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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2015
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Philip Anastasios Zigoris, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nipun Mathur, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Robert Kang-Xing Jin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Brian Thomas Boland, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/403 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to sponsored story generation from an organic activity stream in a social networking site. A user wishing to promote an entry from an organic activity stream may, using a sponsor user interface, specify the types of stories to promote to a portion of the home page displayed to a member of a social network.