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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2012
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Dennis Troper, Los Altos, CA (US);
Karthik Murili Nagaraj, Livermore, CA (US);
Pavan Desikan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Besbris, Cupertino, CA (US);
Amar Gandhi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Nestler, Menlo Park, CA (US);
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, a method is provided. The method includes providing a social network on one or more servers connected to the internet. The method includes identifying an instance where a user takes action to add the social networking account of the entity to a social networking account of the user, and in response to the identification of the user's action, enabling identification of and access to the user by the entity. The method includes enabling the social networking account of the entity to post information to a stream of the user that took action to add the social networking account of the entity to the social networking account of the user. The method further includes presenting a stream view of one or more postings to the user, the one or more postings being from the groups that the user was associated to by the entity.