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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2008
Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Andover, MA (US);
Joan M. Dimicco, Brookline, MA (US);
Casey Dugan, Medford, MA (US);
Werner Geyer, Boston, MA (US);
Jodi M. Large, Warwick, RI (US);
David R. Millen, Boxford, MA (US);
Michael Muller, Medford, MA (US);
Elizabeth A. Brownholtz, Andover, MA (US);
Joan M. DiMicco, Brookline, MA (US);
Casey Dugan, Medford, MA (US);
Werner Geyer, Boston, MA (US);
Jodi M. Large, Warwick, RI (US);
David R. Millen, Boxford, MA (US);
Michael Muller, Medford, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social networking and provide a method, system and computer program product for site-wide recent action management in a social network. In an embodiment of the invention, a social networking data processing system can be provided. The system can include a social networking application executing in a host server and generating different page views for different users of the social networking application. The system also can include a data store of recent actions for different ones of the users. Finally the system can include a site-wide navigation element displayed in each of the page views for each of the users irrespective of the page view and whether or not the page view is a home page or profile page. In particular, the element can include user links to different profile pages for different users with recent actions.