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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 14, 2015
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Lunt, Mountain View, CA (US);

Nicholas Galbreath, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeffrey Winner, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/2235 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30554 (2013.01); G06F 17/30595 (2013.01); G06F 17/30696 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/30958 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0275 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); G06F 17/2247 (2013.01); G06F 17/3089 (2013.01);
Abstract

In particular embodiments, a computing system may receive a search query from a first user of an online social network, identify one or more second users of the online social network that match the search query, where each identified second user may have a visibility setting specifying which other users of the online social network can view information from the online social network associated with the second user, and send to the first user information associated with each second user having a relationship within the online social network to the first user such that the visibility setting of the second user specifies that the first user can view the information associated with the second user.


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