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Aggregating social networking system user information for display via stories

  • US 10,083,239 B2
  • Filed: 03/10/2017
  • Issued: 09/25/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • determining one or more story generators for a viewing user of a social networking system;

    accessing a plurality of narrative data items comprising data stored within the social networking system related to the viewing user or a user connected to the viewing user in the social networking system;

    selecting one or more of the narrative data items based on a relevance of each of the narrative data items to the viewing user;

    generating a plurality of candidate stories from the narrative data items using the one or more story generators, each of the plurality of candidate stories being associated with a story type of a plurality of story types, where two or more candidate stories of the plurality of candidate stories are associated with a same narrative data item;

    identifying the two or more candidate stories that are associated with the same narrative data item;

    responsive to the identifying, removing a subset of the two or more candidate stories from the plurality of candidate stories;

    selecting one or more of the plurality of candidate stories as selected stories for the viewing user; and

    sending a displayable representation of the selected stories to a client device for display to the viewing user.

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