In-context control of feed privacy settings

• US 10,437,966 B1
• Filed: 01/12/2018
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Quach, Daniel, Lewis, Justin
• Primary Examiner(s): Sholeman, Abu S
• Application Number:
  US15/870,345
• Time in Patent Office: 634 Days
• Field of Search: 726 26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing feed privacy settings in-context with an activity that will be affected by the feed privacy setting. An example method comprising: receiving an indication of an occurrence of an activity in a content sharing platform, the occurrence of the activity corresponding to a feed item of a first feed item type; requesting user input via a user interface that simultaneously presents the feed item of the first feed item type and a privacy setting selection for the first feed item type, wherein the user input pertains to the privacy setting selection; receiving the privacy setting selection for the first feed item type while the user interface presents the feed item; and in response to receiving the privacy setting selection, updating a privacy setting for multiple feed items comprising the feed item and a subsequent feed item of the first feed item type.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processing device, an indication of an occurrence of an activity in a content sharing platform, the occurrence of the activity corresponding to a feed item of a first feed item type;

determining, by a processing device, a privacy setting for the first feed item type;

providing, by the processing device, a user interface that simultaneously presents the feed item of the first feed item type and the determined privacy setting for the first feed item type;

receiving, by the processing device, user input indicating a privacy setting selection corresponding to the determined privacy setting for the first feed item type while the user interface presents the feed item;

in response to the privacy setting selection, updating, by the processing device, the privacy setting for multiple feed items comprising the feed item and a subsequent feed item of the first feed item type; and

requesting an update to the privacy setting for the first feed item type in response to determining that a threshold period of time has passed since receiving the privacy setting selection for the first feed item type.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the activity comprises at least one of liking an object, subscribing to a content channel, publishing an object, or adding an object to a playlist.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to the user input indicating a private setting for the feed item of the first feed item type, maintaining the feed item as private.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the privacy setting selection for the first feed item type has been previously received.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining that the user input pertaining to the privacy setting selection indicates a private setting for the first feed item type.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple feed items comprise a public feed item to be shared with other users of the content sharing platform and a private feed item that is not shared with the other users.

7. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed, cause a processing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving an indication of an occurrence of an activity in a content sharing platform, the occurrence of the activity corresponding to a feed item of a first feed item type;

determining, by a processing device, a privacy setting for the feed item type;

providing a user interface that simultaneously presents the feed item of the first feed item type and the determined privacy setting for the first feed item type;

receiving user input indicating a privacy setting selection corresponding to the determined privacy setting for the first feed item type while the user interface presents the feed item;

in response to the privacy setting selection, updating the privacy setting for multiple feed items comprising the feed item and a subsequent feed item of the first feed item type; and

requesting an update to the privacy setting for the first feed item type responsive to determining that a threshold period of time has passed since receiving the privacy setting selection for the first feed item type.

8. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the activity comprises at least one of liking an object, subscribing to a content channel, publishing an object, or adding an object to a playlist.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

responsive to the user input indicating a private setting for the feed items of the first feed item type, maintaining the feed item as private.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that the privacy setting selection for the first feed item type has been previously received.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that the user input pertaining to the privacy setting selection indicates a private setting for the first feed item type.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the multiple feed items comprise a public feed item to be shared with other users of the content sharing platform and a private feed item that is not shared with the other users.

13. A computer system comprising:

a memory;

a processing device coupled to the memory, wherein the processing device is to;

receive an indication of an occurrence of an activity in a content sharing platform, the occurrence of the activity corresponding to a feed item of a first feed item type;

determine a privacy setting for the feed item type;

provide a user interface that simultaneously presents the feed item of the first feed item type and the determined privacy setting for the first feed item type;

receive user input indicating a privacy setting selection corresponding to the determined privacy setting for the first feed item type while the user interface presents the feed item;

in response to the privacy setting selection, update the privacy setting for multiple feed items comprising the feed item and a subsequent feed item of the first feed item type; and

request an update to the privacy setting for the first feed item type responsive to a determination that a threshold period of time has passed since receipt of the privacy setting selection for the first feed item type.

14. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the activity comprises at least one of liking an object, subscribing to a content channel, publishing an object, or adding an object to a playlist.

15. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the processing device is further to:

responsive to the user input indicating a private setting for the multiple feed items of the first feed item type, maintain the multiple feed items as private.

16. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the processing device is further to:

determine that the user input pertaining to the privacy setting selection indicates a private setting for the first feed item type.