Communicating plans for users of a social networking system

• US 10,614,425 B2
• Filed: 05/01/2017
• Issued: 04/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/02/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Deng, Peter, Marlette, Scott, Laverdet, Marcel, Zuckerberg, Mark E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trapanese, William C
• Application Number:
  US15/583,830
• Publication Number:
  US 20170236098A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,072 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Exemplary systems and methods for calendaring are provided. Exemplary systems include a natural language receiving component configured to receive a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, a calendar generation engine configured to create a calendar entry based on the natural language entry, a social network database configured for accessing and querying by the calendar generation engine, a privacy component configured to receive a privacy setting indicating a person who is approved to view the calendar entry, and a display module configured to display the calendar entry on a calendar. Exemplary methods include receiving a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, creating a calendar entry, and displaying the calendar entry.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

maintaining in a social networking system profiles for a plurality of users each having an account on the social networking system that stores interests identified for each of the users;

receiving in a natural language entry user interface an entry for a first user of the plurality of users, the received entry indicating an intent by the first user to participate in an event;

determining by the social networking system that the event indicated in the entry is related to one or more of the interests stored in the account of the first user; and

suggesting, by the social networking system for display to the first user in the natural language entry user interface, one or more suggested events for scheduling associated with the one or more stored interests, wherein the relation between the event indicated in the entry and the one or more of the stored interests indicates that the user may have a desire to schedule the one or more suggested events;

receiving, by the social networking system, from the first user, a selection of a suggested event of the one or more suggested events;

publishing, using the social networking system, a social media post in association with the first user and the suggested event to a feed of a second user of the plurality of users;

receiving, from the second user, a comment on the social media post of the feed; and

publishing, as a reply to the social media post, the comment to at least one additional feed.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving via the natural language interface selection of a database to use to identify the one or more suggested events.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving via the natural language interface selection of an application to use to identify the one or more suggested events.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating one or more calendar entries corresponding to the one or more suggested events.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the created one or more calendar entries correspond to an associated calendar type.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more calendar entries corresponding to the one or more suggested events include information about the one or more events that allow the user to accept to schedule the event on a calendar associated with the user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more suggested events are based on a geographic location of the user.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising, upon acceptance of the one or more suggested events, generating one or more stories to display in a newsfeed including the accepted one or more events.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising providing for display to one or more connections of the user the generated one or more stories.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving in the entry further comprises determining from the entry an event type.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium having embedded thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor for performing a method, the method comprising:

maintaining in a social networking system profiles for a plurality of users each having an account on the social networking system that stores interests identified for each of the users;

receiving in a natural language entry user interface an entry for a first user of the plurality of users, the received entry indicating an intent by the first user to participate in an event;

determining by the social networking system that the event indicated in the entry is related to one or more of the interests stored in the account of the first user; and

suggesting, by the social networking system for display to the first user in the natural language entry user interface, one or more suggested events for scheduling associated with the one or more stored interests, wherein the relation between the event indicated in the entry and the one or more of the stored interests indicates that the user may have a desire to schedule the one or more suggested events;

receiving, by the social networking system, from the first user, a selection of a suggested event of the one or more suggested events;

publishing, using the social networking system, a social media post in association with the first user and the suggested event to a feed of a second user of the plurality of users;

receiving, from the second user, a comment on the social media post of the feed; and

publishing, as a reply to the social media post, the comment to at least one additional feed.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving via the natural language interface selection of a database to use to identify the one or more suggested events.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving via the natural language interface selection of an application to use to identify the one or more suggested events.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising:

creating one or more calendar entries corresponding to the one or more suggested events.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the created one or more calendar entries correspond to an associated calendar type.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the one or more calendar entries corresponding to the one or more suggested events include information about the one or more events that allow the user to accept to schedule the event on a calendar associated with the user.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein the one or more suggested events are based on a geographic location of the user.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, further comprising, upon acceptance of the one or more suggested events, generating one or more stories to display in a newsfeed including the accepted one or more events.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18, further comprising providing for display to one or more connections of the user the generated one or more stories.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11, wherein receiving in the entry further comprises determining from the entry an event type.