Generating a Consolidated Social Story for a User of a Social Networking System

• US 20110029612A1
• Filed: 10/11/2010
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Adam D'Angelo, Andrew Bosworth, Chris Cox, Ruchi Sanghvi, Ts Ramakrishnan
• Inventors: Sanghvi, Ruchi, Bosworth, Andrew, D'Angelo, Adam, Cox, Chris, Ramakrishnan, TS
• Granted Patent: US 8,521,787 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

To generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a social networking system, at least one action of one or more members of the social networking system is associated with relationship data for the one or more members to produce consolidated data. One or more elements associated with the consolidated data is identified and used to aggregate the consolidated data. Further exemplary methods comprise weighting by affinity the aggregated consolidated data to generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

storing actions performed by one or more users of a social networking system;

accessing relationship data for the one or more users, the relationship data identifying relationships of one or more users with other users of the social networking system;

identifying a stored action, wherein the identified action was performed by a user who has a relationship with a viewing user of the social networking system as identified in the relationship data;

identifying one or more additional actions performed by one or more other users of the social networking system who also have a relationship with the viewing user, wherein the selected action and the one or more additional actions have a common element;

generating a story for the viewing user, wherein the story comprises a description of;

the selected action,

the user who performed the selected action, and

the one or more other users who performed the additional the one or more additional actions; and

sending the story for display to the viewing user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the common element comprises an object in the social networking system that the selected action was performed on.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the common element comprises a type of action of the selected action.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the story describes the one or more other users who performed the additional actions by providing a total number of the one or more other users who performed the additional actions.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the story comprises an image.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the story comprises a selectable link.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the stored action is selected based on the viewing user'"'"'s affinity for the selected action.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the stored action is selected based on the viewing user'"'"'s affinity for the user who performed the selected action.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected action is a change of a user profile.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected action is joining a group.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected action is attending an event.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected action is declaring a relationship with another user.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the story for display to the viewing user comprises including the story in a web page that is transmitted to a computing device of the viewing user.

14. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing computer program code for:

storing actions performed by one or more users of a social networking system;

accessing relationship data for the one or more users, the relationship data identifying relationships of one or more users with other users of the social networking system;

identifying a stored action, wherein the identified action was performed by a user who has a relationship with a viewing user of the social networking system as identified in the relationship data;

identifying one or more additional actions performed by one or more other users of the social networking system who also have a relationship with the viewing user, wherein the selected action and the one or more additional actions have a common element;

generating a story for the viewing user, wherein the story comprises a description of;

the selected action,

the user who performed the selected action, and

the one or more other users who performed the additional the one or more additional actions; and

sending the story for display to the viewing user.