ÜBERFEED

• US 20120311033A1
• Filed: 06/03/2011
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Tseng, Erick
• Granted Patent: US 9,183,573 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

In one embodiment, a computing device may collect a plurality of information items of a plurality of types relevant to a user; rank the plurality of information items based on their respective degrees of relevance to the user; construct an information feed that includes the plurality of information items in an order of their respective ranks; and send the information feed to a user device associated with the user for presentation of the plurality of information items to the user in the order of their respective ranks.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by one or more computing devices,

collecting a plurality of information items of a plurality of types relevant to a user;

ranking the plurality of information items based on their respective degrees of relevance to the user;

constructing an information feed that includes the plurality of information items in an order of their respective ranks; and

sending the information feed to a user device associated with the user for presentation of the plurality of information items to the user in the order of their respective ranks.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of information items comprise one or more deterministic information items and one or more non-deterministic information items.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the user is a member of a social-networking system; and

the plurality of information items are ranked based on a graph associated with the social-networking system, which represents information contained in the social-networking system.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising boosting one or more ranks of one or more information items of the plurality of information items.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more information items whose ranks are boosted are one or more non-deterministic information items.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more information items whose ranks are boosted are each associated with a time that is close to a current time when the plurality of information items are ranked.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more information items whose ranks are boosted are each associated with a location that is near to a current location of the user.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising excluding from the information feed one or more information items relevant to the user but of a type specified by the user.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising sending the one or more information items excluded from the information feed to the user device, separate from the information feed, for presentation to the user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of information items are collected from a plurality of information sources.

11. A system comprising:

a memory comprising instructions executable by one or more processors; and

the one or more processors coupled to the memory and operable to execute the instructions, the one or more processors being operable when executing the instructions to;

collect a plurality of information items of a plurality of types relevant to a user;

rank the plurality of information items based on their respective degrees of relevance to the user;

construct an information feed that includes the plurality of information items in an order of their respective ranks; and

send the information feed to a user device associated with the user for presentation of the plurality of information items to the user in the order of their respective ranks.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the plurality of information items comprise one or more deterministic information items and one or more non-deterministic information items.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein:

the user is a member of a social-networking system; and

the plurality of information items are ranked based on a graph associated with the social-networking system, which represents information contained in the social-networking system.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are further operable when executing the instructions to boost one or more ranks of one or more information items of the plurality of information items.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more information items whose ranks are boosted are one or more non-deterministic information items.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more information items whose ranks are boosted are each associated with a time that is close to a current time when the plurality of information items are ranked.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more information items whose ranks are boosted are each associated with a location that is near to a current location of the user.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are further operable when executing the instructions to exclude from the information feed one or more information items relevant to the user but of a type specified by the user.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the one or more processors are further operable when executing the instructions to send the one or more information items excluded from the information feed to the user device, separate from the information feed, for presentation to the user.

20. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software operable when executed by one or more computer systems to:

collect a plurality of information items of a plurality of types relevant to a user;

rank the plurality of information items based on their respective degrees of relevance to the user;

construct an information feed that includes the plurality of information items in an order of their respective ranks; and

send the information feed to a user device associated with the user for presentation of the plurality of information items to the user in the order of their respective ranks.