PROVIDING A LOCALITY VIEWPORT THROUGH A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM

• US 20140068459A1
• Filed: 08/28/2012
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Graham, Adrian
• Granted Patent: US 9,449,348 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A method of operation of a social filter system includes: identifying a user with a user account; identifying a socially connected account from the user account, the socially connected account having a social association; selecting a content of interest from a content store of contents of interest based on the social association; and sending the content of interest for displaying on a user device.

Claims

1. A method of operating a social filter system comprising:

identifying a user with a user account;

identifying contents of interest from a content store;

identifying socially connected accounts of the user account from a connectivity store;

generating a content set by filtering the contents of interest based on the socially connected accounts, each instance of the contents of interest excluded when the socially connected accounts do not have a social association with the each instance; and

sending the content set for displaying on a user device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the contents of interest from a content store includes identifying contents of interest within a focal region designation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the contents of interest from a content store includes identifying contents of interest from a category designated by a search box.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

tracking a number of instances of the social association from the socially connected accounts for each instance of the contents of interest; and

sending the number of instances of the social association for displaying on the user device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

tracking a number of instances of the social association from the socially connected accounts for each instance of the contents of interest; and

sorting the content set based on the number of instances of the social association for each instance of the contents of interest.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

tracking a number of instances of the socially connected accounts for each instance of the contents of interest; and

sorting the content set based on the number of instances of the socially connected accounts for each instance of the contents of interest.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a calendar view of the social association of the socially connected accounts; and

sending the calendar view for displaying on the user device.

8. A method of displaying a mobile locality viewport comprising:

identifying a user with a user account;

identifying a socially connected account from the user account, the socially connected account having a social association;

selecting a content of interest from a content store of contents of interest based on the social association; and

sending the content of interest for displaying on a user device.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising sending an icon representation of the socially connected account for displaying on the user device.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising sending the social association for displaying on the user device.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

generating a content page based on the content of interest including the social association and an icon representation of the socially connected account; and

sending the content page for displaying on the user device.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

identifying a further instance of the social association of the socially connected account; and

sending the further instance of the social association for displaying on the user device.

13. A method of displaying a locality viewport comprising:

identifying a user with a user account;

receiving a focal region;

identifying contents of interest from a content store within the focal region;

generating a content set by filtering the contents of interest based on socially connected accounts from the user account, each instance of the contents of interest excluded when the socially connected accounts do not have a social association with the each instance;

generating a visualization of the content set including a pin for each instance of the contents of interest in the content set; and

sending the visualization for displaying on a user device.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving the focal region includes receiving the focal region from a search box term.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein receiving the focal region includes receiving the focal region based on a current location of the user device.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising displaying a friends view showing all instances of the socially connected accounts having an instance of the social association with at least one instance of the contents of interest in the content set.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising displaying a content list view showing the content set within the focal region.

18. A method of displaying a social locality viewport comprising:

identifying a user with a user account;

identifying a content of interest from a content store;

determining socially connected accounts each having at least a social association with the content of interest;

generating an inquiry message pre-populated with a link to the content of interest;

sending the inquiry message to a least one of the socially connected accounts; and

sending the socially connected accounts for displaying on a user device.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

receiving a focal region designation; and

wherein identifying the content of interest includes identifying the content of interest within the focal region designation.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

tracking a number of instances of the social association of each of the socially connected accounts; and

sending the number of instances of the social association for displaying on the user device.

21. A method of operating a social filter system comprising:

identifying a user with a user account;

determining a socially connected account based on the user account, the socially connected account having a social association with a content of interest;

retrieving a media object related to the content of interest; and

sending the media object for displaying on a user device.

22. A social filter system comprising:

an account store for storing a user account;

a connectivity store for determining a socially connected account based on the user account;

a content store for storing a content of interest;

an activity map for storing a social association from the socially connected account with the content of interest; and

a web server for communicating with a user device including sending the social association for displaying on the user device.

23. A method of operating a mobile locality viewport comprising:

identifying a user with a user account;

receiving a user input specifying a focal region on a map;

receiving a content set, each content of interest in the content set having a social association with a socially connected account of the user account and each content of interest within the focal region on the map; and

displaying the content set on a visualization view.