DISPLAYING AGGREGATED NEWS TICKER CONTENT IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- receiving, at a social networking system, a request from a target user for news ticker content from a target user;
identifying candidate stories, each candidate story associated with an acting user connected to the target user and describing an action performed by the acting user;
selecting a subset of the candidate stories, each candidate story in the subset of candidate stories associated with a common acting user;
generating an aggregated representation of the subset of the candidate stories, the aggregated representation identifying the common acting user and including information describing one or more actions associated with one or more candidate stories in the subset of the candidate stories; and
presenting the aggregated representation of the candidate stories in the news ticker content.
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Abstract
A social networking system displays stories describing actions to a user in a news ticker. The stories may be selected so that a variety of types of stories, stories associated with a variety of users, or stories associated with a variety of actions are presented via the news ticker. Additionally, stories having a common characteristic, such as being associated with a common user, may be aggregated and a description of the aggregated stories is presented in the news ticker. For example, stories aggregated based on acting user may identify the user common to the stories and a description of the aggregated stories may be displayed. Further, the value to the social networking system of displaying different types of content may be used to modify how different types of content are displayed in the news ticker.
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16 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a social networking system, a request from a target user for news ticker content from a target user; identifying candidate stories, each candidate story associated with an acting user connected to the target user and describing an action performed by the acting user; selecting a subset of the candidate stories, each candidate story in the subset of candidate stories associated with a common acting user; generating an aggregated representation of the subset of the candidate stories, the aggregated representation identifying the common acting user and including information describing one or more actions associated with one or more candidate stories in the subset of the candidate stories; and presenting the aggregated representation of the candidate stories in the news ticker content. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a social networking system, a request for news ticker content from a target user; identifying candidate stories, each candidate story associated with an acting user connected to the target user and describing an action performed by the acting user; selecting a user from the acting users associated with the candidate stories; selecting a subset of the candidate stories associated with the selected user; generating an aggregated representation of the subset of the candidate stories, the aggregated representation identifying the selected user and including information describing candidate stories in the subset of the candidate stories; displaying a representation of the subset of candidate stories in the news ticker. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a social networking system, a request for news ticker content from a target user; identifying candidate stories, each candidate story associated with a story type and an acting user connected to the target user, and describing an action performed by the acting user; selecting a story type associated the candidate stories; selecting a subset of the candidate stories associated with the selected story type; generating an aggregated representation of the subset of the candidate stories, the aggregated representation identifying the selected story type selected user and including information describing candidate stories in the subset of the candidate stories; displaying a representation of the subset of candidate stories in the news ticker. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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