Profile Page with Biographical Summary for Social Networking System User

• US 20150288782A1
• Filed: 06/17/2015
• Published: 10/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2010
• 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 Xiu, Flynn, William Joseph III, Wiseman, Joshua, Zuckerberg, Mark E., Cahill, Matthew Joseph
• Granted Patent: US 10,582,006 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• 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

A social networking system provides a short, unbiased biographical summary for a user of the social networking system. The short biography includes a few relevant biographical information items selected from the user'"'"'s profile and is displayed on the profile page. The short biography may be displayed with a set of photographs also selected from the profile for their relevance. Relevance may be based on various information including temporal relevance and relevance to the viewing user. Display of the short biography allows a viewer to easily find current biographical information about the user in an abbreviated format.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

maintaining profile stores of a subject user of a social networking system, the profile stores including photographs of the subject user, the photographs comprising a temporal element;

selecting two or more most temporally relevant photographs based at least in part on the temporal element associated with the two or more photographs;

concatenating the two or more selected most temporally relevant photographs; and

transmitting a page of the social networking system including the concatenated photographs of the subject user to the viewing user for display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the temporal relevance of the selected photographs is diminished based on a decay factor.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting the two or more most temporally relevant photographs is based in part on a last action performed on the photograph in the social networking system.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the last action performed on the photograph is selected from a post of the photograph, a tag on the photograph, and a comment added to the photograph.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the concatenated photographs include at least one default photograph.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one default photograph is specific to the subject user.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one default photograph comprises the subject user'"'"'s profile photograph.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

determining that a photograph of the subject user has a greater relevance than the one or more default photographs; and

replacing the one or more default photographs with the photograph of greater relevance.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a profile page for the subject user for viewing by the viewing user, the profile page comprising the concatenated photographs and a short biography for display to the second user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the method is performed for a plurality of users of the social networking system.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the page of the social networking system transmitted to the viewing user for display is a profile page of the subject user.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the concatenated photographs are displayed at the top of the profile page of the subject user.

13. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions for performing steps comprising:

maintaining profile stores of a subject user of a social networking system, the profile stores including photographs of the subject user, the photographs comprising a temporal element;

selecting two or more most temporally relevant photographs based at least in part on the temporal element associated with the two or more photographs;

concatenating the two or more selected most temporally relevant photographs; and

transmitting a page of the social networking system including the concatenated photographs of the subject user to the viewing user for display.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the temporal relevance of the selected photographs is diminished based on a decay factor.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the selecting the two or more most temporally relevant photographs is based in part on a last action performed on the photograph in the social networking system.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the concatenated photographs include at least one default photograph.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the at least one default photograph comprises the subject user'"'"'s profile photograph.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the instructions further comprise:

determining that a photograph of the subject user has a greater relevance than the one or more default photographs; and

replacing the one or more default photographs with the photograph of greater relevance.

19. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the instructions further comprise generating a profile page for the subject user for viewing by the viewing user, the profile page comprising the concatenated photographs and a short biography for display to the second user.

20. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the page of the social networking system transmitted to the viewing user for display is a profile page of the subject user.