Display showing intersection between users of a social networking system

• US 9,235,863 B2
• Filed: 04/15/2011
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kao, Wayne
• Primary Examiner(s): Chuang, Jessica
• Application Number:
  US13/087,672
• Publication Number:
  US 20120266081A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,733 Days
• Field of Search: 715/751
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A social networking system generates a friendship page that displays social graph data common to two or more social networking system users. A user requests the page by identifying two or more social networking system. The social networking system obtains social graph data common to the identified social networking system users and generates a friendship page containing that social graph data. The obtained social graph data may include interactions between each of the identified user and/or social networking system objects with which each of the identified users has interacted. Examples of the types of social graph data may include photos, videos, communications, content items, events, locations, friends, family members, biographical data, and location data. The friendship page may be displayed to the requesting user in a web browser or in a native application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

maintaining in a data store social information associated with a plurality of users of a social networking system, a plurality of actions performed by the users, and a plurality of social networking system objects associated with one or more of the actions;

receiving, from a device associated with a viewing user, a request for a page, the request identifying two or more users of the social networking system, the requested page comprising one or more social networking system objects upon which, for each object, an action was performed by each of the identified social networking system users; and

responsive to receiving the request for the page;

identifying one or more social networking system objects wherein, for each identified object, an action was performed by each of the identified users with respect to the social networking system object;

determining an order for the identified social networking system objects;

identifying a set of images, each image from the set of images associated with each of the identified users;

selecting an image from the set of images based on a relevancy of the image to all of the identified users, wherein the relevancy of the image decreases when the image is associated with additional users other than the identified users;

generating the requested page, the generated page including information associated with the identified social networking system objects, the actions performed on each of the social networking system objects by each of the identified users, the information ordered within the generated page based on the determined order for the identified social networking system objects, and the selected image; and

sending the generated page to the device associated with the viewing user for display.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining, from the data store, social information associated with the performed actions;

wherein the page further contains the obtained social information associated with the performed actions.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein a performed action comprises an interaction associated with each of the identified users.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein obtaining social information associated with the performed actions comprises obtaining stored communications associated with all the identified users.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein a performed action comprises an interaction by an identified user with the identified object.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identified social networking system object comprises an image in which each of the identified users is tagged.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving at least one social networking system privacy rule for at least one identified user;

wherein generating the requested page comprises restricting the obtained social information based on the at least one retrieved privacy rule.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the generated page comprises a web page viewable with a web browser.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the page comprises a page viewable within a native application.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identified social networking system object comprises a video in which each of the identified users is tagged.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identified social networking system object comprises an event attended by all the identified users.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identified social networking system object comprises a social networking system user with which all the identified users have interacted.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein obtaining social information associated with the identified object comprises obtaining biographical information associated with the social networking system user.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identified social networking system object comprises a content item with which all the identified users have interacted.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein social information contained within the page is ordered according to recency.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein social information contained within the page is ordered according to relevancy.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein selecting the image based on the relevancy comprises selecting the image based on social networking system users identified in the image and actions taken by social networking system users associated with the image.

18. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions configured to, when executed by a computer processor, cause the processor to:

maintain in a data store social information associated with a plurality of users of a social networking system, a plurality of actions performed by the users, and a plurality of social networking system objects associated with one or more of the actions;

receive, from a device associated with a viewing user, a request for a page, the request identifying two or more users of the social networking system, the requested page comprising one or more social networking system objects upon which, for each object, an action was performed by each of the identified social networking system users; and

responsive to receiving the request for the page;

identify one or more social networking system objects wherein, for each identified object, an action was performed by each of the identified users with respect to the social networking system object;

determine an order for the identified social networking system objects;

identify a set of images, each image from the set of images associated with each of the identified users;

select an image from the set of images based on a relevancy of the image to all of the identified users, wherein the relevancy of the image decreases when the image is associated with additional users other than the identified users;

generate the requested page, the generated page including information associated with the identified social networking system objects, the actions performed on each of the social networking system objects by each of the identified users, the information ordered within the generated page based on the determined order for the identified social networking system objects, and the selected image; and

send the generated page to the device associated with the viewing user for display.

19. A system comprising:

a computer processor; and

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store computer executable instructions configured to, when executed by the computer processor, cause the processor to;

maintain in a data store social information associated with a plurality of users of a social networking system, a plurality of actions performed by the users, and a plurality of social networking system objects associated with one or more of the actions;

receive, from a device associated with a viewing user, a request for a page, the request identifying two or more users of the social networking system, the requested page comprising one or more social networking system objects upon which, for each object, an action was performed by each of the identified social networking system users; and

responsive to receiving the request for the page;

identify one or more social networking system objects wherein, for each identified object, an action was performed by each of the identified users with respect to the social networking system object;

determine an order for the identified social networking system objects;

identify a set of images, each image from the set of images associated with each of the identified users;

select an image from the set of images based on a relevancy of the image to all of the identified users, wherein the relevancy of the image decreases when the image is associated with additional users other than the identified users;

generate the requested page, the generated page including information associated with the identified social networking system objects, the actions performed on each of the social networking system objects by each of the identified users, the information ordered within the generated page based on the determined order for the identified social networking system objects, and the selected image; and

send the generated page to the device associated with the viewing user for display.