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Tactile interface for social networking system

  • US 9,477,391 B2
  • Filed: 12/13/2011
  • Issued: 10/25/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • selecting a plurality of stories for display to a viewing user, each of the stories associated with a given time period and including a corresponding set of content items generated by one or more users connected to the viewing user within a social networking system;

    displaying at least a first story and a second story of the plurality of stories concurrently on a touch display screen of a mobile device in a vertically-scrollable feed arranged in a vertical list according to the associated time periods, wherein the first story is associated with a plurality of first content items and the second story is associated with a plurality of second content items;

    displaying, concurrently on the touch display screen, a subset of the plurality of first content items with the first story and a subset of the plurality of second content items with the second story, the displayed first content items arranged in a horizontally-scrollable list of the first story and the displayed second content items arranged in a horizontally-scrollable list of the second story, a content item of the first set of content items and the second set of content items being cropped at an edge of the touch display screen and providing an ability to scroll horizontally in a direction associated with the cropped content item in the first story and the second story;

    receiving a horizontal scrolling user input comprising a horizontal swipe over the first set of content items on the touch display screen of the mobile device; and

    scrolling only the first set of content items on the touch display screen horizontally without moving the second set of content items of the second story in the vertically-scrollable feed.

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