Techniques for managing groups on a mobile platform

• US 9,729,555 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2014
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ferguson, David Ross, Sun, Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh, Minh
• Application Number:
  US14/534,100
• Publication Number:
  US 20160057154A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,007 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/104 Grouping of entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Techniques for managing groups on a mobile platform, comprising a mobile groups application. The mobile groups application including a groups management component to manage at least one group for a corresponding social networking application of a social networking system; and a groups rendering component to render a groups user interface (UI) view comprising at least one selectable group user interface element representative of the at least one group, the at least one selectable group UI element comprising a first selectable group UI element, wherein the first selectable group UI element is representative of a first group of the at least one group and the first group comprises at least one group member.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor circuit;

memory operatively coupled to the processor circuit, the memory to store a mobile groups application for execution by the processor circuit, the mobile groups application comprising;

a groups management component to manage at least one group for a corresponding social networking application of a social networking system, to request and receive user groups membership information from the social networking application for one or more groups in the social networking system that a user of mobile groups application is a member of, a group comprising at least one member of the social networking system, the user groups membership information comprising at least one group, and to cache the received user groups membership information locally to the mobile groups application,; and

a groups rendering component to render a groups user interface (UI) view based on the cached user groups membership information comprising at least one selectable group user interface element representative of the at least one group, the at least one selectable group UI element comprising a first selectable group UI element, wherein the first selectable group UI element is representative of a first group of the at least one group and the first group comprises at least one group member.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the mobile groups application further comprises a groups authentication component to authenticate a user based at least partially on user account information representative of a user account for a user, the user account information comprising at least a user authentication identifier.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, the groups management component to receive user groups membership information from the social networking application, the user groups membership information comprising a list of user group information associated with a user profile of the user.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, the groups rendering component to render the groups UI view, in response to a successful authentication of user account information.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one selectable group UI element comprises a second selectable group UI element representative of a second group, the second group having an associated group color selected from a range of colors within at least a portion of a red-green-blue (RGB) color space.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one selectable group UI element comprises a second selectable group UI element representative of a second group, the second group having an associated group color gradient selected from a range of colors within at least a portion of a RGB color space.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the portion of the RGB color space is determined based at least partially on at least one group image associated with the second group.

8. A computer-implemented method comprising:

requesting, by a mobile groups application executing on a client device, user groups membership information from a social networking application of a social networking system for one or more groups in the social networking system that a user of the client device is a member of, a group comprising at least one member of the social networking system;

receiving the user groups membership information from the social networking application, the user groups membership information comprising at least one group;

caching the received user groups membership information on the client device; and

rendering a groups UI view comprising at least one selectable group user interface (UI) element representative of the at least one group based on the cached user groups membership information, the at least one selectable group UI element comprising a first selectable group UI element, wherein the first selectable group UI element represents a first group and the first group comprises at least one group member.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising authenticating the user based at least partially on user account information, the user account information comprising at least a user account identifier.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the groups UI view is rendered, in response to a successful authentication of user account information.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the at least one selectable group UI element comprises a second selectable group UI element representative of a second group, the second group having an associated group color selected from a range of colors within at least a portion of a red-green-blue (RGB) color space.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the at least one selectable group UI element comprises a second selectable group UI element representative of a third group, the second group having an associated group color gradient selected from a range of colors within an entire RGB color space.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, wherein the associated group color gradient is selected from a range of colors within at least a portion of the RGB color space.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 13, wherein the portion of the RGB color space is determined based at least partially on at least one group image associated with the second group.

15. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

request, by a mobile groups application executing on a client device, user groups membership information from a social networking application of a social networking system for one or more groups in the social networking system that a user of the client device is a member of, a group comprising at least one member of the social networking system;

receive the user groups membership information from the social networking application, the user groups membership information comprising at least one group;

cache the received user groups membership information on the client device; and

render a groups UI view comprising at least one selectable group user interface (UI) element representative of the at least one group based on the cached user groups membership information, the at least one selectable group UI element comprising a first selectable group UI element, wherein the first selectable group UI element represents a first group and the first group comprises at least one group member.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the system to authenticate a user based at least partially on user account information, the user account information comprising at least a user account identifier, wherein the groups UI view is rendered, in response to a successful authentication of user account information.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the at least one selectable group UI element comprises a second selectable group UI element representative of a second group, the second group having an associated group color selected from a range of colors within at least a portion of a red-green-blue (RGB) color space.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the at least one selectable group UI element comprises a second selectable group UI element representative of a second group, the second group having an associated group color gradient selected from a range of colors within an entire a RGB color space.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the associated group color gradient is selected from a range of colors within at least a portion of the RGB color space.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the portion of the RGB color space is determined based at least partially on at least one group image associated with the second group.