Systems and methods for generating a social timeline

• US 20070214141A1
• Filed: 12/26/2006
• Published: 09/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sittig, Aaron, Zuckerberg, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 7,725,492 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2477 Temporal data queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/288 Entity relationship models
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• 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 system, method, and computer program for generating a social timeline is provided. A plurality of data items associated with at least one relationship between users associated with a social network is received, each data item having an associated time. The data items are ordered according to the at least one relationship. A social timeline is generated according to the ordered data items.

Claims

1. A method for generating a social timeline, comprising:

receiving a plurality of data items associated with at least one relationship between users associated with a social network, each data item having an associated time;

ordering the data items according to the associated time; and

generating a social timeline according to the ordered data items.

2. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising displaying the social timeline.

3. The method recited in claim 2, wherein the social timeline is displayed according to privacy settings selected by a user associated with the social timeline.

4. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising allowing the users to edit the social timeline.

5. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising generating stories for the users based on the social timeline.

6. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the social timeline includes photos of the one or more second users associated with the at least one relationship.

7. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the plurality of data items comprises one or more events associated with the at least one relationship.

8. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the plurality of data items is received via a questionnaire.

9. A system for generating a social timeline, comprising:

a communications interface configured to receive a plurality of data items associated with at least one relationship between users associated with a social network, each data item having an associated time;

a social timeline module configured to order the data items according to the associated time and to generate a social timeline according to the ordered data items.

10. The system recited in claim 9, further comprising a display module configured to generate a display of the social timeline.

11. The system recited in claim 10, wherein the social timeline is displayed according to privacy settings selected by a user associated with the social timeline.

12. The system recited in claim 9, wherein the social timeline module is further configured to allow the users to edit the social timeline.

13. The system recited in claim 9, wherein the social timeline module is further configured to generate stories for the users based on the social timeline.

14. The system recited in claim 9, wherein the social timeline includes photos associated with the at least one relationship.

15. The system recited in claim 9, wherein the plurality of data items comprises one or more events associated with the at least one relationship.

16. The system recited in claim 9, wherein the plurality of data items is received via a questionnaire.

17. A computer readable medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor for performing a method for generating a social timeline, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of data items associated with at least one relationship between users associated with a social network, each data item having an associated time;

ordering the data items according to the associated time; and

generating a social timeline according to the ordered data items.

18. The computer readable medium recited in claim 17, wherein the method further comprises displaying the social timeline.

19. The computer readable medium recited in claim 18, wherein the social timeline is displayed according to privacy settings selected by a user associated with the social timeline.

20. The computer readable medium recited in claim 17, wherein the method further comprises allowing the users to edit the social timeline.

21. The computer readable medium recited in claim 17, wherein the method further comprises generating stories for the users based on the social timeline.

22. The computer readable medium recited in claim 17, wherein the social timeline includes photos of the users associated with the at least one relationship.

23. The computer readable medium recited in claim 17, wherein the plurality of data items comprises one or more events associated with the at least one relationship.

24. The computer readable medium recited in claim 17, wherein the plurality of data items is received via a questionnaire.