Interface for Sharing Posts About a Live Online Event Among Users of a Social Networking System

Patent №

US 8,997,006

Granted

2015-03-31

Filed 2009

Owner

FACEBOOK, INC.

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12646838

An external system (e.g., a website) is associated with an event and includes an interface that allows users to interact with streams of content associated with a social networking system. The interface allows a user to provide posts about the event via the interface, where the posts are displayed in the interface and also in a social networking interface on social networking system in connection with the user and other users associated with that user. The user can view, via the interface on the external system, posts from all users that are provided via the interface (e.g., everyone watching the event), thereby increasing the likelihood that the posts are relevant to the event. The user can also view, via the interface, posts from users associated with the user via the social networking system (e.g., friends of the user), regardless of where those are posted.

PlanningH04L 51/52G06Q 10/10

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.30
Vision0.24
AI hardware0.23
Evolutionary computation0.04
Natural language0.02
Machine learning0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

FACEBOOK, INC.

assignment · 245770353

Assignors

WHITNAH, THOMAS SCOTT, DENG, PETER, STEINBERG, ARIEH, ABRAHAM, LIOR

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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