Selecting social networking system user information for display via a timeline interface

US10242067B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FACEBOOK, INC. · US

Inventors

• Serkan Piantino · New York, US
• Ryan Case · Palo Alto, US
• Stanislav Funiak · Lawrence, US
• Daniel Klatzko Gibson · Palo Alto, US
• Jeff Huang · Mountain View, US
• Ryan David Mack · Waltham, US
• Paul M. McDonald · Palo Alto, US
• Arun Vijayvergiya · New York, US
• Joshua Stephen Wiseman · San Francisco, US
• Zizhuang Yang · Mountain View, US
• Steven E. Young · Mountain View, US
• Raylene Kay Yung · San Francisco, US
• Mark E. Zuckerberg · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 26, 2014
• Grant date: Mar 26, 2019
• Expiry date: Feb 22, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/01
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.