Social cover feed interface

US10249007B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FACEBOOK, INC. · US

Inventors

• Neel Ishwar Murarka · Portola Valley, US
• Niv Seker · San Francisco, US
• Adam Mosseri · San Francisco, US
• Francis Luu · San Francisco, US
• Carl Philip Sjogreen · San Francisco, US
• Cory Rudolph Ondrejka · Pleasant Hill, US
• Bret Steven Taylor · Los Gatos, US
• Luke St. Clair · Redmond, US
• Daniel C. Weaver · Boulder, US
• Joshua Van Dyke Watzman · Mountain View, US
• Daniel Schafer · Dublin, IE
• William Samuel Bailey · San Francisco, US
• Philip Fung · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 25, 2013
• Grant date: Apr 2, 2019
• Expiry date: Jan 18, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0241
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In one embodiment, user information for a user of a social-networking system is retrieved. Device information is determined for a device associated with the user. Based on the device information or the user information, content associated with the user is retrieved. Using the retrieved content, a content board is composed for use in a cover feed displayed on the device The content board may comprise a background image. Finally, the content board is sent to the device. In one embodiment, updated information for content associated with the user is retrieved. The updated information may be associated with content that was included in a previously-provided content board. Using the updated information, an update to the previously-provided content boards is composed. Finally, the updates may be sent to the previously-provided content boards to the device.