Privacy model for shared collections of content on a social networking system

US10298618B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FACEBOOK, INC. · US

Inventors

• Jeffrey Andrew Kanter · San Francisco, US
• Robert Michael Baldwin · San Francisco, US
• Paul Francois Carduner · Menlo Park, US
• Sai Wo Li · San Francisco, US
• Paul Tarjan · Palo Alto, US
• Fred Zhao · Menlo Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 5, 2016
• Grant date: May 21, 2019
• Expiry date: Dec 5, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/10
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A social networking system user creates an album including a shared collection of content (a “shared album”) and associates a privacy model with the shared album. The privacy model specifies additional users of the social networking system authorized to access content items in the shared album and specifies types of actions users authorized to access content items in the shared album are permitted to perform to content items in the shared album. Notifications describing actions associated with content items in a shared album may be presented to users authorized to access the shared album. The social networking system may prompt a user to create a shared album containing based on actions performed by the user or performed by connected to the user.