Enabling delayed interactions with content items presented by a social networking system

US10303330B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FACEBOOK, INC. · US

Inventors

• Jane Leibrock · San Francisco, US
• Loren Alfred Cheng · Mountain View, US
• Matthew Brown · San Francisco, US
• Jessica Gronski · San Francisco, US
• Marc Horowitz · Cambridge, US
• William Jacobs · Mountain View, US
• Zhengzheng Pan · San Francisco, US
• Xiao Ou Wang · San Francisco, US
• Joshua Van Dyke Watzman · Mountain View, US
• Luke Woods · Chicago, US
• Rachel Margaret Wong · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 2016
• Grant date: May 28, 2019
• Expiry date: Jun 12, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/02
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

When a user sees a content item presented by a social networking system, the user may select an option to save the content item. The saved content item may be reinserted in a newsfeed presented to the user, integrated into collections, archived, used for notifications to the user, or otherwise subsequently presented to the user. A plug-in may be used to save content items accessed through websites external to the social networking system. As privacy settings associated with a saved content item are modified, the modified privacy settings are applied to the saved content item, which may prevent the user saving the content item from subsequently viewing the saved content item.