Socialized dash

US10761672B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FACEBOOK, INC. · US

Inventors

• Neel Ishwar Murarka · Portola Valley, US
• Philip Fung · Sunnyvale, US
• Niv Seker · San Francisco, US
• Adam Mosseri · San Francisco, US
• Francis Luu · San Francisco, US
• Carl Phillip Sjogreen · San Francisco, US
• Cory Rudolph Ondrejka · Pleasant Hill, US
• Bret Steven Taylor · Los Gatos, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 28, 2012
• Grant date: Sep 1, 2020
• Expiry date: Dec 28, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/01
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes determining whether a user of the mobile computing device is currently actively using an application on the mobile computing device; and if the user is not currently actively using an application on the mobile computing device, then automatically and without user input providing for display to the user on the mobile computing device a user interface (UI) including a number of interactive elements that each correspond to one of a number of social-networking functionalities provided at least in part by a social-networking system remote from the mobile computing device.