Identifying and providing physical social actions to a social networking system

US9621602B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FACEBOOK, INC. · US

Inventors

• Timothy Cameron Ryan · Medford, US
• Jialiya Huang · Needham, US
• Paul Henry Booth · Needham, US
• Jonathan Andrew McKay · San Diego, US
• Seungwhan Moon · Seattle, US
• Margaret-Ann Julia Seger · Needham, US
• Amon Millner · Cambridge, US
• Peter Xiu Deng · Mountain View, US
• Christopher John Marra · Somerville, US
• Scott Andrew Thomson · San Francisco, US
• Gregory Matthew Marra · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 26, 2013
• Grant date: Apr 11, 2017
• Expiry date: May 26, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W4/80
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Physical social actions are conveniently detected, characterized, and provided to a social networking system. This improves the user experience of the social networking system by more thoroughly recording the social actions of users occurring outside a social graph. This has the effect of extending an open social graph, which typically refers to social actions taken outside the social networking system but within a computer network, to physical social actions. By providing characterized physical social actions to the social networking system, the open social graph is extended to include physical social actions.