Defining future plans in connection with objects in a social networking system

US9836721B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FACEBOOK, INC. · US

Inventors

• Justin Alexander Shaffer · Menlo Park, US
• Ross David Bayer · Mountain View, US
• Thomas Andrew Watson · San Francisco, US
• Srinivas P. Narayanan · San Francisco, US
• Devin Naquin · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 21, 2011
• Grant date: Dec 5, 2017
• Expiry date: Nov 21, 2031

Classification

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

Abstract

A social networking system that provides a system allowing users of the social networking system to define future plans, whereby users of the social networking system who view the plan are permitted to add themselves to the plan independent of whether they were explicitly specified as attendees of the plan. The social networking system is capable of auto-filling some missing plan details through inference. The social networking system is also capable of merging similar plans together.