Adaptive Audiences For Claims In A Social Networking System
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140215578
A social graph may be modeled as a collection of claims. Each claim is associated with an author, an audience, and an assertion about a fact. Probabilistic information may be collected from various sources for a claim, enabling a social networking system to evaluate a truthfulness of the assertion made in the claim. User-declared profile information may be evaluated as claims. A user, entity, or application may make claims about any assertions made in the social networking system.…
Conversion Tracking of Organic Content in a Social Networking System
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140214964
A user posting content to a social networking system provides a conversion definition along with the content. The conversion definition identifies a type of interaction associated with the content, such as type of interaction with the content that the user would like to track. After the content is presented to additional users, the social networking system identifies additional users performing the type of interaction with the content identified by the conversion definition. One or more…
INCORPORATION OF CONTENT FROM AN EXTERNAL FOLLOWED USER WITHIN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140214944
A following user follows a followed user on a third-party application. The followed user may additionally approve the inclusion of content posted by the followed user on the third-party application within an account of any following users on the social networking system. Subsequent postings by the followed user on the third-party application cause the third-party application to notify the social networking system of the posting. The social networking system in turn incorporates the…
PROXY CACHE AGGREGATOR
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140214861
A social data aggregator generates entries of action data describing actions taken by users of a social networking system. The entries are archived in a number of remote data hosts, with a portion of the entries stored in an action cache to expedite retrieval. The action cache is modified to include relevant entries of action data by selecting the most relevant entries from proxy data aggregators, which identify sets of entries from remote data hosts coupled to the proxy data aggregators…
Selecting Social Networking System User Information for Display Via a Timeline Interface
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140214737
The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their…
METHODS FOR ENABLING GIFT CARD TRANSACTIONS
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140214626
One variation of the first method includes: receiving a first gift order from a first sender through a social networking system, the first gift order specifying a recipient, a first merchant, and a first monetary value redeemable through the first merchant; issuing a tangible gift card to the recipient, the gift card linked to a gift account, of the recipient, within the social networking system; receiving a second gift order from a second sender through the social networking system, the…
REAL-TIME FEEDBACK OF ADVERTISEMENT REVIEW
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140214558
As components of an advertisement are received by an online system, the online system determines whether the received components satisfy one or more policies of the online system. If a component does not satisfy a policy of the online system, the user providing the components is notified when the component is provided, allowing the user to modify the component. Additionally, stored data describing previously analyzed components are compared to received components, and the stored data is…
APPROVAL OF ADVERTISEMENTS BASED ON REVIEW OF ADVERTISEMENT COMPONENTS
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140214557
As components of an advertisement are received by an online system, the online system determines whether the received components satisfy one or more policies of the online system. If a component does not satisfy a policy of the online system, the user providing the components is notified when the component is provided, allowing the user to modify the component. Additionally, stored data describing previously analyzed components are compared to received components, and the stored data is…
SPONSORED INTERFACES IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140208234
A sponsored interface of a social networking system includes links to different items accessible in the system, arranged by category. Each of the items is associated with a category from a plurality of categories. The social networking system may enable advertisers to boost the ranking of an item in the interface per user, such as a bookmark in a menu of bookmarks, a notification in a menu of notifications, and/or a message in a menu of messages, based on a fee arrangement. The items in…
IMPOSTER ACCOUNT DETECTION AND REMEDIATION IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140208424
When a request to connected a requesting user to a target user is received by the social networking system, information associated with the requesting user and with users connected to the target user is retrieved. A fraud probability score indicating a probability that the requesting user is impersonating a user connected to the target user is determined based on the information associated with the requesting user and with users connected to the target user. Based on the fraud…
Selecting Configurations for Presentation of Story Units to Social Networking System Users
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140208231
A social networking system selects a configuration for presenting a story unit describing one or more actions performed by one or more social networking system users. In particular, story units having a particular type are presented to social networking system users using different configurations. Interactions between the social networking system users and the story units presented using the different configurations are captured and analyzed. Based on the analysis, a configuration is…
CONVERSION TRACKING FOR INSTALLATION OF APPLICATIONS ON MOBILE DEVICES
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140207900
An application executing on a mobile device, such as an application associated with a social networking system provides a link to install a third-party application. The link may be presented in an advertisement, and the link is used to retrieve data comprising a client application for execution by the mobile device. To track installations, the client application stores an indication that the client application was installed in a shared memory location on the mobile device, as native…
Automatically Providing A Communication Based On Location Information For A User Of A Social Networking System
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140207886
Systems and methods for automatically locating web-based social network members are provided. According to one embodiment, contact content including an associated GPS identifier and status for web-based social network members located at or near the same location automatically appears on a GPS-enabled device. A further exemplary system includes a GPS-enabled device configured to receive a GPS identifier and a status representing a location and a current state for a web-based social…
CONTENT SURFACING BASED ON GEO-SOCIAL FACTORS
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140207866
In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system determines a user's current location, calculates a novelty score for the location representing the user's degree of familiarity, and surfaces content within a geographic and temporal radius based on the novelty score for display to the user.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A WEB-BASED APPLICATION AND A DESKTOP APPLICATION
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140207863
New functionality to be added to a web-based application and a desktop application is expressed as declarative and/or procedural code that a conventional rendering engine of the web-based application and the desktop application can use to directly update the state of the applications. Users need not update client-side components—such as the desktop application and/or any plug-ins used by the browser hosting the web-based application—to take advantage of new types of functionality.
CATEGORIZING STORIES IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM NEWS FEED
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140207860
A social networking system generates stories based on actions taken by entities of the social networking system. The system applies a set of rules to the stories to categorize each story and displays the news feed as multiple sections, each displaying a category of generated stories. A story may be categorized according to its content and/or the user associated with the story. In addition to stories about a user's direct connections, stories may be generated by the user's soft…
SPONSORED RECOMMENDATION IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140207793
A social networking system presents suggestions to a user of a social networking system to use or install one or more applications accessible in the system. The social networking system offers suggestions by ranking candidate applications for a particular user and selecting applications to recommend based on the rankings. Advertisers associated with some applications may bid to boost the rankings of an application, making it more likely to appear for a given user.
GENERATING AND MAINTAINING A LIST OF PRODUCTS DESIRED BY A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140207609
A social networking system associates a wish list with a user's profile on the system. Additional users connected to the user may add products to the user to the user's wish list. The user is notified of products added to its wish list, allowing the user to approve or reject addition of the products to its wish list. Allowing other users to add products to a user's wish list creates a dialog between users around the added products. Users may also comment on products presented via a wish…
SIMPLIFIED CREATION OF ADVERTISEMENTS FOR A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM
Granted: July 24, 2014
Application Number:
20140207585
An advertisement interface presents a single input field for creating advertisements using a social networking system. When input is received via the single input field, the social networking system determines whether the destination identified by the input is internal to or external to the social networking system. Based on the determination of identified destination, a set of options unique to the type of destination is presented. Based on the user's selection of options, an…
Co-Molding Display with Body of Mobile Device
Granted: July 17, 2014
Application Number:
20140200052
Tooling and methods for co-molding a body with two different materials. An internal die assembly comprising at least two parts allows for placement of a component and co-molding of the body around the component and then removal of the internal die assembly without disturbing the body.
