Facebook's Second Patent On News Feed OKed
Facebook has obtained approval of a second patent application related to the news feed, specifically for personalizing the content presented.
The patent okayed November 2 was submitted by Facebook’s intellectual property attorneys at Fenwick & West LLC over four years ago and lists half a dozen inventors: Andrew G. Bosworth, Chris Cox, Ruchi Sanghvi, Thyagarajapuram S. Ramakrishnan and Adam D’Angelo.
The news feed personalization that Facebook now has a patent on involves:
storing actions performed by one or more users of a social network; accessing relationship data for the one or more users, the relationship data specifying relationships between users in the social network; associating at least one action with at least one user to produce consolidated data, wherein the consolidated data for each of a plurality of actions identifies at least an action and a user of the social network who performed the action; identifying one or more elements associated with...
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