Applying user-specified permissions to distribution of content items to social networking system users

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10361875-B2
Application number	US-201715713388-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2017
Priority date	Dec 12, 2013
Publication date	Jul 23, 2019
Grant date	Jul 23, 2019

Abstract

A social networking system user identifies one or more social networking system users authorized to present content items to the user via the social networking system (“authorized users”). When an additional user requests presentation of a content item to the user, the social networking system determines if the additional user is an authorized user. If the additional user is an authorized user, the content item is presented to the user. However, if the additional user is not an authorized user, the social networking system identifies the additional user to the user along with a request to identify the additional user as an authorized user. If the user identifies the additional user as an authorized user in response to the request, the content item is presented to the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a request, from a user of a networking system, to send a content item to one or more additional users via the networking system;
sending the content item to one or more client devices for presentation to the one or more additional users;
determining a status describing an interaction with the content item by each of the one or more additional users;
generating an interface identifying each of the one or more additional users and the determined status describing each additional user's interaction with the content item, the generating comprising:
identifying a level of interaction between the user and each of the one or more additional users, the level of interaction describing a frequency with which the user has previously interacted with each additional user, the interaction comprising at least one of: the user sending a message to an additional user, the user reading a message from an additional user, and the user viewing content associated with an additional user;
determining an order of the one or more additional users based on the level of interaction between the user and each additional user; and
presenting user interface elements of the interface identifying the one or more additional users in the determined order;

communicating the generated interface to a client device associated with the user for presentation to the user;
modifying a status describing interaction with the content item by an additional user in response to the networking system receiving an interaction with the content item by the additional user;
modifying the generated interface to indicate the modified status;
communicating the modified interface to the client device for presentation to the user;
receiving from the one or more additional users of the social networking system a selection of one or more content items to be provided to the client device associated with the user for presentation to the user;
determining whether the one or more additional users are authorized to send the one or more content items to the user by comparing user identifiers associated with the one or more additional users to user identifiers of authorized users associated with the user, the one or more content items selected by the one or more additional users, the authorized users authorized to send content items to the user on the social networking system;
responsive to determining that an additional user of the one or more additional users is not authorized to send a content item of the one or more content items selected by the one or more additional users to the user:
withholding presentation of the content item to the user;
generating a pending message interface identifying the additional user and including an option to authorize the additional user within a specified time interval by adding the user identifiers associated with the additional user to the user identifiers of authorized users associated with the user; and
communicating the generated pending message interface to the client device associated with the user for presentation to the user; and

responsive to the user authorizing the additional user via the pending message interface within the specified time interval, providing the content item to the client device associated with the user for presentation to the user.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the generating of the interface identifying each of the one or more additional users and the determined status describing each additional user's interaction with the content item further comprises:
generating one or more groups each including one or more additional users associated with a common determined status.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the generating of the interface identifying each of the one or more additional users and the determined status describing each additional user's interaction with the content item further comprises:
ranking the one or more groups based at least in part on a level of interaction with the content item associated with the common determined status associated with each of the one or more groups.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the generating of the interface identifying each of the one or more additional users and the determined status describing each additional user's interaction with the content item further comprises:
determining an order of one or more additional users included in a group based at least in part on a time associated with the interaction with the content item by each of the one or more additional users included in the group; and
presenting the one or more additional users in the group based at least in part on the determined order.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the generating of the interface identifying each of the one or more additional users and the determined status describing each additional user's interaction with the content item further comprises:
determining an order of one or more additional users included in a group based at least in part on affinities between the user and each of the one or more additional users included in the group; and
presenting the one or more additional users in the group based at least in part on the determined order.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the generating of the interface identifying each of the one or more additional users and the determined status describing each additional user's interaction with the content item further comprises:
determining an order of the one or more additional users based at least in part on a time associated with each additional user's interaction with the content item; and
presenting the one or more additional users in the interface based at least in part on the determined order.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the generating of the interface identifying each of the one or more additional users and the determined status describing each additional user's interaction with the content item further comprises:
determining an order of the one or more additional users based at least in part on affinities between the user and each additional user; and
presenting the one or more additional users in the interface based at least in part on the determined order.

8. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a request, from a user of a networking system, to send a content item to one or more additional users via the networking system;
sending the content item to one or more client devices for presentation to the one or more additional users of the networking system;
determining a status describing an interaction with the content item by each of the one or more additional users;
generating an interface identifying each of the one or more additional users and the determined status describing each additional user's interaction with the content item, the generating comprising:
identifying a level of interaction between the user and each of the one or more additional users, the level of interaction describing a frequency with which the user has previously interacted with each additional user, the interaction comprising at least one of: the user sending a message to an additional user, the user reading a message from an additional user, and the user viewing content associated with an additional user;
determining an order of the one or more additional users based on the level of interaction between the user and each additional user; and
presenting user interface elements of the interface identifying the one or more additional users in the determined order;

communicating the generated interface to a client device associated

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Krug Samantha P
• Krieger Michel
• Cunningham Christopher
• Ding Hui

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• H04L51/32

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/21

  for social networking applications · CPC title

• H04W4/06

  Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services · CPC title

• H04L63/08

  for authentication of entities (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32) · CPC title