Managing for-sale group postings

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9860205-B2
Application number	US-201514707985-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 8, 2015
Priority date	May 8, 2015
Publication date	Jan 2, 2018
Grant date	Jan 2, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and method for managing social networking system for-sale groups. For example, systems and method described herein identify sale listings within social networking system for-sale groups and aggregates the identified sale listings into a personal town square for a particular social networking system user. Furthermore, systems and methods can reorder the personal town square based on likes and interests of the social networking system user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
identifying, using one or more processors and for a social networking system user, one or more group memberships, wherein each membership indicates an association between the social networking system user and a group, and each group comprises a plurality of posts;
analyzing, using the one or more processors, the plurality of posts from each of one or more groups associated with the one or more group memberships to identify a plurality of user-to-user sale listings;
aggregating, using the one or more processors, the identified plurality of user-to-user sale listings into a personalized newsfeed for the social networking system user;
reordering the personalized newsfeed based on social networking system activity associated with the user, wherein reordering the personalized newsfeed based on the social networking system activity associated with the user comprises:
identifying social networking system activity associated with the user that indicates one or more interests associate with the user;
determining, based on the identified social networking system activity, one or more of the plurality of user-to-user sale listings that will be interesting to the user; and
reordering the personalized newsfeed such that the one or more user-to-user sale listings that will be interesting to the user are prominently positioned within the personalized newsfeed; and

providing, using the one or more processors, the personalized newsfeed to the social networking system user within a standalone webpage.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein analyzing the plurality of posts to identify a plurality of user-to-user sale listings comprises analyzing one or more of information specific to each of the plurality of posts or social networking system activity associated with each of the plurality of posts.

3. The method as recited in claim 2 , wherein analyzing information specific to each of the plurality of posts comprises determining whether each of the plurality of posts comprises one or more of a digital photograph featuring an item, a digital video featuring an item, a description including transactional language, or a description including sale-related acronyms.

4. The method as recited in claim 2 , wherein analyzing social networking system activity associated with each of the plurality of posts comprises:
identifying social networking system activity associated with each of the plurality of posts; and
analyzing the identified social networking system activity for sale listing indicators.

5. The method as recited in claim 4 , wherein identifying social networking system activity associated with each of the plurality of posts comprises identifying one or more of views of each of the plurality of posts, clicks associated with each of the plurality of posts, “likes” associated with each of the plurality of posts, one or more comments associated with each of the plurality of posts, or one or more messages associated with each of the plurality of posts.

6. The method as recited in claim 4 , wherein analyzing the identified social networking system activity for sale listing indicators comprises analyzing the identified social networking system activity for one or more of time spent on views of each of the plurality of posts, a social networking system relationship between an author of each of the plurality of posts and a social networking system user who performed the social networking system activity, a social networking system relationship between two or more social networking system users who performed the social networking system activity, a time period that elapsed between each of the plurality of posts becoming active and the social networking system activity, a time period that elapsed between each of the plurality of posts becoming active and a removal of each of the plurality of posts, transactional language in one or more comments associated with each of the plurality of posts, or transactional language in one or more messages associated with each of the plurality of posts.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein reordering the personalized newsfeed is further based on one or more of post information specific to each of the user-to-user sale listings or social networking system activity associated with each of the user-to-user sale listings.

8. The method as recited in claim 7 , wherein reordering the personalized newsfeed based on one or more of post information specific to each of the user-to-user sale listings or social networking system activity associated with each of the user-to-user sale listings comprises:
identifying post information specific to each of the user-to-user sale listings that is indicative of a popularity level associated with each of the user-to-user sale listings;
identifying social networking system activity associated with each of the user-to-user sale listings that is indicative of the popularity of each of the user-to-user sale listings; and
reordering the personalized newsfeed such that one or more user-to-user sale listings associated with post information and social networking system activity that are indicative of the one or more user-to-user sale listings being popular are prominently positioned within the personalized newsfeed.

9. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein identifying one or more group memberships comprises analyzing social networking system profile information associated with the social networking system user to identify the one or more group memberships.

10. The method as recited in claim 9 , wherein identifying one or more group memberships further comprises analyzing social networking system profile information associated with the social networking system user for associations between the social networking system user and one or more for-sale groups.

11. A system comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
identify, using one or more processors and for a social networking system user, one or more group memberships, wherein each membership indicates an association between the social networking system user and a group, and each group comprises a plurality of posts;
analyze, using the one or more processors, the plurality of posts from each of one or more groups associated with the one or more group memberships to identify a plurality of user-to-user sale listings;
aggregate, using the one or more processors, the identified plurality of user-to-user sale listings into a personalized newsfeed for the social networking system user;
reorder the personalized newsfeed based on social networking system activity associated with the user, wherein reordering the personalized newsfeed based on the social networking system activity associated with the user comprises:
identifying social networking system activity associated with the user that indicates one or more interests associated with the user;
determining, based on the identified social networking system activity, one or more of the plurality of user-to-user sale listings that will be interesting to the user; and
reordering the personalized newsfeed such that the one or more user-to-user sale listings that will be interesting to the user are prominently positioned within the personalized newsfeed; and

provide, using the one or more processors, the personalized newsfeed to the social networking system user within a standalone webpage.

12. The system as recited in claim 11 , wherein the instruction that cause the system to analyze the plurality of posts to identify a pl

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Liu Deborah
• Ku Mary Pao-An
• Pan Bowen
• Cheng Derek

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

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

• G06Q30/0641

  utilising user interfaces specially adapted for shopping · CPC title

• G06Q30/0605 Primary

  Pooling transaction partners, e.g. group buying or group selling · CPC title

• G06Q30/0631

  Recommending goods or services · CPC title

• H04L67/306

  User profiles · CPC title