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Displaying Friends' Activities in a Social Network Feed

This patent describes how social networks like Facebook collect what users do, create short updates about those actions, and show them to specific friends in a personalized list called a "news feed."

How Facebook's News Feed Picks Stories You'll Like

Facebook's 2012 patent explains how it creates a personalized news feed by showing stories about friends' actions, ordered by your interest, and updating it based on what you click.

How Facebook Ranks Search Results Based on Your Friends' Activity

A method for ranking search results by prioritizing links that your social network friends have clicked on previously.

How Apps Automatically Link Multiple User Accounts

A method for logging into multiple separate user accounts with a single set of credentials and managing them through one unified interface.

How Facebook Uses Deep Learning to Predict What You Might Like

A method for training AI models to recommend new content by comparing a user's past interactions with unseen items in a social network.

How Servers Automatically Connect Users Based on Mutual Friend Lists

A method for servers to automatically create secure communication links between two users only if they have both added each other to their respective contact or buddy lists.

How Facebook's Share Button Works Across Different Websites

A patent describing how a social network can pull content from an outside website and share it with friends based on specific user-selected settings.

How Computers Use Memory Networks to Answer Questions

A method for AI to search through large amounts of stored information by repeatedly 'hopping' through memory to find the most relevant facts for answering a question.

How Facebook Uses User Feedback to Improve Search Results

A method for improving search engine accuracy by letting users manually rate search results, then using those ratings to automatically adjust how the search algorithm ranks future results.