# Facebook Inc — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Facebook Inc has 9 landmark patents explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Computers Use Memory Networks to Answer Questions](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10664744/watson-question-answering-system-deepqa) — granted 2020
  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 Deep Learning to Predict What You Might Like](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10402750/automl-neural-architecture-search) — granted 2019
  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 Facebook's Share Button Works Across Different Websites](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9602605/facebook-stories) — granted 2017
  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 Facebook Uses User Feedback to Improve Search Results](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9398104/facebook-ads-manager) — granted 2016
  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.
- [How Facebook Ranks Search Results Based on Your Friends' Activity](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8914392/facebook-events) — granted 2014
  A method for ranking search results by prioritizing links that your social network friends have clicked on previously.
- [How Servers Automatically Connect Users Based on Mutual Friend Lists](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/RE45254/google-docs) — granted 2014
  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 Apps Automatically Link Multiple User Accounts](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8701014/office-365-co-authoring) — granted 2014
  A method for logging into multiple separate user accounts with a single set of credentials and managing them through one unified interface.
- [How Facebook's News Feed Picks Stories You'll Like](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8171128/facebook-social-graph) — granted 2012
  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.
- [Displaying Friends' Activities in a Social Network Feed](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/7669123/facebook-news-feed-social-network) — granted 2010
  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."

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