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Inventor

Andrew Bosworth

Patents indexed

2

Year range

2010 – 2012

Associated with

Years active

2010 – 2012

Total patents

2

Most recent

2012

Frequent collaborator

Mark Zuckerberg

Domains

softwaretelecommunicationssocial_networksocial_mediaconsumer_electronics

Activity by decade

2010s
2

Patents

2

Career timeline

2 patents, 2010–2012

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201020112012

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US 7669123·2010·Facebook Inc

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."

US 8171128·2012·Facebook Inc

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.

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