Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sponsored stories unit creation from organic activity stream
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Application No.: US14792528Application Date: 2015-07-06
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Publication No.: US09742822B2Publication Date: 2017-08-22
- Inventor: Philip Anastasios Zigoris , Nipun Mathur , Robert Kang-Xing Jin , Brian Thomas Boland
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; H04L29/06 ; G06Q50/00 ; G06F17/30 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to sponsored story generation from an organic activity stream in a social networking site. A user wishing to promote an entry from an organic activity stream may, using a sponsor user interface, specify the types of stories to promote to a portion of the home page displayed to a member of a social network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150312292A1 Sponsored Stories Unit Creation from Organic Activity Stream Public/Granted day:2015-10-29
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