Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Social circles in social networks
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Application No.: US14924513Application Date: 2015-10-27
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Publication No.: US09967335B2Publication Date: 2018-05-08
- Inventor: Joseph R. Smarr , Paul Adams , Shimrit Ben-Yair , Jonathan Terleski , Mandy R. Sladden
- Applicant: Google LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04L12/58 ; G06F3/048 ; G06Q10/10 ; G06Q50/00 ; H04W4/20 ; H04L12/24 ; G06F3/0481 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting contact data for displaying representations of contacts for display to a user, the contacts being contacts of the user within a computer-implemented social networking service, generating a first social circle of the user, the first social circle comprising a first subset of contacts of the user within the social networking service and defining a first distribution for digital content, generating a second social circle of the user, the second social circle comprising a second subset of contacts of the user within the social networking service and defining a second distribution for digital content, and, in response to user input, providing the first social circle and the second social circle for selection by the user to define a distribution of digital content, the distribution comprising at least one of the first distribution and the second distribution.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160050266A1 SOCIAL CIRCLES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS Public/Granted day:2016-02-18
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