Christopher A Marra

US Patent:

20140149514, May 29, 2014

Filed:

Nov 26, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/090252

Inventors:

- Menlo Park CA, US
Paul Henry Booth - Needham MA, US
Jonathan Andrew McKay - San Diego CA, US
Seungwhan Moon - Needham MA, US
Margaret-Ann Julia Seger - Needham MA, US
Amon Daran Millner - Cambridge MA, US
Peter Xiu Deng - Cambridge MA, US
Christopher John Marra - San Francisco CA, US
Scott Andrew Thomson - San Francisco CA, US
Gregory Matthew Mara - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc. - Menlo Park CA

International Classification:

H04L 29/06

US Classification:

709204

Abstract:

Physical social actions are conveniently detected, characterized, and provided to a social networking system. This improves the user experience of the social networking system by more thoroughly recording the social actions of users occurring outside a social graph. This has the effect of extending an open social graph, which typically refers to social actions taken outside the social networking system but within a computer network, to physical social actions. By providing characterized physical social actions to the social networking system, the open social graph is extended to include physical social actions.