Techniques for generating and displaying a visual flow of user content through a social network
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsMartin Miles Wattenberg, Fernanda Bertini Viégas, John Francis Hebert
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Abstract
A computer-implemented technique for generating a visual display illustrating the flow of user content in a social network is described. The technique can include determining a user content associated with a plurality of users. The technique can further include generating a visual display that includes a region for each user of the plurality of users. The technique can also include generating arranging the regions in the visual display according to a set of layout rules, and aligning a directional indicator in the visual display. The technique can include providing the visual display to a user via a display.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- determining, at a computing device having one or more processors and being associated with a social network, a user content associated with a plurality of users;
- generating, at the computing device, a first instruction for generating a visual display that includes a region for each user of the plurality of users;
- generating, at the computing device, a second instruction for arranging the regions and one or more directional indicators in the visual display according to a set of layout rules such that the regions and the one or more directional indicators illustrate a flow of the user content through the social network;
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- generating, at the computing device, a third instruction for providing the visual display to a user via a display associated with the computing device, the visual display including the regions and the one or more directional indicators.
A computing device associated with a social network and having one or more processors configured to perform operations comprising:
- determining a user content associated with a plurality of users;
- generating a first instruction for generating a visual display that includes a region for each user of the plurality of users;
- generating a second instruction for arranging the regions and one or more directional indicators in the visual display according to a set of layout rules such that the regions and the one or more directional indicators illustrate a flow of the user content through the social network;
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- generating a third instruction for providing the visual display to a user via a display associated with the computing device, the visual display including the regions and the one or more directional indicators.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.