Prompting user action in conjunction with tagged content on a social networking system
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorRussell Eric Heddleston
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Abstract
A social networking system user is prompted to take an action or is provided with additional information associated with a location where the user has checked-in or has associated with content using a tag. When an input including the check-in or tagged location is received, the social networking system selects one or more actions based on the location, the user, and/or contextual information included in the input. A prompt identifying the one or more of the selected actions is generated and presented to the user.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- receiving a content item for posting to a social networking system from a user of the social networking system;
- determining whether the input includes a tag that identifies a location maintained by the social networking system;
- responsive to determining the input includes a tag that identifies a location maintained by the social networking system, identifying one or more applications associated with the location identified by the tag;
- and
- generating a user interface prompting the user to install one or more of the identified application.
A method comprising:
- maintaining a plurality of objects associated with locations in a social networking system;
- receiving an input from a user of the social networking system, the input comprising content for presentation to additional users of the social networking system;
- determining whether the input includes one or more tags that identify a location associated with an object stored by the social networking system;
- responsive to determining the input includes one or more tags that identify the location, generating a user interface prompting the user to provide additional information describing the location;
- receiving additional information describing the location from the user;
- associating the received additional information with the location;
- selecting one or more actions that are associated with the location based on the received information and the received additional information;
- and
- generating a user interface prompting the user to perform the selected one or more actions.
The method of claim 12, wherein the likelihood that the user will perform an action from the one or more actions is based at least in part on information selected from a group consisting of:
- user profile information associated with the user, actions performed by the user on the social networking system, actions performed by the user on one or more third party websites, information associated with one or more users of the social networking system connected to the user, a geographic location associated with the user, and any combination thereof.
A method comprising:
- receiving an input from a user of a social networking system;
- determining whether the input includes a tag that identifies a location maintained by the social networking system;
- responsive to determining the input includes a tag that identifies a location maintained by the social networking system, identifying one or more actions associated with the location identified by the tag;
- identifying one or more additional users connected to the user through the social networking system and identified by the received input;
- and
- presenting a user interface prompting performance of one or more of the identified actions to one or more of the identified additional users.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.