Automatic Photo Album Creation Based On Social Information

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• storing user profiles for each of a plurality of users of a social networking system;
• storing information for each of a plurality of objects in the social networking system;
• storing a plurality of connections between each of the plurality of the users and the other users or objects in the social networking system;
• accessing a plurality of images provided by a posting user of the plurality of users;
• receiving a request from a viewing user of the plurality of users to access an album, the album comprising a set of images selected from the plurality of images;
• identifying one or more tagged objects in the images in the album, where a tagged object is an object of the plurality of objects in the social networking system;
• computing scores of different types for one or more of the plurality of images, where one or more of the scores for an image is based at least in part on an association between information from a user profile of the viewing user and the one or more tagged objects in the image;
• computing a composite score for one or more of the plurality of images, wherein the composite score comprises the scores of different types;
• selecting a subset of the plurality of images based on the computed composite scores;
• and
• sending for display to the viewing user an album, the album comprising the selected subset of the plurality of images.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• storing user profiles for each of a plurality of users of a social networking system;
• storing information for each of a plurality of objects in the social networking system;
• storing a plurality of connections between each of the plurality of the users and the other users or objects in the social networking system;
• accessing a plurality of images provided by a posting user of the plurality of users;
• receiving a request from a viewing user of the plurality of users to access an album, the album comprising a set of images selected from the plurality of images;
• identifying one or more tagged objects in the images in the album, where a tagged object is an object of the plurality of objects in the social networking system;
• computing a score using one or more of a plurality of scoring functions for one or more of the plurality of images, where the score for an image is based at least in part on an affinity between information from a user profile of the viewing user and the one or more tagged objects in the image;
• selecting a subset of the plurality of images based on the computed scores;
• and
• sending for display to the viewing user an album, the album comprising the selected subset of the plurality of images.