Communicating plans for users of a social networking system

摘要

Exemplary systems and methods for calendaring are provided. Exemplary systems include a natural language receiving component configured to receive a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, a calendar generation engine configured to create a calendar entry based on the natural language entry, a social network database configured for accessing and querying by the calendar generation engine, a privacy component configured to receive a privacy setting indicating a person who is approved to view the calendar entry, and a display module configured to display the calendar entry on a calendar. Exemplary methods include receiving a natural language entry corresponding to a future status, creating a calendar entry, and displaying the calendar entry.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
maintaining in a social networking system a plurality of connections among a plurality of users of the social networking system, the plurality of users each having an account on the social networking system that stores interests identified for each of the users; receiving in the social networking system an entry for a first user of the plurality of users, the received entry scheduling an event for the first user, the first user having a connection to a plurality of users in the social networking system; determining by the social networking system that the event is related to one or more of the interests stored in the accounts of the plurality of the users having a connection to the first user, the relation between the event and the stored interests indicating that the users may have a desire to also schedule the event on the users' own calendars; and providing, by the social networking system for display to each of the users having a connection to the first user and also having been determined to have one or more interests related to the event, an entry including information about the event that the users can accept to schedule the event on the users' own calendars.