Selecting Social Networking System User Information for Display Via a Timeline Interface

摘要

The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
accessing narrative data related to a subject user of a social networking system to be displayed to a viewing user, where the viewing user is different from the subject user; generating one or more timeline units from the accessed narrative data; generating a score for each of the generated timeline units, wherein each score comprises a measure of the relevance of a timeline unit to the subject user; and selecting one or more of the scored timeline units based on the scoring.