IP Library Granted Patent US 9,026,943
Granted Patent B1
US 9,026,943 · App. 14/325,260 · Granted May 5, 2015

Apparatus and method for single action control of social network profile access

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,026,943
App. No.
14/325,260
Granted
May 5, 2015
Kind
B1
Abstract

A computer implemented method includes allowing a user to access a user-controlled social network profile page with posts in a specified order. A user is permitted to traverse an interface element across the specified order to establish a set position for the interface element. Access to posts is provided on a first side of the set position to define a viewable profile. Access to posts is blocked on a second side of the set position to define a non-viewable profile.

Claims (8)

1. A computer implemented method, comprising:

allowing a user to access a user-controlled social network profile page with posts in a specified order;

permitting a user to traverse an interface element across the posts in the specified order to establish a set position for the interface element;

providing access to posts on a first side of the set position for the interface element to define a viewable profile; and

blocking access to posts on a second side of the set position for the interface element to define a non-viewable profile, wherein blocking access to posts includes blocking access to posts observed by social network members associated with the user, while the user has access to posts on the first side of the set position and the second side of the set position.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein the viewable profile includes fixed information that remains in the viewable profile.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein the specified order is along a temporal axis.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein the specified order has category regions.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 28, 2016
From: SNAPCHAT, INC.
To: SNAP INC.
Reel/Frame 041210/0073 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 7, 2014
From: SPIEGEL, EVAN
To: SNAPCHAT, INC.
Reel/Frame 033255/0007 →