US 11,706,268 B2
Social sharing system
Neelakantan Sundaresan, Mountain View, CA (US); Atish Das Sarma, Mountain View, CA (US); Si Si, Austin, TX (US); and Elizabeth Churchill, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to PayPal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by PayPal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/931,279.
Application 17/931,279 is a continuation of application No. 16/983,846, filed on Aug. 3, 2020, granted, now 11,444,991.
Application 16/983,846 is a continuation of application No. 16/286,501, filed on Feb. 26, 2019, granted, now 10,735,482, issued on Jul. 15, 2020.
Application 16/286,501 is a continuation of application No. 13/945,772, filed on Jul. 18, 2013, granted, now 10,218,751, issued on Feb. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/680,646, filed on Aug. 7, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2023/0073633 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 65/403 (2022.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 65/403 (2013.01) [G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0255 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0271 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program instructions stored thereon that are executable by a computer system to perform operations comprising:
accessing sharing activity information that identifies an instance of a first user sharing a news item on a set of social networks;
accessing consumption information that identifies a consumption of the news item by a second user that has a connection with the first user on the set of social networks;
determining a set of correlations based on the sharing activity information and the consumption information;
identifying a third user based on the set of correlations;
determining, based on the set of correlations, a particular news item to present to the third user as a recommendation for the third user; and
causing the particular news item to be presented to the third user.