Patent ID: 9396502
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: sending, one or more content items, each associated with a time, for presentation to a user of a social networking system in a newsfeed comprising a chronological list of the content items based on the times associated with the content items; receiving, by a processor, a selection of a newsfeed content item from the presented one or more newsfeed content items; saving, by the processor, the selected newsfeed content item and a description of a saved state of the selected newsfeed content item when the selection was received in the social networking system; retrieving, by the processor, information associated with the user in the social networking system, wherein the retrieved information associated with the user comprises determining that at least a threshold number of saved content items are associated with the user; responsive to the retrieved information associated with the user satisfying one or more criteria: determining, by the processor, modifications between the saved state and a current state of the newsfeed content item; sending, by the processor, the previously saved newsfeed content item and the modifications for presentation to the user, the modifications visually distinguished from the saved state in the presentation of the newsfeed content item; and presenting the previously saved newsfeed content item and the modifications in the newsfeed based on a time more recent than the time associated with the selected and saved newsfeed content item when it was initially presented.