Patent ID: 8713055
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: maintaining a profile for a plurality of users of a social networking system, each profile identifying one or more items of user data associated with a user; monitoring actions taken by the users of the social networking system, one of the actions comprising a change in a privacy setting by the user that denies a particular user access to the one or more items of user data, the user and the particular user being indirectly connected within the social networking system; responsive to the change in the privacy setting, determining that a search of the social networking system has been conducted by the particular user via a search engine external to the social networking system to generate a search result, the search result including data associated with the user for display to the particular user via the at least one of the information pathways; and generating, by a computer processor, a modified search result by removing the data associated with the user from the search result responsive to the changed privacy setting.