Patent ID: 8898730
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of confirming a privacy setting of digital content posted by a first user connected with at least one second user within a social graph of an online social network provided by an online computer social media service application, the method comprising: providing an operating layer that includes a first interface associated with an execution of the online computer social media service application comprising an application view selected from a first view corresponding to a public privacy setting of the first user, a second view corresponding to the at least one second user for confirming by the first user the visibility of the digital content for the at least one second user, or a third view corresponding to a personal privacy setting of the first user; providing a privacy setting layer that includes a second interface transparently overlaid on the first interface; the second interface comprising the privacy setting for changing the visibility of the digital content posted by the first user, wherein the first user can enable or disable visibility of the digital content for one of the at least one second user by changing the privacy setting on the second interface; changing the application view to the second view corresponding to the one of the at least one second user; using the privacy setting of the second interface to adjust the visibility of the digital content for the one of the at least one second user from visible to not visible and from not visible to visible by the first user, propagating at least one of the adjustments from the second interface to the operating layer, and in response to the propagating, the operating layer changing the visibility of the digital content of within the second view of the first interface in accord with the at least one of the adjustments, wherein the first user may observe the changes to the visibility of the digital content on the first interface through the transparent overlay of the second interface contemporaneous to the at least one of the adjustment without additional interfaces or stoppage of the online computer social media service application, thereby confirming to the first user that the one of the at least one second user's visibility of the digital content corresponds to the at least one of the adjustments.