Patent ID: 8468103

Claim:
A method comprising: by one or more computing devices, receiving a request from a first user to view a user profile of a second user; by one or more computing devices, determining based on social-graph information an authorization level of the first user with respect to viewing the user profile of the second user; by one or more computing devices, if the authorization level of the first user meets or exceeds an authorization requirement for viewing the user profile of the second user, then providing for display a full version of the user profile of the second user to the first user; and by one or more computing devices, if the authorization level of the first user does not meet or exceed the authorization requirement, then providing for display a mini-profile version of the user profile of the second user to the first user, the mini-profile version of the user profile of the second user comprising a pre-determined subset of the full version of the user profile of the second user.