This Facebook patent by inventor Mark Zuckerberg is directed towards dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network. Mr. Zuckerberg was awarded U.S. Patent 7669123 entitled “Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network” on February 23, 2010. The utility patent has been cited 195 times by other U.S. patents in the field of digital communication and in other fields.

A method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment is described. The method includes generating news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment and attaching an informational link associated with at least one of the activities, to at least one of the news items, as well as limiting access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers and assigning an order to the news items. The method further may further include displaying the news items in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers and dynamically limiting the number of news items displayed. Link: U.S. Patent 7669123

Facebook filed this utility patent on August 11, 2006 giving it a processing time of 1292 days (compared to an average processing time of 1842 in the field). They have a total number of 2008 patents. The first named inventor is Mark E. Zuckerberg of Palo Alto, CA. The patent was allowed by primary examiner Cong-Lac Huynh and examiner .

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