This Facebook patent by inventor Mark Zuckerberg is directed towards generating segmented community flyers in a social networking system. Mr. Zuckerberg was awarded U.S. Patent 7797256 entitled “Generating segmented community flyers in a social networking system” on September 14, 2010. The utility patent has been cited 56 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management and in other fields.

Segmented community flyers are predicated upon segmented communities. Segmented communities are for those web-based users that appreciate the distinction between their “real life” friends in their local geographic communities and their “cyberspace” contacts, many of whom they have never met in person. Further, those web-based users that do appreciate their “real life” friends in their local geographic communities need a way of communicating to many of these “real life” friends at once, without having to spend time preparing and sending multiple emails. Segmented community flyers advantageously accomplish such communication. Link: U.S. Patent 7797256

Facebook filed this utility patent on August 2, 2006 giving it a processing time of 1504 days (compared to an average processing time of 1864 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 Jonathan Ouellette and examiner .

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