This Facebook patent lists Mark Zuckerberg as an inventor and is directed towards dynamically generating a privacy summary. Mr. Zuckerberg was awarded U.S. Patent 8225376 entitled “Dynamically generating a privacy summary” on July 17, 2012. The utility patent has been cited 34 times by other U.S. patents in the field of digital communication and in other fields.

A system and method for dynamically generating a privacy summary is provided. The present invention provides a system and method for dynamically generating a privacy summary. A profile for a user is generated. One or more privacy setting selections are received from the user associated with the profile. The profile associated with the user is updated to incorporate the one or more privacy setting selections. A privacy summary is then generated for the profile based on the one or more privacy setting selections. Link: U.S. Patent 8225376

Facebook filed this utility patent on July 25, 2006 giving it a processing time of 2184 days (compared to an average processing time of 2016 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 assistant examiner Thong Truong and primary examiner Jeffrey Pwu.

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