This Facebook patent lists Mark Zuckerberg as an inventor and is directed towards creating and sharing interest lists in a social networking system. Mr. Zuckerberg was awarded U.S. Patent 8510380 entitled “Creating and sharing interest lists in a social networking system” on August 13, 2013. The utility patent has been cited 7 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management and in other fields.

A social networking service allows a user of the service to create an interest list associated with a topic of interest, where the interest list includes members that may post content via the social networking service. Members of the interest list may post content associated with the topic. Other users of the social network service may subscribe to the list, and these subscribers may then receive a feed that contains the content posted by the members of the interest list. Link: U.S. Patent 8510380

Facebook filed this utility patent on January 9, 2012 giving it a processing time of 582 days (compared to an average processing time of 716 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 Moustafa M Meky and examiner .

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