This Facebook patent lists Mark Zuckerberg as an inventor and is directed towards dynamically providing a feed of stories about a user of a social networking system. Mr. Zuckerberg was awarded U.S. Patent 8352859 entitled “Dynamically providing a feed of stories about a user of a social networking system” on January 8, 2013. The utility patent has been cited 14 times by other U.S. patents in the field of digital communication and in other fields.

To display a news feed in a social network environment, a social networking system generates news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment. The social networking system may also attach an informational link associated with at least one of the activities to at least one of the news items, limit access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers, and assign an order to the news items. The news items may be displayed in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers, and the number of news items displayed may be dynamically limited. Link: U.S. Patent 8352859

Facebook filed this utility patent on February 10, 2010 giving it a processing time of 1063 days (compared to an average processing time of 1290 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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