US 11,947,594 B2
Personalized content sharing
Justin Lewis, Marina del Rey, CA (US); and Ruxandra Georgiana Davies, Santa Monica, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/373,727.
Application 17/373,727 is a continuation of application No. 16/188,112, filed on Nov. 12, 2018, granted, now 11,061,963.
Application 16/188,112 is a continuation of application No. 14/639,276, filed on Mar. 5, 2015, granted, now 10,127,311, issued on Nov. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0342392 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/738 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/48 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/738 (2019.01) [G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/48 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for personalized sharing of content items on a content sharing platform, the method comprising:
presenting, by a user device of a user of the content sharing platform, a user interface (UI) including content and a UI share element allowing the user to share the content with other users;
in response to a selection of the UI share element by the user in the UI, transmitting, to a server, a request to share the content with other users;
receiving, from the server, a server-selected subset of contacts of the user on the content sharing platform, wherein contacts in the subset of contacts are selected from a plurality of contacts of the user on the content sharing platform based on at least one of (i) an affinity of the user with each contact of the subset of contacts on the content sharing platform, or (ii) interactions of the user with content of each contact of the subset of contacts;
presenting, to the user, the subset of contacts of the user comprising a first contact of the plurality of contacts of the user and not including a second contact of the plurality of contacts of the user; and
allowing the user to share the content with the first contact of the plurality of contacts.