Zuckerberg's First Patent Accepted
Bangalore: The first ever patent that Mark Zuckerberg filed has finally been accepted.
The U.S. Patent and Trade Mark Office approved the patent crediting Mark Zuckerberg and former Facebook executive Chris Kelly that covers ways of accessing user profile and selecting different privacy options much like the way we can hide our private information from certain contacts. The patent is for
“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”
One of Zuckerberg’s patents has earlier been used to counter sue Yahoo Inc when Yahoo had filed a suit against Facebook for infringement of 10 patents. Both the companies since then have settled the matter without any money being exchanged. Facebook also declared that it will pay nearly $550 million dollar to Microsoft for the patents it has recently acquired from AOL.