Facebook的新聞聯播專利

Facebook取得一個跟feed串流技術有關的專利，該專利的技術是把網路上的新聞消息，讓使用者可以附上鏈結後，提供給其他人看。

US7,669,123
Title:Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network
Filing Date:2006.8.11.
Issue Date:2010.2.23.
Abstract:
A method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment is described. The method includes generating news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment and attaching an informational link associated with at least one of the activities, to at least one of the news items, as well as limiting access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers and assigning an order to the news items. The method further may further include displaying the news items in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers and dynamically limiting the number of news items displayed.

Smart的看法
由於微誌很多都提供這種功能，這個專利出現，對目前市面現有的微網誌會造成多大的衝擊，有待觀察。