Submission + - Facebook Awarded Patent for its News Feed
adeelarshad82 writes: Facebook has secured a patent to a feature that many of its competitors have adopted in recent years, the news feed. The patent, officially granted on Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, governs a "method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment." Facebook applied for the patent back in August 2006, about a month before the social networking site opened its doors beyond college students to all Internet users.