×

Providing Social-Network Information to Third-Party Systems

  • US 20110093709A1
  • Filed: 12/28/2010
  • Published: 04/21/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, at a first computing device associated with a social-networking system and from a second computing device associated with a third-party system, a query comprising a first identifier corresponding to a user of the third-party system, wherein the first identifier is computed by applying a hash algorithm to a user credential associated with the user of the third-party system;

    determining, by the first computing device, whether the user of the third-party system matches any member of the social-networking system, comprising;

    for each member of the social-networking system,accessing a second identifier corresponding to the member of the social-networking system computed by applying the hash algorithm to a user credential associated with the member of the social-networking system; and

    comparing the first identifier and the second identifier; and

    if the second identifier corresponding to a member of the social-networking system matches the first identifier, then sending, by the first computing device to the second computing device, social-network information of the member of the social-networking system in response to the query.

View all claims
  • 1 Assignment
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×