Multimedia Aggregation in an Online Social Network

• US 20120102404A1
• Filed: 12/27/2011
• Published: 04/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Jeffrey J. Roberto, William K. Tiu Jr
• Inventors: TIU, William K. Jr., ROBERTO, Jeffrey J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,589,482 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/719
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/40 Support for services or applications

Abstract

Multimedia content is featured on user pages of an online social network using embed codes that are generated using a configuration file associated with the source ID for the multimedia content and a content ID for the multimedia content. The configuration file, the source ID and the content ID are stored locally by the online social network so that any changes to the embed codes can be made by changing the configuration file associated with the source and regenerating the embed codes. By managing multimedia content in this manner, greater control can be exercised by the online social network over the multimedia content that are featured on its user pages.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at one or more computer servers, information associated with one or more videos, each of the one or more videos being associated with a first user of a social network;

transmitting, using one or more processors associated with the one or more computer servers, information to provide streams of the one or more videos;

transmitting, using the one or more processors, for each of the one or more videos, information to display a link to feature the video on a web page;

determining, using the one or more processors, a popularity value for each of the one or more videos;

determining, using the one or more processors, at least one popular video based on the popularity value for each of the one or more videos; and

transmitting information to feature the at least one popular video.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the popularity value for a video is based on adoption of the video, viewership of the video, or a combination thereof.

3. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one popular video comprises a plurality of popular videos, the plurality of popular videos sorted by the determined popularity value for each of the plurality of popular videos.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the information to feature the at least one popular video is transmitted to a second user, the second user being within the same social network as the first user associated with each popular video.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more popular videos are featured on a web page associated with the second user.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the second user is within a predetermined degree of separation from the first user associated with each popular video.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the predetermined degree of separation is 1, 2, 3, or all.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more videos are limited to videos associated with a first user who is within the predetermined degree of separation from the second user.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the predetermined degree of separation is 2 or greater, and wherein determining the at least one popular video comprises weighting the popularity value for each of the one or more videos, the popularity value for a video being weighted according to the degree of separation between the first user associated with the video and the second user.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to feature an video on a web page; and

transmitting information to feature the video on the web page.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to stream a video; and

transmitting information to stream the video.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the video is streamed from a third-party website.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more computer servers are third-party application servers communicably connected with the social network, further comprising:

transmitting to the social network, using the one or more processors, for each video associated with a first user of a social network, authentication information for the first user;

receiving from the social network, at the one or more computer servers, an indication that the first user has been authenticated.

14. A system, comprising:

one or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media encoded with instructions; and

one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to;

receive information associated with a plurality of videos, each video being associated with a first user of a social network;

transmit information to provide a stream of each of the plurality of videos;

transmit, for each of the plurality of videos, information to display a link to feature each of the plurality of videos on a web page;

determine a popularity value of each of the plurality of videos;

determine at least one popular video based on the popularity value of each of the plurality of videos; and

transmit information to feature the at least one popular video.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the video is streamed from a third-party website.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the system comprises third-party application servers communicably connected with the social network, further comprising:

transmitting to the social network, using the one or more processors, for each video associated with a first user of a social network, authentication information for the first user;

receiving from the social network, at the one or more computer servers, an indication that the first user has been authenticated.

17. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed by one or more processors associated with one or more computer servers to:

receive, at the one or more computer servers, one or more videos, each video being associated with a first user of a social network;

transmit, using the one or more processors, information to provide streams of the one or more videos;

transmit, using the one or more processors, for each of the one or more videos, information to display a link to feature the video on a web page;

determine, using the one or more processors, a popularity value for each of the one or more videos;

determine, using the one or more processors, at least one popular video based on the popularity value for each of the one or more videos; and

transmit, using the one or more processors, information to feature the at least one popular video.

18. The media of claim 17, wherein determining the popularity value for a video is based on adoption of the video, viewership of the video, or a combination thereof.

19. The media of claim 17, wherein the at least one popular video is featured on a web page associated with the second user.

20. The media of claim 17, wherein the at least one popular video comprises a plurality of popular videos, the plurality of popular videos being sorted by the popularity value of each of the plurality of popular videos.