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Post-to-profile control

  • US 8,214,457 B2
  • Filed: 06/14/2011
  • Issued: 07/03/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • maintaining, at a social networking system, user profile data in one or more data stores, the user profile data corresponding to one or more users, each identified by a user identifier;

    providing, at the social networking system, application programming interfaces (APIs) accessible to a content server that is external to the social networking system;

    receiving, at the social networking system, through the APIs information relating to selected multimedia content and a user identifier corresponding to a user account of a first user, the selected multimedia content being stored on the content server;

    storing, at the social networking system, the information relating to the selected multimedia content in a data structure in association with the user identifier; and

    responsive to a request for a profile page associated with the user identifier, accessing, at the social networking system, the data structure to identify the selected multimedia content and generating a profile page associated with the user identifier, the profile page including an activatable reference to the selected multimedia content embedded therein.

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