Post-to-profile control

• US 8,521,815 B2
• Filed: 05/22/2012
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Tiu, William K. Jr., Roberto, Jeffrey J.
• Primary Examiner(s): WON, MICHAEL YOUNG
• Application Number:
  US13/478,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20120233260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 462 Days
• Field of Search: 715/201, 715/203, 715/204, 715/234, 715/235, 715/236, 709/203, 709/217, 709/212, 709/216, 719/328
• US Class Current: 709/203
• 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, by one or more computing devices associated with a content server, a selection of multimedia content from a computing device of a first user;

providing, by one or more computing devices associated the content server, a user interface to the computing device of the first user, the user interface comprising information related to the selected multimedia content and a posting control element, wherein activation of the posting control element associates the multimedia content with a user identifier corresponding to a user account of the first user hosted by a social-networking system that is external to the content server;

receiving, by one or more computing devices associated the content server, information relating to an activation of the posting control element by the first user; and

sending, by one or more computing devices associated with the content server, information to access the social-networking system to cause the social-networking system to associate the selected multimedia content with the user identifier of the first user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the social-networking system comprises using one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) of the social-networking system to cause the social-networking system to store information related to the selected multimedia content in a data structure in association with the user identifier of the first user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein accessing the social-networking system comprises sending the user identifier of the first user and information related to the selected multimedia content to the social-networking system.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the information related to the selected multimedia content comprises a source identifier associated with the content server and a content identifier corresponding to the selected multimedia content.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the information related to the selected multimedia content comprises one or more tags.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the information related to the selected multimedia content comprises a reference to a thumbnail image associated with the selected multimedia content.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

prompting the first user for a user name and password corresponding to a user account on the social-networking system; and

providing the user name and password to the social-networking system.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the social-networking system is accessed by the content server.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the social-networking system is accessed by an element of a web page associated with the multimedia content.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a profile page associated with the user identifier, the profile page comprising an activatable reference to the selected multimedia content therein.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises a web page associated with the multimedia content.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the information related to the selected multimedia content comprises or most of the selected multimedia content.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the multimedia content is hosted by the content server, and wherein the content server is communicably connected with the social-networking system.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by one or more computing devices associated the content server, a request from a second user of the social-networking system to view the multimedia content on a web page of the social-networking system, wherein the second user is connected to the first user in the social-networking system.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of one or more of the nodes being associated with one of a plurality of users of an social-networking system, each connection between two nodes representing a relationship between the two nodes and establishing a single degree of separation between the two nodes.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the first user is associated with a first node of the plurality of nodes, and

the second user is associated with a second nodes of the plurality of nodes.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the second node is within one degree of separation of the first node.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the first user has been authenticated with respect to the social-networking system.

19. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is configured when executed to:

receive, by one or more computing devices associated with a content server, a selection of multimedia content from a computing device of a first user;

provide, by one or more computing devices associated with the content server, a user interface to the computing device of the first user, the user interface comprising information related to the selected multimedia content and a posting control element, wherein activation of the posting control element associates the multimedia content with a user identifier corresponding to a user account of the first user hosted by a social-networking system that is external to the content server;

receive, by one or more computing devices associated the content server, information relating to an activation of the posting control element by the first user; and

send, by one or more computing devices associated with the content server, information to access the social-networking system to cause the social-networking system to associate the selected multimedia content with the user identifier of the first user.

20. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to;

receive, by one or more computing devices associated with a content server, a selection of multimedia content from a computing device of a first user;

provide, by one or more computing devices associated with the content server, a user interface to the computing device of the first user, the user interface comprising information related to the selected multimedia content and a posting control element, wherein activation of the posting control element associates the multimedia content with a user identifier corresponding to a user account of the first user hosted by a social-networking system that is external to the content server;

receive, by one or more computing devices associated the content server, information relating to an activation of the posting control element by the first user; and

send, by one or more computing devices associated with the content server, information to access the social-networking system to cause the social-networking system to associate the selected multimedia content with the user identifier of the first user.