Social data recording

• US 8,700,708 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2011
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Richter, Michael Judd, Kelly, Matthew William, Haugen, Austin
• Primary Examiner(s): Cho, Un C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rahman, M Mostazir
• Application Number:
  US13/116,909
• Publication Number:
  US 20120303702A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,055 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 709/798, 709/246
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

In particular embodiments, a method comprising, by one or more computing devices, analyzing one or more elements of a displayed structured document to identify one or more objects from a plurality of objects within the displayed structured document, responsive to detected user interaction by a user with a first object of the one or more identified objects, generating data indicating an edge relationship from the first object and the user, and transmitting the data indicating the edge relationship to a social networking system.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

analyzing, by one or more computing devices, one or more elements of a displayed structured document to identify one or more objects from a plurality of objects embedded within the displayed structured document, wherein a user can interact with the objects, which comprises content;

responsive to detected interaction by a first user with a first object of the one or more identified objects, wherein the first user and the first object are represented by respective nodes in a social graph, generating data relating to an edge relationship between the node representing the first object and the node representing the first user, wherein an edge type for the edge relationship is based at least in part on the detected interaction by the first user with the first object; and

transmitting the data indicating the edge relationship to a social-networking system.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating an activity stream entry corresponding to the interaction, the activity stream entry comprising data describing the first object; and

transmitting the activity stream entry to the social-networking system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the elements of the displayed structured document comprises web-page profiling using standard techniques.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the objects have an edge type.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the edge type is based at least in part on one or more previous interactions between one or more second users and the displayed structured document.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the data is based at least in part on a set of user preferences for the social-networking system for the first user.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising, if there is no set of user preferences, prompting the first user to transmit the data indicating the edge relationship to the social-networking system.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the data requires confirmation by the first user prior to transmitting the data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the objects embedded within the displayed structured document are displayed as part of a web page.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the elements of the displayed structured document comprises utilizing an open graph protocol.

11. 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;

analyze one or more elements of a displayed structured document to identify one or more objects from a plurality of objects embedded within the displayed structured document, wherein a user can interact with the objects, which comprise content;

responsive to detected user interaction by a user with a first object of the one or more identified objects, wherein the first user and the first object are represented by respective nodes in a social graph, generate data relating to an edge relationship between the node representing the first object and the node representing the first user, wherein an edge type for the edge relationship is based at least in part on the detected interaction by the first user with the first object; and

transmit the data indicating the edge relationship to a social-networking system.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the processors are further operable when executing the instructions to:

generate an activity stream entry corresponding to the interaction, the activity stream entry comprising data describing the first object; and

transmit the activity stream entry to the social-networking system.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein one or more of the objects have an edge type.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the edge type is based at least on part on one or more previous interactions between one or more second users and the displayed structured document.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein transmitting the data is based at least in part on a set of user preferences for the social-networking system for the first user.

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

analyze one or more elements of a displayed structured document to identify one or more objects from a plurality of objects embedded within the displayed structured document, wherein a user can interact with the objects, which comprise content;

responsive to detected interaction by a first user with a first object of the one or more identified objects, wherein the first user and the first object are represented by respective nodes in a social graph, generate data relating to an edge relationship between the node representing the first object and the node representing the first user, wherein an edge type for the edge relationship is based at least in part on the detected interaction by the first user with the first object; and

transmit the data indicating the edge relationship to a social-networking system.

17. The media of claim 16, wherein the software is further operable when executed to:

generate an activity stream entry corresponding to the interaction, the activity stream entry comprising data describing the first object; and

transmit the activity stream entry to the social-networking system.

18. The media of claim 16, wherein one or more of the objects have an edge type.

19. The media of claim 18, wherein the edge type is based at least in part on or more previous interactions between one or more second users and the displayed structured document.

20. The media of claim 16, wherein transmitting the data is based at least in part on a set of user preferences for the social-networking system for the first user.