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Sharing television and video programming through social networking

  • US 9,723,373 B2
  • Filed: 11/29/2012
  • Issued: 08/01/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • by one or more computer systems of a social-networking system, querying a social graph of the social-networking system for social content generated by a plurality of users of the social-networking system and posted by the plurality of users to the social-networking system, the social content about video content watched by the plurality of users of the social-networking system, the social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, the nodes comprising;

    user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system; and

    content nodes that are each associated with particular video content, wherein the social content discovered in the query is associated with one or more of the content nodes;

    by the one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, accessing privacy settings associated with each of the plurality of users, the privacy settings indicating whether a particular user has authorized the social-networking system to share social content associated with the particular user with one or more third parties;

    by the one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, aggregating the social content generated by the plurality of users; and

    by the one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, providing the aggregated social content about the video content watched by the plurality of users to a particular third party associated with the production or creation of the video content if the privacy settings of the plurality of users indicate that the plurality of users have authorized the social-networking system to share the social content with one or more third parties, wherein the aggregated social content is provided to the particular third party in real time while the video content is being watched by the plurality of users.

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