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Multimedia aggregation in an online social network

  • US 9,798,705 B2
  • Filed: 04/11/2013
  • Issued: 10/24/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising, by a computing device:

  • receiving, by one or more processors associated with one or more computer servers of an online social network, a request to share a multimedia content item, the multimedia content item being associated with a third-party source that is separate from and external to the online social network, and the request being associated with a first user of an online social network;

    associating, by the one or more processors, the multimedia content item with a source ID, the source ID identifying a configuration for generating an embed code for accessing content provided by the third-party source;

    extracting, by the one or more processors, a content ID from a URL associated with the multimedia content item;

    storing, by the one or more processors, a content entry, the content entry being associated with an identifier for the first user of the online social network, the content entry comprising the source ID and the content ID;

    receiving, from a client system of a second user of the online social network, a request for a web page of the online social network, wherein the first user and second user are within a threshold degree of separation within a social graph of the online social network;

    determining that the requested web page is to contain content shared by the first user;

    retrieving the content entry based at least in part on the identifier for the first user of the online social network;

    retrieving the configuration based at least in part on the source ID of the content entry;

    generating an embed code for the multimedia content item using the retrieved configuration and the content ID of the content entry; and

    transmitting, to the client system of the second user, information to display the web page, the web page comprising the generated embed code for the multimedia content item.

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