Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110264736 | Personalizing a Web Page Outside of a Social Networking System with Content from the Social Networking System - A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. | 10-27-2011 |
20120005224 | Facilitating Interaction Among Users of a Social Network - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first user action relating to a first topic from a first user, identifying the first topic based on the first user action, identifying one or more second posts that relate to the first topic, and transmitting to the first user one or more of the second posts or information associated with the second posts in a structured document for display to the first user, the structured document further comprising one or more interactive elements that enable the first user to interact with the one or more second posts or to respective second users that declared the second posts. | 01-05-2012 |
20120239745 | Personalizing A Web Page Outside Of A Social Networking System With Recommendations for Content From The Social Networking System - A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. | 09-20-2012 |
20120278394 | Personalizing a Web Page Outside of a Social Networking System with Content from the Social Networking System - A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. | 11-01-2012 |
20120284614 | PERSONALIZING A WEB PAGE OUTSIDE OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM WITH CONTENT FROM THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM THAT INCLUDES USER ACTIONS - A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284615 | PERSONALIZING A WEB PAGE OUTSIDE OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM WITH CONTENT FROM THE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM SELECTED BASED ON GLOBAL INFORMATION - A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. | 11-08-2012 |
20140019551 | Personalizing A Web Page Outside Of A Social Networking System With Content From The Social Networking System - A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. | 01-16-2014 |
20140025702 | Filtering Structured Search Queries Based on Privacy Settings - In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving a structured query that included references to nodes and edges from a social graph, identifying target nodes that correspond to the structured query, and then generating search results that include target nodes with privacy settings where the nodes and edges along the path connecting the target node and the querying user are all visible to the user. | 01-23-2014 |
20140330809 | Using Inverse Operators for Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving from a user a structured query comprising references to selected nodes and selected edges, parsing the structure query to identify a first query constraint and one or more second query constraints, identifying a inverse constraint associated with the first query constraint, and generating a query command based on the structured query, where the query command includes the inverse constraint and the one or more second query constraints. | 11-06-2014 |