Patent ID: 9542369
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method comprising: storing a social graph of a social networking system, the social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of connections, each connection associated with a pair of nodes; accessing information from a web page of an external website, wherein the web page allows users to perform actions associated with an entity, the web page provided in a domain that is different from a domain associated with the social networking system; defining an additional node in the social graph of the social networking system at least in part according to the accessed information, the additional node comprising a representation of the entity in the social networking system; generating, by the social networking system, a user interface element, the user interface element configured to perform an action associated with the entity and transmit information describing the action to the social networking system; receiving requests, through the user interface element, from one or more users of the social networking system to perform a user action associated with the entity; and responsive to the received requests, storing one or more connections in the social graph between the one or more users and the additional node, each connection associated with the user action related to the entity.