Patent ID: 9736093
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A method comprising: maintaining user profiles for users of a social networking system, the user profiles including identifying information about the users; providing a first interface to a user of the social networking system for display, the first interface comprising selectable links associated with available connections that the user can establish a communication session with, the available connections comprising other users connected to the user in the social networking system; receiving a selection of a link from the user selecting a connection from the available connections; establishing shadow identifiers with a third-party communication service for the user and the selected connection; establishing, via the third-party communication service, a communication session between the user and the selected connection by referencing the user and the selected connection by the shadow identifiers; providing a second interface to the selected connection for display; and integrating the third-party communication service into the first and second interfaces using the shadow identifiers to identify the user and the selected connection, wherein the third-party communication service cannot access the identifying information about the user and the selected connection using the shadow identifiers, the integrating comprising rendering video conferencing technology provided by the third-party communication service in the first and second interfaces.