Patent ID: 9600453
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising, by one or more computing systems: accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of one or more of the nodes being associated with one of a plurality of users of an online social network, each connection between two nodes representing a relationship between the two nodes and establishing a single degree of separation between the two nodes; generating a web page comprising user profile information associated with a first user of the plurality of users and a link for multimedia content hosted by a third-party source that is external to the online social network, wherein the first user is associated with a first node of the plurality of nodes; the link being generated from an embed code for the multimedia content using a source ID associated with the third-party source that identifies a configuration file specifying the format of the embed code and having a variable field into which a content ID is inserted; and sending the web page for display to one or more second users of the plurality of users, the one or more second users being associated with one or more second nodes of the plurality of node, respectively, wherein each of the second nodes is within one degree of separation of the first node, and wherein the multimedia content is retrieved using the link and displayed when the web page is rendered.