Patent ID: 9749334
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, from a client device of an author user, a request for a restricted ideogram to be inserted into a message; accessing social-networking information for the author user stored in association with a social graph of the social-networking system; determining, based on the social-networking information for the author user, whether the author user is authorized to access the restricted ideogram; accessing social-networking information for a recipient user stored in association with the social graph of the social-networking system; determining, based on the social-networking information for the recipient user, whether the recipient user is authorized to access the restricted ideogram; and if the author user and the recipient user are authorized to access the restricted ideogram, then sending, to the client device of the author user, information to insert the restricted ideogram into the message; else if the author user or the recipient user is not authorized to access the restricted ideogram, then sending, to the client device of the author user, a restricted-content response comprising a warning that the restricted ideogram has restrictions associated with it.