Patent ID: 8732802
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: maintaining a social graph at a social networking system, the social graph comprising edge objects, each edge object representing one or more actions having one or more action types and indicating a relationship between two or more graph objects of the social graph; maintaining privacy settings for a user of the social networking system, the privacy settings specifying one or more action types of edge objects associated with the user accessible by a third party application, wherein the third party application is maintained by an entity distinct from the social networking system; receiving edge objects associated with the user from a plurality of sources; receiving a request from the third party application for information about the edge objects associated with the user; aggregating data about one or more edge objects of the social graph associated with the user subject to the privacy settings, the aggregated data including identifying information about edge objects having action types specified by one or more privacy settings as accessible to the third party application; and providing the aggregated data to the third party application.