Patent ID: 8583738
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: requesting a web page from a web server, wherein the web page is within a domain of a third-party website that is different from a domain of a social networking system; receiving at a user device a markup language document for the requested web page; requesting information from the social networking system for presentation within the requested web page, wherein requesting information from the social networking system comprises sending an instruction to the social networking system to select the requested information based on one or more actions stored by the social networking system; providing to the social networking system an identification of a user associated with the user device; receiving the requested information from the social networking system, wherein the information received comprises a set of content items selected based at least in part on one or more of: actions stored by the social networking system and describing one or more interactions between the user and one or more other users of the social networking system; or actions stored by the social networking system describing one or more interactions between the user and an entity external to the social networking system; rendering the web page and the content based on obtained information within the web page, where the content based on the obtained information is rendered in an iframe in the domain of the social networking system; and displaying the rendered web page.