Patent ID: 8862887
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing user contributions for shared content on a network, the method comprising: receiving uploaded content from a first user at a social network system for publication to one or more users of the social network system, wherein the uploaded content is not currently being published on the social network system; obtaining one or more stored previous user contributions associated with and previously applied to the uploaded content, wherein the one or more previous user contributions are different than the uploaded content and include at least one of: wherein the one or more previous user contributions were contributed by one or more other users of a different social network system, and wherein the one or more user contributions were previously published with the uploaded content to one or more users on the different social network system; verifying that the previous user contributions are authentically and correctly associated with the uploaded content and have not been altered since their previous publication; and publishing the uploaded content and the previous user contributions applied to the uploaded content on the social networking system, wherein the uploaded content and the user contributions are accessible by the one or more users of the social network system.