Patent ID: 8656298
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of generating a graphical display showing interactions with a piece of content accessible via a number of unrelated websites, comprising: storing a piece of content within a database and providing access to the piece of content via a website hosted by a server associated with the database, where the database is used to create an online marketing platform for an online social network and the piece of content is user-generated content solicited via the online marketing platform; receiving a request from a user to propagate the piece of content to a first 3 obtaining user account information; accessing the first 3 providing propagation player code to the first 3 receiving requests from browser applications, where the requests are associated with user interactions with the piece of content; identifying requests associated with a user interaction via the propagation player included in the first 3 identifying the first 3 updating database records tracking user interactions with the piece of content via different websites in response to the received requests; generating a display of the websites to which the content has been propagated, where the display includes at least one 3