Patent ID: 8832556
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: one or more processors; a distributed database configured with items of data, the distributed database storing information of a social networking system describing a plurality of existing users; a scripting language configured to extract data from the social networking system, the data extraction applying access control comprising privacy settings of each user of the social networking system, the privacy settings restricting the information about the user that is accessible to other users of the social networking system; and a structured query language interface for extracting information of the social networking system, the structured query language interface in communication with the scripting language, the structured query language interface configured to access database systems and further configured to receive a query over a network, to send the query to the scripting language, and to receive extracted data from the scripting language comprising the requested information subject to the privacy settings of users of the social networking system in response to the query,