Source: http://www.google.es/patents/US8732846
Timestamp: 2018-01-21 14:57:50
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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 2008261648', 'Application No. 2008261648', 'Application No. 2008261648', 'Application No. 2008', 'Application No. 2', 'Application No. 2008', 'Application No. 08770901', 'Application No. 08797914', 'Application No. 2010', 'Application No. 2010', 'Application No. 2008', 'Application No. 2008', 'Application No. 2008', 'Application No. 200880103393', 'Application No. 200880103393', 'Application No. 2008']

Patente US8732846 - Platform for providing a social context to software applications - Google Patentes
The present invention provides a system and method for providing a social context to software applications. According to one embodiment of the invention, a user of a social network authorizes access by an external software application to information available in the social network. At some time later,...http://www.google.es/patents/US8732846?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatente US8732846 - Platform for providing a social context to software applications
Número de publicación US8732846 B2
Número de solicitud US 11/893,559
También publicado como CA2695545A1, CA2695545C, CN101785017A, CN101785017B, EP2201504A1, EP2201504A4, US9426157, US20090049525, US20140223519, WO2009023790A1
Número de publicación 11893559, 893559, US 8732846 B2, US 8732846B2, US-B2-8732846, US8732846 B2, US8732846B2
Inventores Adam D'Angelo, Dave Fetterman, Charles Duplain Cheever, Arieh Steinberg, Eric Zamore, James H. Wang, Julie Zhuo, David Brookes Morin, Mark Slee, Ruchi Sanghvi
Citas de patentes (100), Otras citas (27), Citada por (17), Clasificaciones (10), Eventos legales (1)
US 8732846 B2
receiving at the social networking system a privacy setting from a user of the social networking system via a user device, the privacy setting indicating whether an application provided by a party other than a provider of the social networking system is authorized to access information about the user, including information about one or more other users with whom the user has established a connection in the social networking system, and wherein the application provides content from a server on which the application is executed to the user device based on the accessed information about the one or more other users with whom the user has established a connection in the social networking system;
receiving additional privacy settings from one or more other users of the social networking system with whom the user has established a connection, the additional privacy settings at least in part defining whether the application can make a particular user's information obtained from the social networking system available through the application to other users of the application;
receiving at the social networking system a request from the application for information about the user of the social networking system, the requested information comprising information about one or more of the other users with whom the user has a connection in the social networking system;
receive additional privacy settings from one or more other users of the social networking system with whom the user has established a connection, the additional privacy settings at least in part defining whether the application can make a particular user's information obtained from the social networking system available through the application to other users of the application,
receive a request for information about the user stored in the user information database, the requested information comprising information about one or more of the other users with whom the user has a connection in the social networking system, and
6. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing computer program code for performing the steps:
determining, based on the received privacy setting, whether the social networking system is authorized to provide the requested information to the requesting application;
7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the requested information comprises information about the user of the application.
8. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the requested information comprises information about one or more other users of the social networking system.
9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the user has established a connection in the social networking system with the other users.
11. The system of claim 5, wherein the application programming interface is further configured to:
12. The computer program product of claim 6, the computer-readable storage medium further containing computer program code for:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an architecture connecting a social network provider 102, a software application 104, and users 106 via computing devices over a network 108 that may be used with the present invention. Users 106, such as a user 106A, a user 106B, and a user 106N, communicate over a network 108 with a social network provider 102. The users 106A-106N may use any type of communication device compatible with the social network provider 102, such as a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant, and/or a desktop or a laptop computer. Any type of communication device falls within the scope of various embodiments.
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Clasificación internacional G06Q10/00, G06F17/30, H04N7/16, G06F7/04
Clasificación cooperativa H04L63/102, G06F21/6245, G06Q30/02, G06Q10/00, H04L63/10