Communicating information in a social network system about activities from another domain
US10110413B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 8, 2011 |
| Grant date | Oct 23, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 1, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L51/234
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method is described for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain by maintaining a profile for each user of the social networking system, each profile identifying a connection to other users of the social networking system and including information about the user, receiving communications from a third party website having a different domain than the social network system, each message communicating an action taken by a user of the social networking system on the third party website, logging the actions taken on the third-party website in the social networking system, each logged action including information about the action, and correlating the logged actions with one or more advertisements presented to the one or more users on the third-party website as well as correlating the logged actions with a user of the social networking system.
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