Personalizing a web page outside of a social networking system with content from the social networking system

US8250145B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FACEBOOK, INC. · US

Inventors

• Mark E. Zuckerberg · Palo Alto, US
• Ray C. He · Mountain View, US
• Spencer Ahrens · Menlo Park, US
• Yofay Kari Lee · Palo Alto, US
• Chaitanya Mishra · Palo Alto, US
• Austin Haugen · San Francisco, US
• Xin Liu · Belmont, US
• Michael Steven Vernal · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 21, 2010
• Grant date: Aug 21, 2012
• Expiry date: Jan 7, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/53
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.