Sharing television and video programming through social networking

US9301016B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FACEBOOK, INC. · US

Inventors

• Ime Archibong · San Francisco, US
• Gregory Joseph Badros · Palo Alto, US
• Cameron Alexander Marlow · Menlo Park, US
• Mark Heynen · San Francisco, US
• Justin Alexander Shaffer · Menlo Park, US
• Christopher Cox · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 5, 2012
• Grant date: Mar 29, 2016
• Expiry date: Apr 5, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N21/84
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In particular embodiments a social networking system may receive from an external system outside the social-networking system, a request comprising a user identifier associated with a user of the social-networking system, query a social graph for stories generated by one or more connections of the user on the social-networking system, and transmit the stories to the external system. Similarly the social networking system may receive, from an external system outside of the social networking system, a request comprising a user identifier associated with a user of the social networking system, a content identifier, and a action performed by the user on the content identifier, generate a story for the received request, and publish the story to one or more connections of the user on the social networking system.