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Sharing television and video programming through social networking

US9667584B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 29, 2012
Grant dateMay 30, 2017
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Expiry dateJan 28, 2034

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2101/622
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In particular embodiments a social networking system captures data associated with video content provided to a first user of a social-networking system, identifies, using the captured data, the video content provided to the first user, and updates a graph of the social-networking system to associate the first user with the identified video content. The graph of the social-networking system has a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes. The nodes of the graph include user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system.

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