Facebook, Inc.

Userclouds, Inc.

Vladimir Fedorov

Edward Kenneth O'Neil

Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen

Michael Steven Vernal

Carl Philip Sjogreen

Paul Tarjan

Naitik Hemant Shah

Ramanujan Srinivasan

Arthur George Rudolph

Stephen Garrity

Brynn Shepherd

Greg D Schechter

Tirunelveli R Vishwanath

Austin Haugen

Jason Scott Sobel

Benjamin Golub

Casey Maloney Rosales Muller

Edward Kenneth O'neil

Greg Schecter

Naitik Shah

Token generation and management are disclosed, including: generating a token corresponding to a set of user data based at least in part on a token generation policy; storing a mapping between the token and the set of user data; and determining whether to grant a token resolution request associated with the token based at least in part on a token access policy associated with the token and a context parameter associated with the token resolution request.

Token generation and management

Processing per-use requests for user data is disclosed, including: receiving a use-specific request to read a set of user data; determining whether to grant the use-specific request based at least in part on an access policy associated with an accessor definition associated with the use-specific request; and in response to a determination to grant the use-specific request, transforming the set of user data based at least in part on the accessor definition.

Processing per-use requests for user data

An online system enables developers of third-party applications to specify online system users to receive advertisements. The online system generates and sends a user-specific identifier for online system users that use a third-party application when an advertiser associated with the third-party application requests a user-specific identifier from the online system. For example, the online system retrieves user identifying information associated with a client device identifier provided by an advertiser and generates a user identifier by encrypting the retrieved user identifying information. The advertiser may include one or more user-specific identifiers in an advertisement request sent to an online system to present an advertisement in the advertisement request to online system users corresponding to the user-specific identifiers. The online system determines whether to present the advertisement to users based in part on whether users correspond to user-specific identifiers included in the advertisement request.

Targeting advertisements to customized groups of users of an online system

Techniques for in-app user data authorization are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, a permissions component, and a token component. The permissions component may be operative on the processor circuit to receive a request from an application to perform a task on a device and to return a response to the request to the application based on active permissions for the application. The token component may be operative on the processor circuit to manage a token database and to determine the active permissions for the application based on the token database. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for in-app user data authorization

A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Third party operators utilize a tool provided by the social networking system to define the structure of actions and objects. External actions are recorded by the social networking system for publishing to the social graph.

Tool for creating structured objects and actions on a social networking system

A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. External system operators include widgets that, when executed by user devices, record user interactions that correspond to a defined structure of actions and objects. Third party operators utilize a tool provided by the social networking system to define the structure of actions and objects, verb tenses of action types, and noun forms object types. External actions are recorded by the social networking system for publishing to the social graph in dynamically generated sentences formed using the structure of the actions and objects.

Dynamic sentence formation from structured objects and actions in a social networking system

Structured objects and actions on a social networking system

A social networking system includes a mechanism for integrating user actions on objects outside of the social networking system in the social graph. For example, streaming music on external systems may be integrated into the user experience on the social networking system. Third-party developers, in addition to administrators of the social networking system, may define objects and actions that enable integration of external music sources to be played and controlled using the social networking system while also providing socially relevant information to other users of the social networking system. Actions and objects recorded from these external user interactions are structured to enable aggregation and structured querying, which enables data visualizations of the information discoverable on the social graph. In this way, interesting information about users' actions outside of the domain of the social networking system may be shared and compared with other users on the social networking system.

Integrating structured objects and actions generated on external systems into a social networking system

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Vladimir Fedorov