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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 10, 2017
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Robert Michael Baldwin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Luke Dennis Walsh, London, GB;

Joel Micha Krebs, London, GB;

Connor Treacy, Lisburn, IE;

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6209 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06F 21/31 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) acquiring, from a user of a social networking system, a hyperlink to a protected content item, hosted by a content provider system, that is protected by an authentication protocol, (2) sending a request for metadata associated with the protected content item to the content provider system, where the request includes authentication information associated with the authentication protocol, (3) receiving, in response to the content provider system approving the request, metadata associated with the protected content item from the content provider system, where the metadata includes information sufficient to generate a preview of the protected content item, and (4) generating a preview of the protected content item based on the metadata received from the content provider system. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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