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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2007
Ryo Chijiiwa, Cerritos, CA (US);
Ryo Chijiiwa, Cerritos, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A module hosting and content generation platform in a social network site. In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving, from a network application, one or more module requests for module output data, wherein each module request includes a module identifier, an instance identifier, and user identifier, a module identifier; retrieving configuration information from the user configuration data store based on each of the one or more module requests; retrieving a module view definition from the module data store; generating the module output data by merging user configuration data with the retrieved module view definition; and performing additional processing operations based on the view type associated with the module; and transmitting the module output data to the network application.