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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2012
Arieh Steinberg, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Vijaye Ganesh Raji, Redmond, WA (US);
Jack O'connor, Kirkland, WA (US);
Arieh Steinberg, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Vijaye Ganesh Raji, Redmond, WA (US);
Jack O'Connor, Kirkland, WA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A third-party application running on a client device sends a request for a user's profile information to a local social networking application running on the client device. The local social networking application sends to the request to the social networking system, receives the requested information from the social networking systems, and provides the requested information to the third-party application. The third-party application uses at least a portion of the requested information to personalize its content for the user. In this way, the third-party application has a simple mechanism for incorporating personalized content for the user based on social information, without requiring the third-party application itself to maintain or even have access to the user's social information.