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Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Paul François Carduner, San Francisco, CA (US);

Samuel Raymond Odio, Portola Valley, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/403 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Users of a social networking system can tag other users in content items that are provided outside of the social networking system, such as pictures that are viewable on a website that is external to the social networking system. To enable a user to tag another user in a content item, an external system provides a user interface that enables the user to tag another user, optionally define a portion of the content item in which the tagged user appears, and provide an identity of the tagged user. The external system communicates with the social networking system to provide the tagging information to the social networking system. The tagging information is received by the social networking system, which imports the content item and displays the content item with the tagging information to other users in the social networking system.


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