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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2014
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Adam D'Angelo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dave Fetterman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Duplain Cheever, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Arieh Steinberg, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Zamore, Palo Alto, CA (US);
James H. Wang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Julie Zhuo, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Brookes Morin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark Slee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ruchi Sanghvi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method for providing a social context to software applications. According to one embodiment of the invention, a user of a social network authorizes access by an external software application to information available in the social network. At some time later, the user of the social network uses an application designed by a third-party software developer. The application contacts the social network provider for permission to access the information available in the social network. If access has been authorized, the application incorporates the information from the social network into its interaction with the user, providing a social context to the user's interaction with the application.