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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.

Patent No.:

US 9491133 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2015

Sharing television and video programming through social networking

Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Gregory Joseph Badros, Palo Alto, CA (US);

David Harry Garcia, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Mark Heynen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Brian Krausz, Mountain View, CA (US);

Cameron Alexander Marlow, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Michael John McKenzie Toksvig, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Erick Tseng, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

Robert Hance

Assistant Examiner:

William J Kim

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/478 (2011.01); H04N 21/63 (2011.01); H04N 21/23 (2011.01); H04N 21/4227 (2011.01); H04N 21/434 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/6543 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01); G06F 17/30277 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 65/1089 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/4092 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04N 21/23 (2013.01); H04N 21/258 (2013.01); H04N 21/25866 (2013.01); H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/4227 (2013.01); H04N 21/4344 (2013.01); H04N 21/4394 (2013.01); H04N 21/44008 (2013.01); H04N 21/478 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); H04N 21/47214 (2013.01); H04N 21/632 (2013.01); H04N 21/6543 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/8133 (2013.01);
Abstract

In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system determine information associated with a product displayed on a display device and access a database of known products. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine, by comparing the database of known products with the determined information associated with the product, an identity of the product displayed on the display device. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system provide one or more instructions to display media content related to the identified product.

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