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Dynamic enforcement of privacy settings by a social networking system on information shared with an external system
US8955145B2 · US · B2
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Publication number | US-8955145-B2 |
| Application number | US-201414266300-A |
| Country | US |
| Kind code | B2 |
| Filing date | Apr 30, 2014 |
| Priority date | Jul 23, 2009 |
| Publication date | Feb 10, 2015 |
| Grant date | Feb 10, 2015 |
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An external system (such as a website) that interacts with users communicates with a social networking system to access information about the users, who may also be users of the social networking system. If a privacy setting is changed in the social networking system, and the change applies to information that has been shared with an external system, the change is enforced at the external system. For example, the external system may be notified that the information is invalid and must be deleted, or the external system may periodically request the information so that changes to the privacy settings are eventually experienced at the external systems. When an external system again needs the information, whether expired naturally or actively invalidated by the social network, the external system sends a new request for the information, which is subject to the (possibly revised) privacy settings.
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What is claimed is: 1. A computer implemented method comprising: maintaining a user account for each of a plurality of users of a social networking system, each user account comprising social network information associated with a respective user of the plurality of users; establishing a plurality of connections, each connection between two or more of the user accounts; maintaining, by the social networking system, one or more privacy settings for a subject user of the pluralit…
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Physics · mapped topic
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Electricity · mapped topic
Electricity · mapped topic
Electricity · mapped topic
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- What does patent US8955145B2 cover?
- An external system (such as a website) that interacts with users communicates with a social networking system to access information about the users, who may also be users of the social networking system. If a privacy setting is changed in the social networking system, and the change applies to information that has been shared with an external system, the change is enforced at the external syste…
- Who is the assignee on this patent?
- Facebook Inc
- What technology area does this patent fall under?
- Primary CPC classification G06F21/6245. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
- When was this patent published?
- Publication date Tue Feb 10 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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- We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).