Export permissions in a claims-based social networking system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9201836-B2
Application number	US-201213646354-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 5, 2012
Priority date	Oct 5, 2012
Publication date	Dec 1, 2015
Grant date	Dec 1, 2015

Abstract

A social graph, which records the actions of users in a social networking system platform, may be modeled at least in part as a collection of claims that may be exported to other systems, such as third party publishers, based on permissions granted by users and entities. The social networking system may also act as a publisher, enabling web applications and mobile applications to publish claims to a variety of audiences based on the permissions granted by users and entities, or agents of the social networking system. Permissions may be granted based on agreed-upon terms of service between agents, agents and publishers, agents and the social networking system platform, and publishers and the social networking system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving a terms of service agreement between an author agent and a publisher of a social networking system platform, the terms of service agreement including a plurality of terms for exporting claims generated by the author agent using the publisher to one or more external systems outside of the social networking system platform;
receiving a claim from the publisher, where the claim is authored by the author agent;
based on the te…

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Lessin Samuel

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q30/0248 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q30/0277

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L63/102

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F15/16 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic