Structured information about nodes on a social networking system

摘要

Structured information about nodes may be generated and shared using sub-nodes. A node in a social networking system may be associated with sub-nodes that are definable by the node owner, such as menu items for a restaurant or songs in playlists for an artist. Users of the system may interact with the sub-nodes, and the interactions may be presented back on the page to a user, aggregated according to the user's connections in the social networking system (e.g., which songs your friends listened to the most by the artist, which menu items were consumed the most). Users may associate other sub-nodes to the node, such as identifying other menu items served by a restaurant, and the node owner may confirm these associations. Location awareness functionalities may be used to inform a user of highly recommended sub-nodes nearby as indicated by other users of the social networking system.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
maintaining a plurality of nodes in a social networking system, where the plurality of nodes represent a plurality of entities and concepts in the social networking system; maintaining, in the social networking system, a plurality of sub-nodes of the plurality of nodes; generating a plurality of associations between the plurality of sub-nodes and the plurality of nodes, comprising:
retrieving a plurality of attributes about a specified node of the plurality of nodes;determining a subset of the plurality of sub-nodes matching the plurality of attributes about the specified node; andfor each sub-node of the determined subset, storing an association between the sub-nodes and the specified node in the social networking system; receiving, from a user device associated with a viewing user of the social networking system, information identifying a particular sub-node of the plurality of sub-nodes; retrieving one or more particular nodes of the plurality of nodes associated with the particular sub-node related to the received information identifying the particular sub-node; determining, based on the plurality of associations, which of a plurality of users is connected to the viewing user in the social networking system; determining a number of interactions between the users connected to the viewing user and the particular sub-node; providing a suggestion for display on the user device to the viewing user, the suggestion including the one or more particular nodes associated with the particular sub-node with the highest determined number of interactions between the users connected to the viewing user and the associated particular sub-node.