PERSONALIZING AN APPLICATION WITH CONTENT FROM A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM

摘要

A third-party application running on a client device sends a request for a user's profile information to a local social networking application running on the client device. The local social networking application sends to the request to the social networking system, receives the requested information from the social networking systems, and provides the requested information to the third-party application. The third-party application uses at least a portion of the requested information to personalize its content for the user. In this way, the third-party application has a simple mechanism for incorporating personalized content for the user based on social information, without requiring the third-party application itself to maintain or even have access to the user's social information.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
sending, by a first application running on a device, a request to an online system for content of a user of the device, the request originating from a third-party application running on the device, the first application being associated with the online system; receiving, by the first application, the requested content from the online system; and providing, by the first application to the third-party application, the requested content.