Tagging Users of a Social Networking System in Content Outside of Social Networking System Domain

摘要

Users of a social networking system can tag other users in content items that are provided outside of the social networking system, such as pictures that are viewable on a website that is external to the social networking system. To enable a user to tag another user in a content item, an external system provides a user interface that enables the user to tag another user, optionally define a portion of the content item in which the tagged user appears, and provide an identity of the tagged user. The external system communicates with the social networking system to provide the tagging information to the social networking system. The tagging information is received by the social networking system, which imports the content item and displays the content item with the tagging information to other users in the social networking system.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing, by a social networking system to a user device, a user interface comprising user interface elements for receiving tagging information associated with a content item hosted by a system external to the social networking system and the user device, the tagging information identifying one or more tagged users of the social networking system, and the tagging information identifying the content item at the system external to the social networking system; receiving the tagging information from the user interface; and storing the tagging information in connection with the content item in the social networking system.