Providing personalized platform application content

摘要

A social networking website maintains a profile for each user of the website. The profile includes data associated with a user, such as a connection to one or more plurality of other users of the social networking website or user preferences. The social networking website communicates with one or more third-party application servers to provide one or more applications to social networking website users. When a social networking website user requests an application provided by a third-party application server, the social networking website communicates a subset of the user's profile to the third-party application server, allowing the third-party application server to use this profile data to personalize the application performed for the user. A privacy setting associated with a user profile allows the social networking website to limit the profile data communicated to the third-party application server.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
transmitting, to a third-party application server, a request from a user of a social networking system to access an application on the third-party application server; receiving from the third-party application server a request for user profile data for generating personalized content for the user; providing to the third-party application server the requested user profile data from a user profile for the user maintained by the social networking system, subject to a privacy setting that indicates whether one or more items of data included in the user profile is shareable with the third-party application server; and receiving application content personalized for the user by the third-party application server based on the transmitted user profile data.