Initiating Actions on a Third-Party System Through Interaction with a Social Networking System

摘要

By interacting with an interface element associated with a third-party system and presented by a social networking system, a user of the social networking system performs an action on the third-party system. For example, the interface element is displayed in a story describing content from the third-party system. The interface element is associated with an action performed on the third-party system, so when a user accesses the interface element a request to perform the action is sent from the social networking system to the third-party system. When the third-party system performs the action, a description of the action is sent back to the social networking system, which may present a confirmation of the action to the user. For example, the appearance of the interface element is modified to indicate that the action was performed.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving content from a third-party system for presentation to users of a social networking system, the third-party system associated with a domain different than a domain of the social networking system; generating a description of the content from the third party system, the description including at least one interface element associated with an action on the third-party system; presenting the description of the content including the at least one interface element to one or more users of the social networking system; and transmitting a request to perform the action on the third-party system responsive to receiving an interaction with the at least one interface element from a user.