ASSOCIATING FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS WITH A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER PROFILE

摘要

A social networking system associates a financial account identified by a user with a user profile maintained by the social networking system for the user. The social networking system may compensate the user for associating the financial account with the user profile by crediting the identified financial account by an amount. The credit may be applied to subsequent purchases by the user at a vendor identified by the user. To simplify vendor selection, the social networking system may suggest one or more candidate pages associated with vendors to the user. Information in a transaction history of the financial account and in the user profile may be used to identify the candidate pages, allowing the user to select a vendor with which the user has previously transacted by selecting a candidate page associated with the vendor.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving an account identifier for a financial account of a user of a social networking system, the financial account maintained by a financial account provider; associating the financial account identifier with a user profile for the user maintained by the social networking system; retrieving a transaction history for the user from the financial account provider using the received account identifier; identifying one or more candidate pages maintained by the social networking system based on at least one of the transaction history and the user profile, each candidate page associated with a vendor; presenting the one or more candidate pages to the user; receiving a selection of a candidate page associated with a selected vendor; and providing an identifier associated with the selected vendor and a credit amount to the financial account provider, the credit amount specifying an amount added to the financial account of the user.