OBTAINING SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER ACTIONS FROM VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS ENCODING ACTION CHARACTERISTICS

摘要

A user of a social networking system performs an action with a device associated with a terminal, and based on the action, the terminal displays a visual representation of machine-readable code (e.g., a QR code) that encodes information about the action or a link to a source for obtaining such information. The user captures the machine-readable code with a mobile device, and an application on the device obtains the information describing the action from the machine-readable, associates the information with the user's identifier and communicates the information and user identifier to the social networking system. Using the information describing the action, the social networking system may then publish an action, add to the user's user profile, and/or perform other tasks based on the received information.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
capturing a visual representation of a machine-readable code from a terminal, the machine-readable code encoding a description of an action performed at the terminal; decoding information about the action from the machine-readable code; associating a user identifier with the description of the action, the user identifier corresponding to a user of the social networking system; and transmitting the information about the action and the user identifier to the social networking system for storing the description of the action and a connection between the information about the action and a user profile of the user.