This Facebook patent lists Mark Zuckerberg as an inventor and is directed towards personalizing a web page outside of a social networking system with content from the social networking system that includes user actions. Mr. Zuckerberg was awarded U.S. Patent 8583738 entitled “Personalizing a web page outside of a social networking system with content from the social networking system that includes user actions” on November 12, 2013. The utility patent has been cited 1 times by other U.S. patents in the field of digital communication and in other fields.

A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user. Link: U.S. Patent 8583738

Facebook filed this utility patent on July 17, 2012 giving it a processing time of 483 days (compared to an average processing time of 716 in the field). They have a total number of 2008 patents. The first named inventor is Mark E. Zuckerberg of Palo Alto, CA. The patent was allowed by primary examiner Tesfay Yohannes and examiner .

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