This Facebook patent lists Mark Zuckerberg as an inventor and is directed towards presenting personalized social content on a web page of an external system. Mr. Zuckerberg was awarded U.S. Patent 8775247 entitled “Presenting personalized social content on a web page of an external system” on July 8, 2014. The utility patent has been cited 4 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management and in other fields.

A social networking system generates socially-relevant stories for a user based on other users (e.g., based on actions taken by other users) to whom the user is connected. These socially-relevant stories, including news stories, social advertisements, etc., may be presented on a web page within a domain of an external system that is different from the domain of the social networking system. When a web page from an external system is requested for a viewing user, the social content about other users who are connected to the viewing user may be provided by the social networking system for that viewing user. This personalized social content may be presented in a frame (e.g., an iframe) of the external web page rendered and provided for display to the viewing user. Link: U.S. Patent 8775247

Facebook filed this utility patent on December 31, 2011 giving it a processing time of 920 days (compared to an average processing time of 750 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 Matthew T Sittner and examiner .

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