Automatic creator identification of content to be shared in a social networking system

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors in set of one or more processing devices, cause the set of one or more processing devices to implement a communication system and perform operations comprising:

• accessing a received resource identifier that identifies a resource including content that is to be shared with a set of one or more users of the communication system;
• transmitting, to a server end station, a request for the resource identified by the resource identifier;
• accessing, from the server end station, the resource identified by the resource identifier;
• automatically identifying a creator of the content based upon data within the received resource by:
• identifying an account of the creator of the content on the communication system, the account comprising information received from the creator of the content;
• accessing, from the information received from the creator of the content, an identifier;
• matching the identifier received from the creator of the content with an identifier from the received resource;
• identifying a first set of one or more candidate creators from the resource;
• identifying a second set of one or more candidate creators from user-submitted content provided by a set of one or more other users of the communication system describing or commenting upon the content;
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• identifying the creator of the content based upon a number of occurrences of each candidate creator in the first set of one or more candidate creators and a number of occurrences of each candidate creator in the second set of candidate creators;
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• transmitting a preview of the resource to be displayed to the set of one or more users on a set of one or more user devices, wherein the preview identifies the creator of the content and includes a selectable user interface element allowing the set of one or more users to interact with the account of the creator of the content within the communication system.

A communication system, comprising:

• a set of one or more network interfaces that,
• communicatively couples the communication system to a network, and
• receives a resource identifier that identifies a resource including content that is to be shared with a set of one or more users of the communication system;
• a resource retrieval module coupled to the set of one or more network interfaces that,
• transmits, to server end stations hosting the resources of the resource identified by the resource identifier, a request for the resource, and
• receives, from the server end stations, the resource identified by the resource identifier;
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• a content creator identification analysis module coupled to the resource retrieval module and the set of network interfaces that,
• automatically identifies a creator of the content from the received resource based upon data within the received resource by:
• identifying an account of the creator of the content on the communication system, the account comprising information received from the creator of the content;
• accessing, from the information received from the creator of the content, an identifier;
• matching the identifier received from the creator of the content with an identifier from the received resource;
• identifying a first set of one or more candidate creators from the resource;
• identifying a second set of one or more candidate creators from user-submitted content provided by a set of one or more other users of the communication system describing or commenting upon the content;
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• identifying the creator of the content based upon a number of occurrences of each candidate creator in the first set of one or more candidate creators and a number of occurrences of each candidate creator in the second set of candidate creators;
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• transmits a preview of the resource to be displayed to the set of one or more users via user devices of the set of one or more users, wherein each of the previews identifies the creator of the content and includes a selectable user interface element allowing the set of one or more users to interact with the account of the creator of the content within the communication system.