Social networking management server
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsLING JUN WONG, TRUE XIONG
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Abstract
A social media management server (MS) provides a single authentication point for a client device to log in to multiple social networking accounts. Through the MS, the client device can pull social networking updates to it or have them pushed to the client device. Also, the MS provides a set of APIs for all enabled client devices to interact with social networking sites/services. The MS updates APIs between itself and the social networking sites/services without changing the APIs between itself and client devices in that only mandatory changes in the MS-to-social networking servers APIs are propagated to the APIs between the MS and client devices to reduce the API update requirements on the client side.
Claims20
Computing device comprising:
- processor;
- video display controlled by the processor, the processor presenting on the video display a user interface (UI) to enable a user to manage plural social networking accounts, the processor sending to a management server (MS) information related to plural social networking site accounts in which a user of the client device is enrolled, the client device subsequently logging in to the plural social networking accounts by a single login with the MS.
A social media management server (MS) providing a single authentication point for a client device to log in to multiple social networking accounts, the MS providing a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for the client device to interact with social networking servers (SS), the MS updating at least some APIs between itself and the SS without changing APIs between itself and the client device in that only mandatory changes in MS-to-SS APIs are propagated to APIs between the MS and client device.
Method comprising:
- using a management server (MS) as a single login gateway for a client to log in to plural social networking site servers (SS) using a single user name and password sent to the MS;
- and
- updating application programming interfaces (API) between the MS and client device responsive to a determination that an API between the MS and a SS has been changed with a mandatory change and not updating API between the MS and client device responsive to a determination that an APT between the MS and a SS has been changed with a non-mandatory change.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.