Facebook, Inc.

Derek Chirk Yin Cheng

Bowen Pan

Oliver Shijie Zheng

Francesco Fogu

Stephen Moore Davis

Edward Kenneth O'Neil

Christina Joan Sauper

Christopher Chun-Ning Pan

Ming Fei Li

Shuo Song

Prakash Ahuja

Sean Michael Wiese

Kwok Ngai Eric Lo

Lui Lui Wong

Christopher Richard Tanner

Karandeep Anand

Samuel Hoang

Pin Lu

A client device provides to a user, in an application associated with a social-networking service provided by a server system, a link to a page associated with a third-party service provider. The third-party service provider is distinct from the social-networking service. In response to user selection of the link, the page is loaded within the application. The page includes script for calling one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) of the server system. The client device calls the one or more APIs to obtain information associated with the user from the server system. The client device displays the page within the application, and uses the information associated with the user to conduct a transaction with the third-party service provider through the page.

Methods and systems for accessing third-party services within applications

The present disclosure is directed towards systems and method for providing referrals for providers of various products to users of a social networking system. In particular, the systems and methods described herein involve receiving a message from a user of a social networking system intended for a plurality of recipients and determining that the message includes a request for a referral of a product of a product. In addition, the systems and methods include providing one or more referred providers to the user and enabling the user to select an option that facilitates communication between the user and one or more of the referred providers.

Providing referrals to social networking users

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for managing commerce related groups and communications within a social networking system. For example, systems and methods described herein can identify characteristics of social networking system groups and posts, and determine, based on the identified characteristics, whether the social networking system groups and posts are for-sale groups and sale listings, respectively.

Managing commerce groups and posts in a social networking system

An online system receives an advertisement ('ad') request identifying an application, one or more items for use within the application, ad content, and a prompt for purchasing one or more of the items. The prompt for purchasing an item comprises text or image data describing the purchasing and instructions that, when executed by a client device, request payment information from a user accessing the prompt. When the ad content is presented to a user, the prompt is also presented. When the user interacts with the prompt, payment information is requested and communicated to a third party system associated with the application. The ad content and prompt may be presented to the user within a feed of content items provided to the user by the online system.

Prompting a user to purchase items for use in an application in a feed of content provided by an online system

The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for managing commerce-related communications within a social networking system. For example, systems and methods described herein can identify a particular social networking system post and can generate an optimized version of that particular post. In one or more embodiments, systems and methods described herein can also identify additional social networking system posts that are related to the particular social networking system post.

Managing commerce-related communications within a social networking system

One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for improving a user experience for performing transactions between potential buyers and sellers online via real-time communications. For example, a social marketplace system enables a potential buyer to initiate a real-time communication with a seller without the potential buyer having to provide contextual information regarding the item to the seller. In one or more embodiments, the social marketplace system provides a banner, in connection with the real-time communication, populated with structured data associated with the item that the potential buyer and the seller are discussing.

Providing structured data in real-time communications

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Issaquah, WA, United States of America

Derek Chirk Yin Cheng