Snap Inc.

John Trent DiBacco

Matthew Alan Jones

Virgil L Archer, Iii

Bernardo Perez

Described herein is an application-to-friend data service for constructing and maintaining an application-to-friend index. The data service has a first service component that is triggered when an end-user opens an application. The first service component performs operations to update the database table with current data concerning other end-users who are friends of the end-user on whose behalf the data service has been invoked. The data service includes a second service component to receive and process a query by efficiently returning, for a given end-user and a given application, a list of connections or friends of the given end-user who are also end-users of the application.

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Lake Forest, CA, United States of America

John Trent DiBacco