Facebook, Inc.

Kenneth M Lau

Andrew Garrod Bosworth

David Harry Garcia

Todd Christopher Jackson

William Russell Maschmeyer

Michael Novati

Bin Jiang

Mark E Zuckerberg

Ross David Bayer

Joel Benjamin Seligstein

Daniel Hsiao

Jonathan David Perlow

Peter Xiu Deng

Lucy Congyun Zhang

Benjamin Peter Davenport

Zheng Zhang

Drew Hamlin

Arun Dattaram Sharma

Thomas Scott Whitnah

Jiakai Liu

Alon Michael Shalita

Prashant Malik

Ben Gertzfield

Igor Kabiljo

Sizhe Chen

Ben Hamilton

Alexander Michael Laslavic

Richard Armbrust

In one embodiment, a request to share a message is received from a first user. The request includes a first location, the message, and note-access criteria for sharing the message based on one or more groups of second users. A particular second user is identified having a second location that is within a threshold distance of the first location. Based on the note-access criteria and one or more groups associated with the particular second user, it is determined that the message should be shared with the particular second user, the message is sent to the particular second user, and a location of the first user is determined to be within a predetermined distance from the first location. If the first user is currently within the predetermined distance, a notification is sent to the first user informing the first user that the message was sent to the particular second user.

Location aware sticky notes

Based on information associated with users, a social networking system recommends one or more groups for a target user to join or to create. Characteristics of the target user, characteristics of users connected to the target user, characteristics of candidate groups in the social networking system may be used to identify groups for recommendation. The social networking system may provide questions to the target user and recommend a group to the target user based on received answers to the questions. For example, the answers to the provided question identify one or more characteristics of the target user, which are used to select a group for recommendation. Additionally, the social networking system may recommend additional users for the target user to add or invite to a group based on characteristics of the target user, the additional users, and/or the group.

Recommending users to add to groups in a social networking system

In one embodiment, note is received from a first user, comprising a message and a first location. The first location may be specified by the first user. A number of second users are identified based on a respective second location of each identified second user being within a threshold distance of the first location. The message of the note is sent to the identified second users. When the message is sent, it is determined whether a current location of the first user is within a predetermined distance from the first location. If the current location is within the predetermined distance, a notification is sent to the first user informing the first user that the message has been sent to the identified second users.

A technology for routing traffic from similar users to a same server cluster to improve data center efficiency is disclosed. When a traffic routing server receives a request from a user, the traffic routing server determines an identifier of a partition to which the user is assigned. The user and many other users with whom the user shares a social attribute are co-located in the same partition. The traffic routing server then computes a hash of the identifier using a hash function and locates a server cluster on a consistent hash ring using the computed hash. The traffic routing server then sends the request from the user to that server cluster. By consistently sending requests from users assigned to the same partition to the same server cluster, the technology improves cache hit rates and reduces data duplication across the server clusters, which in turn improves datacenter efficiency.

Routing network traffic based on social information

A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages.

Organizing conversation threads based on social information

Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a request from a user to access content for a group of users of a social networking system, and send the content to the user including an interface to a third party system. The interface is to enable the user to retrieve information related to a third party service from the third party system to share with the group. The user sends the information related to the third party service to share with the group to the social networking system. The social networking system sends the shared information related to the third party service to a group member based on the group member requesting access to the content. In one embodiment, the third party service stores a file or folder on a third party server and the shared information includes a link to the shared file or folder.

Social networking groups as a platform for third party integration

A messaging system facilitates communication between users through various messaging channels. The messaging system supports multiple communication channels and includes a messaging module that automatically selects one or more of the messaging channels for delivering a message to a recipient of the message using, for example, a set of policy rules or a trained model. The messaging module may also provide, in a user interface for sending and receiving messages, a visual indication of the selected messaging channel to the sender of the message to provide the user with transparency about how the message will be delivered. Additionally, the message may be delivered via multiple messaging channels, where the messaging module may rescind messages from some of the messaging channels upon receiving a reply from the recipient of the message or other confirmation that the recipient has seen the message via one of the communication channels.

Messaging system with multiple messaging channels

In one embodiment, a request to create a note is received from a first user. The note includes a message and a first location of the first user. A note record is created of the message, the first location, and a first user-interest associated with the first user. A number of second users are identified based on second locations of the second users, and second user-interests associated with the second users. The message is sent to the identified second users. In response to sending the message, the current location of the first user is determined compared to the first location. If the first user is within a predetermined distance from the first location, a notification is sent to the first user indicating that the message has been sent to the second users.

In one embodiment, a request is received from a first user to create a location-triggered benefit that may be redeemed by a second user at a vendor and associated with a condition. The first user is not the vendor, and the condition may require that the second user go to a particular location. A record of the location-triggered benefit may be created in a database. Information may be received that the second user has satisfied the condition, and in response, the second user may be allowed to redeem the location-triggered benefit at the vendor.

Location aware deals

Group recommendations based on answered questions in a social networking system

In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system maintains a data store of shared space, wherein each shared space comprises one or more content objects, a location, and one or more privacy settings. The geo-social networking system allows a user read-access to a shared space based on privacy settings associated with the shared space. The geo-social networking system allows a user write-access to a shared space if the user is at the location associated with the shared space.

Location aware shared spaces

Recommending groups to create in a social networking system

In one embodiment, a computer system creates for a first user a location-triggered note specific for a second user and for a particular location, determines the second user's location, and transmits the location-triggered note to the second user if the second user is at the particular location.

Growing community of inventors

Campbell, CA, United States of America

Kenneth M Lau