Facebook, Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Lei Guang

Andrea Vaccari

Pooya Karimian

Jeremy Harrison Goldberg

Mikhail Larionov

Henri Romeo Liriani

Chih Shao Lee

Zhisheng Huang

Sarah Hum

Peter Henry Martinazzi

Jennifer A Burge

Richard Kenneth Zadorozny

Wei Zhang

Li Yang

Qunshu Zhang

Vladimir Shubin

Shuangtiao Huang

Yanhong Ju

Shaoqian Yuan

Pei Yue

Techniques for messaging bot controls based on machine-learning user intent detection are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a message queue monitoring component operative to monitor a messaging interaction, the messaging interaction exchanged via a messaging system, the messaging interaction involving at least one client device; an interaction processing component operative to determine a user intent for the messaging interaction; and a bot management component operative to determine a messaging bot options configuration for the client device based on the user intent; and send the messaging bot options configuration to the client device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for messaging bot controls based on machine-learning user intent detection

Techniques for efficient messaging client communication are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client front-end component of a messaging server operative to receive a protocol connect packet from a messaging client, the protocol connect packet initiating a client authentication process with the messaging client; and receive a message package from the messaging client, the message package received during the client authentication process; a client authentication component operative to perform the client authentication process with the messaging client; and a client message queueing component operative to queue the message package in an authorization-holding message queue in response to the message package being received during the client authentication process. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for efficient messaging client communication by updating user subscription stores based on subscription type and commands

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a first client system of a first user, a first notification that a second user has performed a first in-game action in a game session of a game; displaying, at the first client system, a game window associated with the game within a message thread on a messaging application running on the first client system, the game window comprising a live gameplay of the first in-game action and one or more interactive action buttons operable to allow the first user to perform one or more in-game actions; receiving, by the first client system, an indication of the first user performing a second in-game action via the one or more interactive action buttons; and sending, by the first client system to a second client system, a second notification that the first user has performed the second in-game action in the game session.

Gameplay threads in messaging applications

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user, a request for a games tab on an application of the messaging network running on the client system; providing, to the client system in response to the request, instructions for presenting the games tab comprising an initial list of games on the application of the messaging network based on one or more criteria; receiving game data associated with one or more games interacted with by the first user; determining whether the first user has satisfied a threshold level of gaming activity for updating the games tab; and providing, to the client system in response to determining that the first user has satisfied the threshold level of gaming activity, instructions for updating the games tab to re-sort the initial list of games based on the one or more games interacted with by the first user.

Games tabs in messaging applications

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, in a group conversation in a message thread on a messaging application, a request to access a game from inside the message thread from one or more users of a group of users associated with the message thread; generating an anonymized context identifier (ID) for the message thread; providing the context ID to a game bot associated with the game, the game bot being a software agent configured to act automatically on behalf of the game, the context ID being used by the game bot to interact with the group of users associated with the message thread; and sending, by the game bot using the context ID, instructions for presenting a game window within the message thread on one or more instances of messaging applications running on one or more client systems associated with the one or more users of the group.

Game channels in messaging applications

Display screen with a graphical user interface for games in messaging applications

This disclosure is directed to enabling access to a game instance through a messenger application. A client-side player component facilitates communication between a game instance on the client device and a backend server of a social networking system. The communication information can be stored in or retrieved from a social graph of the social networking system. The game instance can be initialized from a social platform of the social networking system, and the game can be played without leaving the messenger application.

Managing game sessions in a social network messaging system

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication a first user is accessing a game, wherein the first user has a first user identifier (ID); generating, based on the first user ID, a first hashed ID for the first user; providing the first hashed ID to a game bot associated with the game, the game bot being a software agent configured to act automatically on behalf of the game; receiving, from the game bot, a request to initiate a message thread between the game bot and the first user on a messaging application running on a first client system of the first user; and sending instructions for presenting the message thread on the messaging application, the message thread comprising one or more messages referencing in-game actions in the game.

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request, from a first client system of a first user, a request to play a game with a second user, the request being initiated from within a message thread in a first instance of a messaging application running on the first client system; sending, to a second client system of the second user, the request to play the game in the message thread in a second instance of the messaging application running on the second client system; receiving an indication the second user has accepted the request to play the game; and initiating a game session of the game between the first user and the second user in the message thread, the message thread being operable to allow the first user or the second user to perform one or more in-game actions in the game via the message thread.

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a games tab on a messaging application running on a client system of a first user; identifying one or more games played by the first user; identifying, for each identified game, one or more message threads associated with the first user and the respective game; ranking the identified games based on one or more first criteria; ranking the one or more message threads associated with each identified game based on one or more second criteria; and sending instructions for presenting the games tab on the messaging application. The games tab may comprise a list of one or more of the identified games presented in ranked order, and, for each game, one or more message threads associated with the respective game presented in ranked order.

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Lei Guang