Facebook, Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Stephen Moore Davis

Vipan Reddy Raja Nalla

Brian Paihan Sa

Jireh Yiwei Tan

Nikola Vilimonovic

Aaron Payne Goldsmid

Michelle Vautier Chernyavsky

Francesco Fogu

Jeremy David Fein

Bowen Pan

Derek Chirk Yin Cheng

Shuo Song

Kwok Ngai Eric Lo

Lui Lui Wong

Christopher Richard Tanner

John Hamilton Butterfield

Samantha Wu

Jeffrey Scott David Breudecheck

Jia-An Koo

Xunjie Yu

Aaron Alexander Sarnoff

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first query comprising one or more n-grams inputted by the first user at the client system, accessing by the client system a plurality of ideograms each being associated with one or more tags matching at least one of the n-grams of the first query, where the one or more ideograms are ranked in an order based on their respective user-probabilities each being calculated based at least in part on a frequency of use associated with the respective ideogram, presenting one or more of the ideograms at the client system in ranked order where each ideogram is selectable by the first user, and receiving a selection of one of the presented ideograms at the client system.

Searching for ideograms in an online social network

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for enabling peer to business payments using an integrated payment and messaging system. In particular, the integrated payment and messaging system allows users to send electronic payments as well as exchange messages with a merchant. The integrated payment and messaging system can improve security by allowing a user to make a purchase without having to provide sensitive financial information to the merchant. In addition, the integrated payment and messaging system can allow a user to make a payment for an order seamlessly during a conversation with the merchant.

Facilitating sending and receiving of peer-to-business payments

In one embodiment, a method includes determining a first set of users associated with a first geographic area; and determining one or more second sets of users. For each second set of users the users in the second set are associated with one of a number of second geographic areas and the users in the second set interact with the first set of users. The method also includes, for each second set of users, computing a mutual-interaction metric between the first set of users and the second set of users based on an amount of interaction between the users in the first set and the users in the second set; and determining, based on the mutual-interaction metric, a geographic-area cluster that comprises the first geographic area and one or more of the second geographic areas. The geographic-area cluster represents a user community that spans the first and second geographic areas.

Geographic-area cluster

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for sending and receiving payments using an integrated payment and messaging system. In particular, the integrated payment and messaging system allows users to send and receive electronic payments as well as exchange messages. Additional implementations involve facilitating payment transaction by inferring payment events. Still further implementations involve facilitating payment transactions between groups of users. In addition to the foregoing, one or more implementations allow a user to initiate payment transactions without first providing a payment credential.

Facilitating sending and receiving of payments using message-based contextual prompts

One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods providing improved customer service to visiting customers of a brick-and-mortar merchant location. For example, a customer recognition system intelligently detects and notifies a merchant when a customer is in need of assistance based on the customer's facial expression. The customer recognition system can also identify a product associated with the customer need. In some examples, the customer recognition system identifies a user profile associated with a customer shopping at a merchant location, determines a trust level for the customer based on user profile information, and based on the trust level, causes a secured product display to provide a customer access to a secured product.

Method, system, and computer-readable medium for using facial recognition to analyze in-store activity of a user

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for facial recognition identification for in-store payment transactions. In particular, a payment system allows a user to engage in a payment transaction with a merchant to purchase goods or services at an in-store checkout location. For example, one or more implementations involve receiving a payment request to initiate an in-store payment transaction between a user and a merchant, the payment request including an image of the user. One or more embodiments identify a payment account for the user based on the image and send a payment confirmation request to a client device of the user. Additionally, one or more embodiments process the in-store payment transaction based on a confirmation response received from the client device.

Facial recognition identification for in-store payment transactions

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for sending and receiving payments using an integrated payment and messaging system. In particular, the integrated payment and messaging system allows users to send and receive electronic payments as well as exchange messages. For example, one or more implementations involve facilitating message exchanges and payment transactions using push notifications via separate message and payment queues. To illustrate, one or more implementations involve pushing status updates to a payment transaction using a payment queue specific to a user. Additionally, one or more implementations involve associating payment transactions with messages within a messaging thread for providing updates to each user in the messaging thread.

Facilitating sending, receiving, and updating of payments using message and payment queues

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

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first query inputted by a first user at a first client system, the first query including one or more n-grams; identifying ideograms, each ideogram being associated with one or more tags, each identified ideogram being associated with at least one tag matching at least one of the n-grams of the received first query; calculating, for each identified ideogram, a use-probability for the ideogram given the received first query, wherein the use-probability is based at least in part on a frequency of use associated with the ideogram; and sending, to the first client system, instructions for presenting a first set of ideograms comprising one or more of the identified ideograms, the first set being determined based on the calculated use-probabilities associated with the ideograms.

One or more embodiments described herein include methods and systems for remitting funds via a social networking system. More specifically, systems and methods described herein provide users the ability to remit funds to co-users utilizing social network profiles and notifications. Additionally, systems and methods described herein determine one or more risk levels for a remittance request based on a variety of social network factors.

Obtaining recipient information during an electronic remittance transaction

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for sending and receiving payments using an integrated payment and messaging system. In particular, the integrated payment and messaging system allows users to send and receive electronic payments as well as exchange messages. For example, one or more implementations involve facilitating same day push-to-debit payment transactions between a user and a co-user. To illustrate, one or more implementations involve sending a push-to-debit request to credit funds for the payment amount of the payment transaction to a debit card of a co-user, the push-to-debit request being formatted for same day processing.

Facilitating same day payment transactions

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query inputted at a mobile device of a user of an online social network. The query may include n-grams (e.g., words, emoticons, and punctuation marks), and may be, for example, a message to another user or search terms. N-grams may be mapped to tags, which may, in turn, be mapped to ideograms (i.e., stickers). One or more ideograms may be identified based on the one or more ideogram being associated with tags matching n-grams of the query. For each of the identified ideograms, a probability quantifying how likely the user is to select the ideogram is calculated based on how frequently the ideogram has been used. A set of ideogram suggestions, including one or more of the identified ideograms, is generated based on the probabilities and sent to the user's mobile device for display to the user.

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Stephen Moore Davis