Tile, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Vijay Shankar

Yves Behar

Michael George Farley

John Mathew Depew

Christopher Sean Wheaton

Valentin Jean Charles Marcel Sollier

Richard Philip Sillman

Jason Duane Clark

John Stephen Ketchpaw

Ilya Sukhar

Ming Fei Li

Tracking device

An application linking framework provides cross-platform mobile application-to-application linking, including allowing linking into particular states in an application via a deep link presented in another application. When a client device receives a content item including a deep link, the client device can also receive a tracking request for tracking user interaction with an application associated with the content item or deep link in the content item via an application linking tool. The tool can also provide suggestions to an application owner of actions to take based on the analytics and can track advertisement conversions across applications.

Tracking analytic information for deep links between mobile applications executing on a client device

An application on a client device presents a content item to a user with a deep link that includes an application identifier that identifies an additional application on the client device and contains instructions that, when executed by the additional application, present a state of that additional application. When a user selects the deep link in the content item, the client device determines whether the additional application associated with the application identifier is installed on the client device and, if so, launches the additional application and communicates the instructions and a second deep link to the additional application. The second deep link includes an application identifier associated with the application and instructions describing a state of the application when the content item was presented.

Transmitting a state of a mobile application to an additional mobile application executing on a client device

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Vijay Shankar