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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Neville Bowers, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ramkumar Vaidyantathan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Soham Mazumdar, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Patrick Linarducci, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Lee Linden, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ted Zagat, Menlo Park, CA (US);
FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
One variation of the first method includes: receiving a first gift order from a first sender through a social networking system, the first gift order specifying a recipient, a first merchant, and a first monetary value redeemable through the first merchant; issuing a tangible gift card to the recipient, the gift card linked to a gift account, of the recipient, within the social networking system; receiving a second gift order from a second sender through the social networking system, the second gift order specifying the recipient, a second merchant, and a second monetary value redeemable through the second merchant; linking the first and second monetary values to the gift account; and, in response to a first purchase from the first merchant with the gift card, publishing a detail of the first purchase to a feed within the social networking system in accordance with a privacy setting of the recipient.