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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2017
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Sudhir Kumar Rama Rao, San Jose, CA (US);
Ara Nicholas Yessayan, Canton, MA (US);
Paul David Bettner, McKinney, TX (US);
David Bettner, McKinney, TX (US);
Paolo Malabuyo, San Mateo, CA (US);
Benjamin F. Gregorski, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Chow, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yie Lyn Choo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for processing recommendations of online games to friends of social network are described. A method for processing recommendations includes identifying a gaming session of a user on an online game provider network, accessing a use profile of the user for the online games of the online game provider network, and accessing a social graph of the user to identify friends of the user and respective friend profiles from the social network. The method further includes producing a recommendation of an online game. The recommendation includes an identification of a target friend of the user and is being provided by examination of the use profile of the user and friend profiles in the social graph. The method includes providing the recommendation to the user. The recommendation also includes an offer incentive to the user to share the recommendation with the target friend.