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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 08, 2016
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Omid Aziz, San Francisco, CA (US);

Bradley Wu, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ajay Ramamurthy, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Preeti Arunapuram, San Jose, CA (US);

Zhenhuan Zhou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Genevieve Yuriko Williams, San Francisco, CA (US);

Xiao Liang, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Matthew Ethan Warshauer, San Francisco, CA (US);

Tony Hsien-yu Liu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving a previous communication associated with a user on an online social network, the previous communication having been made on a date in the past; calculating a distribution-probability score for the previous communication reflecting a probability that the previous communication will be shared on the online social network by the user; and sending the previous communication to the user, wherein the distribution-probability score for the previous communication satisfies a threshold.


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