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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:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 16, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Samuel Wharton Lessin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Robert M. Baldwin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeffrey Huang, Mountain View, CA (US);

Timothy A. Stanke, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Caitlin Rothrock Winner, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew Vincent Sain, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/22 (2013.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user of an online social network, a request for a user-list including one or more second users of the online social network. The method includes calculating, for each of the second users, a contact-score between the first user and the second user based on social interactions and non-social interactions between the users. The social interactions are interactions on the online social network visible to the first user based on privacy settings associated with the second user and the respective social interaction. The non-social interactions are interactions on a third-party application accessed by the online social network, shared based on a privacy setting associated with the third-party application. The method includes generating the user-list with references to second users having a contact-score above a threshold contact-score. The method includes providing instructions for displaying the user-list.


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