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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:
Jul. 09, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 19, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Alexander Paul Schultz, San Francisco, CA (US);

Thomas Alison, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0255 (2013.01); G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0269 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0276 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0277 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a social-networking system accesses a social graph, receives a request to generate an advertisement of a third-party application, identifies a set of objects associated with the third-party application, wherein each identified object has been interacted with by one or more first users of an online social network, one or more second users of the online social network, wherein each second user is connected on the online social network with at least one of the first users, and sends to one or more client devices of one or more of the second users, respectively, an advertisement of the third-party application, wherein for each second user the advertisement contains a reference to at least one of the identified objects that has been interacted with by at least one of the first users.


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