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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:
Oct. 01, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 20, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Yiting Li, Milpitas, CA (US);

Chao Teng, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Yiyu Li, Mountain View, CA (US);

Zhengxiao Cao, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 41/0686 (2013.01); H04L 51/00 (2013.01); H04L 67/26 (2013.01); H04W 4/12 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication of an occurrence of a triggering event for one or more notifications relevant to one or more users. The notifications are sent to one or more of the users through one or more of a number of notifications channels, and each notification channel is associated with one or more software applications. The method also includes accessing a number of notification policies associated with the software applications. Each of the software applications has at least one associated notification policy. At least one of the notification policies associated with a first one of the software applications is interrelated with at least one other notification policy associated with a second one of the software applications. The method also includes sending one or more notifications to one or more users through one or more of the number of notification channels.


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