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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2013
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Loren Cheng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Edward Zagat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/00 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01);
Abstract
A social networking system obtains financial transaction activity for its users and allows its users to obtain reports of their spending compared to various benchmarks. The benchmarks may be for various demographic groups, networks to which the user belongs, groups of users connected to a user, or any other suitable grouping of users. The social networking system may also forecast a user's spending on a category based on the spending of other users who have similar spending profiles in other categories.