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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Deborah Liu, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Nipun Mathur, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vijaye Raji, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
A social networking system presents suggestions to a user of a social networking system to use or install one or more applications accessible in the system. The social networking system offers suggestions by ranking candidate applications for a particular user and selecting applications to recommend based on the rankings. Advertisers associated with some applications may bid to boost the rankings of an application, making it more likely to appear for a given user.