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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2011
Kelly Winters, San Francisco, CA (US);
BO HU, San Jose, CA (US);
Emily Clark White, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Koun Han, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kelly Winters, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bo Hu, San Jose, CA (US);
Emily Clark White, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Koun Han, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A social networking system acts as a platform for distributing deals from one or more deal providers. The users of the social networking system can interact with information describing the deals via a dashboard user interface provided by the social networking system. When users purchase deals on the social networking system's platform, the social networking system receives a portion of the deal price called the platform share and compensates the users for purchasing deals via the social networking system. The compensation may be funded from the revenue received by the social networking system for the purchases (the platform share). The compensation provided to a user may depend on social information associated with the user, such as the number of the user's connections also participating in the deal.