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Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 19, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Guilherme Oliverira Campos, Duvall, WA (US);

Heesang Ju, San Francisco, CA (US);

James Caruso, Seattle, WA (US);

Calvin Patrick Grunewald, Issaquah, WA (US);

Kevin Miller, Seattle, WA (US);

Leif Erik Foged, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/31 (2014.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); A63F 13/493 (2014.01); A63F 13/5375 (2014.01); A63F 13/46 (2014.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.01); A63F 13/798 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/87 (2014.09); A63F 13/46 (2014.09); A63F 13/493 (2014.09); A63F 13/5375 (2014.09); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/146 (2013.01); H04L 67/20 (2013.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.09); A63F 13/798 (2014.09);
Abstract

This disclosure is directed to enabling access to a game instance through a social network system. A client-side player component facilitates communication between a game instance on the client device and a backend server of a social networking system. The communication information can be stored in or retrieved from a social graph of the social networking system. The game instance can be initialized from a social platform of the social networking system, and the game can be played without leaving a social network application.


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