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Patent No.:

US 10558673 B1

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Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 12, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Han Gyul Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 61/1564 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for prospective contact ranking of address book entries are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client front-end component operative to receive a prospective contact display prompt from a client application on a client device, the client application associated with a user account; receive an address book from the client device, the address book comprising a plurality of address book entries; and send the ordered prospective contact list to the client application on the client device; a prospective contact list component operative to determine a prospective contact list based on the address book, the prospective contact list comprising a plurality of prospective contacts; and a contact ranking component operative to determine a ranking weight for each of the plurality of prospective contacts; and generate an ordered prospective contact list by ordering the prospective contact list based on the ranking weights. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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