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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2017
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jonathan Bradford Emerson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Salem Franklin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes a device receiving a request to create a group messaging thread to include at least three users. The device may determine that at least the first user, who is a minor, and the second user are not directly connected within a social graph. The device may instruct the messaging applications of the users to place the group messaging thread in a pending state. One or more approval requests may be sent to one or more recipients, respectively, for connecting the first user and the second user. When the requests are approved, the device may establish a connection between the first and second users in the social graph. Then, the device may determine that the first user is directly connected to both the second and third users, and instruct the messaging applications of the users to place the group messaging thread in an enabled state.