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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Neel Ishwar Murarka, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Philip Fung, San Francisco, CA (US);
Niv Seker, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam Mosseri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Francis Luu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Carl Phillip Sjogreen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cory Rudolph Ondrejka, Pleasant Hill, CA (US);
Bret Steven Taylor, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes determining whether a user of the mobile computing device is currently actively using an application on the mobile computing device; and if the user is not currently actively using an application on the mobile computing device, then automatically and without user input providing for display to the user on the mobile computing device a user interface (UI) including a number of interactive elements that each correspond to one of a number of social-networking functionalities provided at least in part by a social-networking system remote from the mobile computing device.