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Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 29, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Chaochao Cai, Bellevue, WA (US);

Goran Predovic, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/285 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method for determining reach of a content item that is displayed on one or more client devices associated with at least one unresolved identifier. An unresolved identifier defines a context in which a client device accesses one or more online systems, the context not determined to be associated with a specific user. The method comprises identifying a set of unresolved identifiers, and identifying information describing one or more access events associated with each unresolved identifier. For each pair of unresolved identifiers, a similarity score for the pair is determined based on the identified information. Responsive to the similarity score exceeding a threshold similarity score, the pair of unresolved identifiers is clustered, the clustering indicating a prediction that the pair of unresolved identifiers are associated with a common user. Finally, for the reach of the displayed content item is determined based on the clustering of the set of unresolved identifiers.


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