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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 26, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Erick Tseng, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/22 (2013.01); G06Q 10/101 (2013.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes sending a request from a first user for communication-channel information associated with a second user to a computing device, and receiving one or more user-selectable elements corresponding to each communication channel of a plurality of communication channels from the computing device, wherein the plurality of communication channels are determined based on an affiliation coefficient between the first user and the second user, wherein each communication channel is associated with a score calculated based on a social proximity between the first user and the second user, and wherein the one or more user-selectable elements corresponding to each communication channel of the plurality of communication channels are presented in an order ranked based on the respective score associated with the communication channel.


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