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Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 13, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Andrea Vaccari, San Francisco, CA (US);

Pooya Karimian, Mountain View, CA (US);

Lei Guang, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/87 (2014.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.01); A63F 13/795 (2014.01); A63F 13/92 (2014.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01); A63F 13/79 (2014.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/87 (2014.09); A63F 13/30 (2014.09); A63F 13/35 (2014.09); A63F 13/79 (2014.09); A63F 13/795 (2014.09); A63F 13/92 (2014.09); H04L 51/02 (2013.01); H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/063 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/38 (2013.01); H04M 1/72552 (2013.01); H04M 1/72544 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a games tab on a messaging application running on a client system of a first user; identifying one or more games played by the first user; identifying, for each identified game, one or more message threads associated with the first user and the respective game; ranking the identified games based on one or more first criteria; ranking the one or more message threads associated with each identified game based on one or more second criteria; and sending instructions for presenting the games tab on the messaging application. The games tab may comprise a list of one or more of the identified games presented in ranked order, and, for each game, one or more message threads associated with the respective game presented in ranked order.


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