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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2017
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrea Vaccari, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pooya Karimian, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lei Guang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Facebook, Inc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication a first user is accessing a game, wherein the first user has a first user identifier (ID); generating, based on the first user ID, a first hashed ID for the first user; providing the first hashed ID to a game bot associated with the game, the game bot being a software agent configured to act automatically on behalf of the game; receiving, from the game bot, a request to initiate a message thread between the game bot and the first user on a messaging application running on a first client system of the first user; and sending instructions for presenting the message thread on the messaging application, the message thread comprising one or more messages referencing in-game actions in the game.