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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:
Feb. 09, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 18, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Samuel Wharton Lessin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Robert M. Baldwin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeffrey Huang, San Carlos, CA (US);

Timothy A. Stanke, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Caitlin Rothrock Winner, Craryville, NY (US);

Matthew Vincent Sain, South Turramurra, AU;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/22 (2013.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user of an online social network, a request for a user-list, generating a structured query corresponding to the user-list, where the structured query is selected from a plurality of structured queries, and identifying one or more second users of the online social network that match the structured query and have a social connection or non-social connection with the first user. The social connection between the first user and the second user being based on social interactions on the online social network. The non-social connection between the first user and the second user being based on non-social interactions on a third-party application on the client system and being accessed by the online social network from the third-party application. The method includes sending, to the client system, instructions for displaying the user-list to the first user.


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