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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2019
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
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;
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
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.