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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. 16, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Florin Ratiu, Mountain View, CA (US);

Andrew Alexander Birchall, San Francisco, CA (US);

David S. Park, Los Altos, CA (US);

Aleksandar Ilic, Los Altos, CA (US);

Nathan Paul Schloss, San Francisco, CA (US);

Vasanth Kumar Rajendran, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Yiyu Li, Mountain View, CA (US);

Patrick Jonathan Varin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Branislav Stojkovic, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 51/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of activity relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated type. The method also includes calculating an interest of each activity to the user based at least in part on the type of each notification; ranking the notifications based at least in part on the calculated interest; and sending one or more of the notifications to the user. Each of the sent notifications has a ranking higher than a pre-determined threshold ranking.


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