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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:
Nov. 30, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 03, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Andrea Vaccari, San Francisco, CA (US);

Richard Kenneth Zadorozny, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Jeremy Harrison Goldberg, San Francisco, CA (US);

Peter Henry Martinazzi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Lei Guang, Bellevue, WA (US);

Li Yang, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jennifer A. Burge, Oakland, CA (US);

Assignee:

FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 (2006.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); A63F 13/79 (2014.01); A63F 13/2145 (2014.01); A63F 13/48 (2014.01); A63F 13/92 (2014.01); A63F 13/35 (2014.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); A63F 13/795 (2014.01); A63F 13/49 (2014.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/87 (2014.09); A63F 13/2145 (2014.09); A63F 13/35 (2014.09); A63F 13/48 (2014.09); A63F 13/49 (2014.09); A63F 13/79 (2014.09); A63F 13/795 (2014.09); A63F 13/92 (2014.09); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); A63F 2300/1075 (2013.01); A63F 2300/572 (2013.01); H04L 63/0421 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure is directed to enabling access to a game instance through a messenger application. A client-side player component facilitates communication between a game instance on the client device and a backend server of a social networking system. The communication information can be stored in or retrieved from a social graph of the social networking system. The game instance can be initialized from a social platform of the social networking system, and the game can be played without leaving the messenger application.


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