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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:
May. 17, 2022

Filed:

May. 23, 2019
Applicant:

Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventor:

Rituraj Kirti, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 16/9035 (2019.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2365 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 16/9035 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

An online system receives third party user identifying information. The online system accesses accuracy measures associated with each of a plurality of the user identifying information sets. The online system identifies high accuracy sets of user identifying information that include the one or more types of user identifying information included in the received types of the third party user identifying information. The online system identifies as high confidence matches those local users of the online system having the high accuracy sets of user identifying information that match a corresponding set of third party user identifying information for the plurality of third party users. The online system also identifies as low confidence matches, and identifies as similar matches those of the low confidence matches that have a measure of similarity to one or more of the high confidence matches that is beyond a threshold measure of similarity.


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