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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:
Jun. 17, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2022
Applicant:

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);

Inventors:

Virgil L. Archer, Iii, Los Angeles, CA (US);

John Trent DiBacco, Lake Forest, CA (US);

Matthew Alan Jones, Ladera Ranch, CA (US);

Bernardo Perez, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/25 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/245 (2019.01); G06Q 50/00 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/252 (2019.01); G06F 16/2379 (2019.01); G06F 16/245 (2019.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described herein is an application-to-friend data service for constructing and maintaining an application-to-friend index. The data service has a first service component that is triggered when an end-user opens an application. The first service component performs operations to update the database table with current data concerning other end-users who are friends of the end-user on whose behalf the data service has been invoked. The data service includes a second service component to receive and process a query by efficiently returning, for a given end-user and a given application, a list of connections or friends of the given end-user who are also end-users of the application.


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