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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:
Jan. 27, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2011
Applicants:

Daniel Mccaffrey, San Bruno, CA (US);

Kevin A. Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kenneth Rudin, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Yan Zhang, Foster City, CA (US);

Ananda Ghosh, Oakland, CA (US);

Inventors:

Daniel McCaffrey, San Bruno, CA (US);

Kevin A. Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kenneth Rudin, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Yan Zhang, Foster City, CA (US);

Ananda Ghosh, Oakland, CA (US);

Assignee:

Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); A63F 13/40 (2014.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); A63F 13/30 (2014.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/10 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); A63F 13/12 (2013.01); A63F 2300/535 (2013.01); A63F 2300/556 (2013.01);
Abstract

Social network information of a player of a computer-implemented game is accessed to analyze a social interaction of the player with other players from the social network information to recommend other players of the social network of the player to further communicate with. A recommendation of other players is generated to the player based on a frequency of the social interaction. A selection of players from the recommendation is received from the player. A communication message is generated to the selected players.


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