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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2013
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
James H. Wang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Naomi Gleit, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peter H. Martinazzi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kiranjit S. Sidhu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lex Arquette, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey C. Wieland, Salisbury, MD (US);
Jennifer Burge, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jun Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alexander P. Schultz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Method or system for allowing a social networking system to retain users of a social networking system by identifying low-activity users who are likely to become inactive/dormant users and prompting users to initiate interactions with the low-activity users. The low-activity users are identified by monitoring activities and interactions of the users via the social networking system. If the pattern of activities and interactions satisfy one or more criteria, a computer device for providing the social networking system initiates an intervention scheme where users are induced to initiate interactions with the low-activity users. In response to the interactions, the low-activity users are likely to resume interactions via the social networking system.