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Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Neel Ishwar Murarka, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Philip Fung, San Francisco, CA (US);

Raghavendar Chandrasekaran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes determining one or more applications on one or more first client computing devices of a first user of a social-networking system; determining one or more second users of the social-networking system that are connected to the first user within the social-networking system; determining one or more applications on one or more second client computing devices of the second users; comparing the applications on the first client computing devices with the applications on the second client computing devices; determining one or more application recommendations for the first user based at least in part on the comparison; and sending the application recommendations to the first user.


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