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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2012
Benjamin Peter Davenport, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lucy Congyun Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jonathan David Perlow, San Francisco, CA (US);
Justin Alexander Shaffer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Benjamin Peter Davenport, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Lucy Congyun Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jonathan David Perlow, San Francisco, CA (US);
Justin Alexander Shaffer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A social networking system identifies an event based on a thread including messages from users of the social networking system and communicates invitations to the event to one or more invited users. The social networking system receives a response to an invitation from a responding user and identifies a group of users invited to the event that have not responded to the invitation. From the users invited to the event that have not responded to the invitation, a subset of users having a threshold affinity to the responding user are selected. The social networking system notifies the subset of users of the responding user's response to the invitation and may also provide the subset of users with a suggestion for attending the event.