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Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Aleksandar Ilic, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Florin Ratiu, Mountain View, CA (US);

John Torres Fremlin, San Francisco, CA (US);

David S. Park, Los Altos, CA (US);

Matthew William Kelly, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing for a user one or more electronic notifications that include information about a social network. The social network includes a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of edges, with at least one node corresponding to the user. The method further includes determining, for each of the electronic notifications, a score that estimates whether a user interaction with the social network will result if the electronic notification is provided to the user. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on the determined scores, an action to take with respect to the electronic notifications.


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