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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2016
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Shane Hall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Daniel McCaffrey, San Bruno, CA (US);
Dylan Sproule, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ben Hall, Fairfield, CA (US);
Timothy J. O. Catlin, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jason Paul Allen, Seattle, WA (US);
Clayton Rhodes Stark, Victoria, CA;
Zynga Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for recommending and establishing connections between users within a gaming social network, designed for connecting users having common gaming interests or characteristics. Embodiments include methods for recommending connections from members of an out-of-game social network, the gaming social network, and gaming activity participants; evaluating user profile information and user characteristics in a gaming social network and gaming activity in a game networking system to determine an appropriate set of connections for a selected user; and presenting graphical user interface content and configurations to enable the suggestion, review, and accepting of recommended connections in the gaming social network.