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Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017

Filed:

May. 26, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Robert Michael Baldwin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Henry Bridge, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew Bush, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06N 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06N 7/005 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 10/109 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Social networking system users may create events where a group of other users invited to the event meet at a specified time and location. The social networking system suggests users to invite to an event based on a prediction that the users would attend the event if invited. Various factors may be used to make the prediction, such as an affinity between the inviting user and the other users, the availability of the other users at the time of the event and/or the proximity of the other users to the location of the event. An inviting user receives the suggested users and selects suggested users to invite to the event or invitations may be automatically sent to the suggested users by the social networking system.


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