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Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2011
Applicants:

Prashant Malik, Union City, CA (US);

Jiakai Liu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Andrew G. Bosworth, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Mountain View, CA (US);

Drew W. Hamlin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Daniel Hsiao, East Palo Alto, CA (US);

Kenneth M. Lau, Campbell, CA (US);

Ross David Bayer, Mountain View, CA (US);

Mark E. Zuckerberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Prashant Malik, Union City, CA (US);

Jiakai Liu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Andrew G. Bosworth, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Joel Benjamin Seligstein, Mountain View, CA (US);

Drew W. Hamlin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Daniel Hsiao, East Palo Alto, CA (US);

Kenneth M. Lau, Campbell, CA (US);

Ross David Bayer, Mountain View, CA (US);

Mark E. Zuckerberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 15/18 (2006.01); G06N 5/02 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/16 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01); G06F 15/18 (2013.01); G06N 5/025 (2013.01); H04L 51/08 (2013.01); H04L 51/36 (2013.01); H04L 69/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages.


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