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Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 25, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Neel Ishwar Murarka, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Philip Fung, San Francisco, CA (US);

Raghavendar Chandrasekaran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/025 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes identifying an application installed on a client device of a first user, and one or more second users of a social-networking system that are connected to the first user within the social-networking system. Data associated with the one or more second users may be determined. The data may indicate: a number of the one or more second users who have installed the identified application, or a number of uses of the identified application by the one or more second users over a pre-determined period of time. The data, which may be configured to be displayed on the client device with an interactive element associated with the application, may be sent to the client device of the first user.


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