Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Implicit contacts in an online social network
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Application No.: US16444931Application Date: 2019-06-18
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Publication No.: US10917485B2Publication Date: 2021-02-09
- Inventor: Samuel Wharton Lessin , Robert M. Baldwin , Jeffrey Huang , Timothy A. Stanke , Caitlin Rothrock Winner , Matthew Vincent Sain
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04L12/58 ; G06Q50/00 ; G06Q10/00 ; G06Q10/10

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user of an online social network, a request for a user-list, generating a structured query corresponding to the user-list, where the structured query is selected from a plurality of structured queries, and identifying one or more second users of the online social network that match the structured query and have a social connection or non-social connection with the first user. The social connection between the first user and the second user being based on social interactions on the online social network. The non-social connection between the first user and the second user being based on non-social interactions on a third-party application on the client system and being accessed by the online social network from the third-party application. The method includes sending, to the client system, instructions for displaying the user-list to the first user.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190306261A1 Implicit Contacts in an Online Social Network Public/Granted day:2019-10-03
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