Social context for applications

• US 9,680,789 B2
• Filed: 09/02/2015
• Issued: 06/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Murarka, Neel Ishwar, Fung, Philip, Chandrasekaran, Raghavendar
• Primary Examiner(s): JEAN GILLES, JUDE
• Application Number:
  US14/843,717
• Publication Number:
  US 20150381554A1
• Time in Patent Office: 650 Days
• Field of Search: 709204, 709206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes identifying one or more first users of the social-networking system that are connected to a second user within the social-networking system; inferring one or more applications of interest to the second user based at least in part on information associated with one or more applications installed on one or more client systems of the first users; generating one or more recommendations corresponding to one or more of the applications of interest to the second user; ranking the recommendations based on social-graph information of the second user relative to the one or more first users; and sending one or more of the ranked recommendations to one or more client devices of the second user.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by a computing device, identifying one or more first users of the social-networking system that are connected to a second user within the social-networking system;

by the computing device, inferring one or more applications of interest to the second user based at least in part on information associated with one or more applications installed on one or more client devices of the first users;

by the computing device, generating one or more recommendations corresponding to one or more of the applications of interest to the second user;

by the computing device, ranking the recommendations based on social-graph information of the second user relative to the one or more first users, wherein at least one of the recommendations is more heavily weighted based on a number of uses of the application corresponding to that recommendation over a pre-determined period of time by one or more of the first users; and

by the computing device, sending one or more of the ranked recommendations to one or more client devices of the second user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the social-networking system comprises a graph that comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes;

for each of the first users at least one node in the graph corresponding to the first user;

at least one node in the graph corresponding to the second user; and

at least one of the nodes corresponding to one of the first users and at least one of the nodes corresponding to the second user being connected to each other by one or more edges.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the social-graph information comprises a proximity of one or more of the nodes corresponding relative to the first users to the node corresponding to the second user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending of the ranked recommendations is in response to detecting the second user is interacting with a platform configured to distribute applications.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the social-graph information comprises information of installation activity of the first users on the platform.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the ranked recommendations comprises identifying information corresponding to one or more of the first users.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the application recommendations comprise an indication of a number of the first users that have installed one or more of the applications of interest.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more of the application recommendations comprise an interactive element corresponding to a particular application of interest and a badge indicating a number of the first users that have used the particular application of interest.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the inferring of the one or more applications of interest to the second user is based at least in part on determining one or more applications on the client device of the first users that are not installed on the client device of the second user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the ranked recommendations are dynamically aggregated as a newsfeed.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the ranked recommendations are periodically updated.

12. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software configured when executed to:

identify one or more first users of the social-networking system that are connected to a second user within the social-networking system;

infer one or more applications of interest to the second user based at least in part on information associated with one or more applications installed on one or more client devices of the first users;

generate one or more recommendations corresponding to one or more of the applications of interest to the second user;

rank the recommendations based on social-graph information of the second user relative to the one or more first users, wherein at least one of the recommendations is more heavily weighted based on a number of uses of the application corresponding to that recommendation over a pre-determined period of time by one or more of the first users; and

send one or more of the ranked recommendations to one or more client devices of the second user.

13. The media of claim 12, wherein:

the social-networking system comprises a graph that comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes;

for each of the first users at least one node in the graph corresponding to the first user;

at least one node in the graph corresponding to the second user; and

at least one of the nodes corresponding to one of the first users and at least one of the nodes corresponding to the second user being connected to each other by one or more edges.

14. The media of claim 13, wherein the social-graph information comprises a proximity of one or more of the nodes corresponding to the first users relative to the node corresponding to the second user.

15. A device comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to the processors and embodying software configured when executed to;

identify one or more first users of the social-networking system that are connected to a second user within the social-networking system;

infer one or more applications of interest to the second user based at least in part on information associated with one or more applications installed on one or more client systems of the first users;

generate one or more recommendations corresponding to one or more of the applications of interest to the second user;

rank the recommendations based on social-graph information of the second user relative to the one or more first users, wherein at least one of the recommendations is more heavily weighted based on a number of uses of the application corresponding to that recommendation over a pre-determined period of time by one or more of the first users; and

send one or more of the ranked recommendations to one or more client devices of the second user.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein:

the social-networking system comprises a graph that comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes;

for each of the first users at least one node in the graph corresponding to the first user;

at least one node in the graph corresponding to the second user; and

at least one of the nodes corresponding to one of the first users and at least one of the nodes corresponding to the second user being connected to each other by one or more edges.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the social-graph information comprises a proximity of one or more of the nodes corresponding to the first users relative to the node corresponding to the second user.