Systems and methods for directing messages based on social data
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorMichael David Adkins
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive a request to send a message from a sender to a recipient. It can be determined that the sender and the recipient have at least a specified number of degrees of separation within a social network. The systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can acquire social data about at least one of a set of groups joined by the sender and the recipient, a set of events attended by the sender and the recipient, a set of locations visited by the sender and the recipient, or a set of common interests shared by the sender and the recipient. It can be determined whether to deliver the message to a primary inbox of the recipient based on the social data.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing system, a request to send a message from a sender to a recipient;
- delivering, by the computing system, the message from the sender to a secondary inbox of the recipient by default;
- determining, by the computing system, that the sender has not been reported, within a specified time period, to be associated with undesired content
- determining, by the computing system, a confidence score for the message based on social data, wherein the social data includes whether the sender and the recipient have not declined a friend request from one another;
- and
- upon the confidence score satisfying a specified threshold, delivering, by the computing system, the message to a primary inbox of the recipient.
A system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform:
- receiving a request to send a message from a sender to a recipient;
- delivering the message from the sender to a secondary inbox of the recipient by default;
- determining that the sender has not been reported, within a specified time period, to be associated with undesired content
- determining a confidence score for the message based on social data, wherein the social data includes whether the sender and the recipient have not declined a friend request from one another;
- and
- upon the confidence score satisfying a specified threshold, delivering, the message to a primary inbox of the recipient.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a request to send a message from a sender to a recipient;
- delivering the message from the sender to a secondary inbox of the recipient by default;
- determining that the sender has not been reported, within a specified time period, to be associated with undesired content
- determining a confidence score for the message based on social data, wherein the social data includes whether the sender and the recipient have not declined a friend request from one another;
- and
- upon the confidence score satisfying a specified threshold, delivering, the message to a primary inbox of the recipient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.