Suggesting Friends for Playing A Game
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsAndrew Hoskins, Anh Tuan Khuc
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Abstract
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems provide a suggested list of people for a user of a social network system to play a game with. A social networking system receives a trigger for providing the user access from a user device to the game over a network. The social networking system identifies a pool of people who have a personal connection with the user and who have not played the game before. From the pool of people, a suggested list of people is selected based on closeness to the user. The suggested list is sent to the user device for the user device for the user to selectively invite one or more of the people to play the game.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a social networking system, a trigger for providing a user of a social networking system access from a user device to a game over a network;
- identifying a pool of people who have a personal connection with the user and who have not played the game before;
- selecting a list of people from the pool of people based on closeness to the user in the personal connection;
- and
- sending the list of people to the user device for the user to selectively invite one or more of the people in the list to play the game.
A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, which when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform a method comprising:
- receiving, by a social networking system, a trigger for providing a user of a social networking system access from a user device to a game over a network;
- identifying a pool of people who have a personal connection with the user and who have not played the game before;
- selecting a list of people from the pool of people based on closeness to the user in the personal connection;
- and
- sending the list of people to the user device for the user to selectively invite one or more of the people in the list to play the game.
An apparatus comprising:
- a display;
- and
- a processing device coupled to the display, wherein the processing device is to execute instructions that cause the apparatus to:
- receive a list of people from a social networking system for a user to play a game with, wherein each person in the list has not played the game and is selected by the social networking system based on closeness to the user in personal connection;
- receive a selection of one or more people in the list from the user;
- and
- send an invitation to the one or more people to enable the user to play the game over the network with the one or more people.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.