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AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsJason Duane Clark, Benjamin Kyle Padget, Christopher Jon Lang
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A first instance of a messenger application having a plug-in communicates with a second instance of the messenger application lacking the plug-in. The plug-in provides enhanced functionality to the first instance of the messenger application, while also providing corresponding functionality to the second instance, which lacks the plug-in. For example, the plug-in may provide rich, non-thread-native content to the first instance, while also providing corresponding thread-native content to the second instance. As another example, the plug-in may obtain data from the second instance and provide tailored advertisements to the second instance based upon that data. An another example, the plug-in may obtain location data from one or more of the instances and provide access to location-specific services that take the location data into account.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
A computer-implemented method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for a messenger plug-in, the instructions executable by a processor and comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.