- Patent Title: Establishing connections between third party accounts maintained by various third party systems and between third party accounts and accounts maintained by an online system
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Application No.: US15179935Application Date: 2016-06-10
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Publication No.: US09935913B2Publication Date: 2018-04-03
- Inventor: Liang Xu , Zhonghua Qu , Aleksey Sergeyevich Fadeev , Artur Abdullin
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; H04L12/58 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L29/06
Abstract:
Online system users interact with one or more third party systems, with the online system maintaining an account for each of its users and each third party system maintaining a third party account for each of its users. The online system compares information in a user's account to accessible information in third party accounts and establishes connections between the user's account and third party accounts based on the comparisons, a connection including a confidence level indicating a likelihood of a third party account being associated with the user of the online system corresponding to the user's account. Similarly, the online system compares information in different third party accounts and establishes connections between different third party accounts based on the comparisons including includes a confidence level indicating a likelihood of a third party account and an additional third party account being associated with the same user.
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