Social network onboarding

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021105242-A1
Application number	US-201916591390-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 2, 2019
Priority date	Oct 2, 2019
Publication date	Apr 8, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

Techniques are described that determine a user to participate in software testing of a social network application and/or service and to enable the user to propagate an invitation to contacts of the user to participate in the software testing of the social network application. In some examples, the user may be provided a message via an inbox of a first service including the invitation and a selectable option to install an application associated with a second service. In some, examples, the user may be sent a list of contacts from which the user may select other users to also participate in the software testing of the social network application. In some examples, responsive to the user's selection, a message may be sent to an inbox of the selected contacts that contains an invitation to participate in the beta version of the social network application.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computing system comprising:
one or more processors; and memory storing one or more computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
sending a first message to a first account associated with a first service, the first message including a first invitation to access a second service and the first account being associated with a first device;
receiving a request from the first account to install an application associated with the second service;
receiving an indication that the application is installed on the first device;
determining that the first account has a token that enables access to the second service;
determining a second account to recommend that the first account send a second invitation to join the second service;
sending an instruction to the first device associated with the first account to present identification information associated with the second account;
receiving a selection of the second account to send the second invitation to join the second service;
sending, in response to receiving the selection of the second account, a second message to the second account, the second message including the second invitation to access the second service and the second account being associated with a second device.

2 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the second invitation to join the second service is sent to a direct message inbox of the second account associated with the first service.

3 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the second invitation is selectable to install the second service on the second device.

4 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein sending the second invitation causes the second account to have a second token that authorizes the second account access to the second service.

5 . The computing system of claim 1 , further comprising in response to determining that the second account had access to the second service prior to sending the second message, sending an instruction to the first device to present an indication that the second account has access to the second service.

6 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the token is stored at the computing system and is associated with the first account or the token is stored at the first device associated with the first account.

7 . The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the second account is one of multiple accounts, the operations further comprising:
ranking the multiple accounts based at least in part on previous interaction of the first account with the multiple accounts; and sending an instruction to the first device to display the multiple accounts according to the ranking

8 . The computing system of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a selection of at least the second account in which a user associated with the first account intends to communicate with via the second service and wherein determining the second account to recommend that the first account send an invitation to join the second service is based on receiving the selection.

9 . A method performed by a computing system, the method comprising:
sending a first message to a first account associated with a first service, the first message including a first invitation to access a second service; receiving a request from the first account to install an application associated with the second service; receiving an indication that the application is installed; determining that the first account has a token that enables access to the second service; receiving a selection of a second account to send a second invitation to join the second service; sending, in response to receiving the selection of the second account, a second message to the second account, the second message including the second invitation to access the second service.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the second invitation to join the second service is sent to a direct message inbox of the second account associated with the first service and the second invitation is selectable to install the second service on a device associated with the second account.

11 . The method of claim 9 , further comprising determining to send the first message to the first account based at least in part on at least one of direct messaging behavior of the first account, visual message usage of the first account, an account status of the first account, a likelihood that the first account will access the second service after a threshold period of time, or at least one a previous interaction with a previous invitation.

12 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the second invitation causes the second account to have a second token that enables access to the second service.

13 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
determining a first number of accounts to recommend to a first user associated with the first account to send an invitation to join the second service; and determining a second number of accounts to recommend to a second user associated with the second account to send an invitation to join the second service, the second number of accounts being less than the first number of accounts.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the second number of accounts is zero.

15 . One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions configured for execution by one or more processors of a computing system to perform actions comprising:
sending a first message to a first account associated with a first service, the first message including a first invitation to access a second service; receiving a request from the first account to install an application associated with the second service; receiving an indication that the application is installed; determining that the first account has a token that enables access to the second service; receiving a selection of a second account to send a second invitation to join the second service; sending, in response to receiving the selection of the second account, a second message to the second account, the second message including the second invitation to access the second service.

16 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein the token is stored at the computing system and is associated with the first account or the token is stored at a device associated with the first account.

17 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein the second invitation is selectable to install the second service on a device associated with the second account.

18 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein token comprises a first token and sending the second invitation causes the second account to have a second token that authorizes the second account access to the second service.

19 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 18 wherein:
the first token indicates that the first account may access the second service and may invite one or more other accounts to join the second service; and
the second token indicates that the second account may access the second service and may not invite one or more other accounts to join the second service.

20 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15 , wherein the second account is one of multiple accounts, the actions further comprising:
ranking the multiple accounts based at least in part on previous interaction of the first account with

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Babayeva Anna
• Duffy Molly
• Johnson Elizabeth

Classifications

• H04L67/55

  Push-based network services · CPC title

• H04L51/52

  for supporting social networking services · CPC title

• H04L12/2825 Primary

  Reporting to a device located outside the home and the home network (access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with telemetering systems H04M11/002) · CPC title

• H04L12/2818

  from a device located outside both the home and the home network (access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless eletrical link G08C17/00; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with remote control systems H04M11/007) · CPC title

• H04L67/303

  Terminal profiles · CPC title