Kunal N Modi, Age 47Rockville, MD

2018002, Jan 25, 2018

Jul 21, 2016

15/216372

- Menlo Park CA, US
Kunal Nikhil Modi - Fremont CA, US
Brian Kimball - San Francisco CA, US

H04L 12/58
H04L 29/08

Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for notifying existing users when a new user joins a messaging service (or returns from a period of inactivity). A top n number of existing users acquainted with the new user may be selected and may be encouraged to message the new user. The existing users may be selected using a messaging coefficient that indicates a likelihood that a message will result in a meaningful conversation, and a number of other factors that prevent the existing users from becoming inundated with notifications. The number n may be selected based on an amount of display space available to the new user in a messaging application. When inviting the existing users to contact the new user, a new thread may be automatically created and bumped to the top of the new user's thread list.

2017037, Dec 28, 2017

Jun 24, 2016

15/191874

- Menlo Park CA, US
Kunal Nikhil Modi - Fremont CA, US

Facebook, Inc. - Menlo Park CA

H04L 29/06
H04L 12/58

Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for the atomic switching of user accounts for a messaging client, in order to maintain constant network availability of the messaging client. The messaging client may allow the registering of multiple messaging accounts and switching between them. Switching may include validating a selecting account, logging out the currently-active account if validation is successful, and logging in the selected account. If validation or logging-in fails, the messaging client remains logged-in to, or returns to, the previously-active account. A limited token may be maintained for inactive accounts and may allow for the retrieval of information such as whether inactive accounts have unread messages, and if so how many, without allowing further access. The messaging client may therefore periodically poll the messaging system (or vice versa) and display notifications for inactive accounts, and the inactive accounts may still be listed as available via the messaging system.

2017029, Oct 12, 2017

Jun 20, 2016

15/187697

- Menlo Park CA, US
Kunal Nikhil Modi - Fremont CA, US
Jonathan David Perlow - San Francisco CA, US
Peter Henry Martinazzi - Huntington Beach CA, US
Ariel Benjamin Evnine - Oakland CA, US

Facebook, Inc. - Menlo Park CA

G06F 17/30
G06N 5/04
H04L 29/08
H04L 12/58
H04W 4/12

Techniques for device configuration using messaging history information are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a contact list component operative to determine a promotion contact list for the user account; a predicted interest component operative to determine a predicted communication interest for each contact on a promotion contact list; a predicted activity component operative to determine a user predicted likelihood of future activeness on the communication system; determine a contact predicted likelihood of future activeness on the communication system for each contact; and a contact ranking component operative to determine the ranking weight for each contact based on the predicted communication interest for each contact on the promotion contact list, the user predicted likelihood of future activeness on the communication system, and the contact predicted likelihood of future activeness on the communication system for each contact on the promotion contact list. Other embodiments are described and claimed.