公开(公告)号：US10019766B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-10

申请号：US13835269

申请日：2013-03-15

Applicant: Facebook, Inc.

Inventor： Neville Bowers ,  Ramkumar Vaidyantathan ,  Soham Mazumdar ,  Patrick Linarducci ,  Lee Linden ,  Ted Zagat

IPC: G06Q30/00 ,  G06Q50/00 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q20/34 ,  B42D25/20 ,  G06Q30/02

CPC classification number: G06Q50/01 ,  B42D25/285 ,  G06Q20/342 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0635

Abstract: One variation of the first method includes: receiving a first gift order from a first sender through a social networking system, the first gift order specifying a recipient, a first merchant, and a first monetary value redeemable through the first merchant; issuing a tangible gift card to the recipient, the gift card linked to a gift account, of the recipient, within the social networking system; receiving a second gift order from a second sender through the social networking system, the second gift order specifying the recipient, a second merchant, and a second monetary value redeemable through the second merchant; linking the first and second monetary values to the gift account; and, in response to a first purchase from the first merchant with the gift card, publishing a detail of the first purchase to a feed within the social networking system in accordance with a privacy setting of the recipient.