Meta Platforms, Inc.
Gameplay threads in messaging applications

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request, from a first client system of a first user, a request to play a game with a second user, the request being initiated from within a message thread in a first instance of a messaging application running on the first client system; sending, to a second client system of the second user, the request to play the game in the message thread in a second instance of the messaging application running on the second client system; receiving an indication the second user has accepted the request to play the game; and initiating a game session of the game between the first user and the second user in the message thread, the message thread being operable to allow the first user or the second user to perform one or more in-game actions in the game via the message thread.