Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ranking of address book contacts based on social proximity
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Application No.: US15189837Application Date: 2016-06-22
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Publication No.: US10198482B2Publication Date: 2019-02-05
- Inventor: Erick Tseng
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30 ; G06Q30/02 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L29/12

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to look up an address book maintained by the social networking system. The social networking system improves the look up search results by ranking one or more contacts in the address book based on social graph, social relationship and communication history information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160299900A1 RANKING OF ADDRESS BOOK CONTACTS BASED ON SOCIAL PROXIMITY Public/Granted day:2016-10-13
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