Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Implicit contacts in an online social network
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Application No.: US15785237Application Date: 2017-10-16
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Publication No.: US10334064B2Publication Date: 2019-06-25
- Inventor: Samuel Wharton Lessin , Robert M. Baldwin , Jeffrey Huang , Timothy A. Stanke , Caitlin Rothrock Winner , Matthew Vincent Sain
- 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: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04L12/58 ; G06Q50/00 ; G06Q10/00 ; G06Q10/10

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user of an online social network, a request for a user-list including one or more second users of the online social network. The method includes calculating, for each of the second users, a contact-score between the first user and the second user based on social interactions and non-social interactions between the users. The social interactions are interactions on the online social network visible to the first user based on privacy settings associated with the second user and the respective social interaction. The non-social interactions are interactions on a third-party application accessed by the online social network, shared based on a privacy setting associated with the third-party application. The method includes generating the user-list with references to second users having a contact-score above a threshold contact-score. The method includes providing instructions for displaying the user-list.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180054494A1 Implicit Contacts in an Online Social Network Public/Granted day:2018-02-22
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