Invention Publication
- Patent Title: DETERMINING STRENGTH OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN USER CONTACTS
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Application No.: US18409267Application Date: 2024-01-10
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Publication No.: US20240146671A1Publication Date: 2024-05-02
- Inventor: Andrew Tomkins , Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar , Shalini Agarwal , Mylinh Yang , Bo Pang , Mark Yinan Li
- Applicant: GOOGLE LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Main IPC: H04L51/04
- IPC: H04L51/04 ; G06F16/28 ; H04L51/00 ; H04L51/02 ; H04L51/216 ; H04L51/52 ; H04L67/306

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus related to identifying one or more messages sent by a user-identifying two or more contacts that are associated with one or more of the messages, determining a strength of relationship score between identified contacts, and utilizing the strength of relationship scores to provide additional information related to the contacts. A strength of relationship score between a contact and one or more other contacts may be determined based on one or more properties of one or more of the messages. In some implementations, contacts groups maybe determined based on the strength of relationship scores. In some implementations, contacts groups may be utilized to disambiguate references to contacts in messages. In some implementations, contacts group may be utilized to provide suggestions to the user of additional contacts of a contacts group that includes the indicated recipient contact of a message.
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