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Context-dependent inferred social network

  • US 10,679,190 B1
  • Filed: 02/11/2016
  • Issued: 06/09/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • determining a context associated with a first user-profile;

    determining one or more user-attributes that correspond to the determined context;

    evaluating each of the one or more determined user-attributes for the first user-profile and separately for each of a plurality of candidate user profiles;

    determining a context-specific user-network for the first user-profile, wherein the context-specific user-network comprises one or more user-profiles selected from the plurality of candidate user profiles to be surrogate user-profiles for the first user-profile in the determined context, wherein each surrogate user-profile is selected based on similarity between at least one evaluated user-attribute for the first user-profile and at least one corresponding evaluated user-attribute for the surrogate user profile;

    using historical context-to-action data for one or more of the surrogate user-profiles as a basis for determining a context-based action that is appropriate in the determined context, wherein the historical context-to-action data that is more recent is given greater weight; and

    causing a computing device associated with the first user-profile to initiate the context-based action.

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