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RECOMMENDING CONTACTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK

  • US 20080059576A1
  • Filed: 08/31/2006
  • Published: 03/06/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for recommending potential contacts for a target user, comprising:

  • a data store containing contact lists of users, including a contact list for the target user;

    a component that identifies, from the contact lists, contact paths from the target user to other users that are within a maximum contact path length;

    a component that ranks users on the identified contact paths based on path lengths of the contact paths;

    a component that filters out users on the identified contact paths who do not satisfy a recommendation criterion; and

    a component that presents to the target user an indication of the ranking of the non-filtered-out users as recommendations for potential contacts.

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