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APPARATUS AND COMPUTER CODE FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL-NETWORK DEPENDENT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICES

  • US 20080103907A1
  • Filed: 10/25/2007
  • Published: 05/01/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. ) A method of providing information retrieval services, the method comprising:

  • a) for a plurality of users, analyzing content of multi-party electronic communications between individual users of said plurality of users, said analyzed electronic communications including at least one of text chat communications and voice-content-including media communications;

    b) for a given user of said plurality of users, determining S201, a social network comprising a plurality of distinct indirect contacts;

    c) for each indirect contact of said plurality of indirect contacts of said social network, determining a respective indirect contact social network closeness function S201 between said given user and said each indirect contact from at least one of;

    i) at least one word feature of said analyzed content of said electronic communications;

    ii) at least one audio feature of said analyzed content of said electronic communications, andiii) at least one video feature of said analyzed content of said electronic communications;

    d) effecting S209 at least one information retrieval operation selected from the group consisting of;

    i) handling a search query; and

    ii) providing advertising,in accordance with said determined indirect contact social network closeness functions.

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