SOCIAL NETWORK FOR RECIPROCAL DATA SHARING
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards seeding a user'"'"'s contacts for their online social network. The invention is arranged to automatically recommend to the user a set of seed contacts that the user may employ to invite to join their social network. The set of seed contacts may be harvested from the user'"'"'s existing portal activities, as well as other sources. In one embodiment, the invention analyzes portal activity, such as email exchanges with the user, and the like, to determine a frequency of contact with the user. Other sources may include but not be limited to emails, names within an address book of the user, names within an address book of another person, a buddy list, an instant messaging list, an activity, a mailing list, an online discussion group, a membership in a category, chat group, and the like.
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40 Claims
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21. A method comprising:
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identifying, via a server, data fields associated with a user profile of a user on a social network, each data field representing a different entry related to the user; establishing, over a network, a communication with a third party service; identifying, via the server, information from the third party service that corresponds to information contained within a data field of the user profile; and incorporating, via the server, content related to the information from the third party service into the data field of the user profile. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A system comprising:
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a database comprising stored user data; a social network server in communication with the user data in the database, the social network server programmed to perform a plurality of operations, comprising; identifying data fields associated with a user profile of a user on a social network, each data field representing a different entry related to the user; establishing a communication with a third party service; identifying information from the third party service that corresponds to information contained within a data field of the user profile; and incorporating content related to the information from the third party service into the data field of the user profile. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40)
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