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Sending Notifications About Other Users with whom a User is Likely to Interact

  • US 20140351342A1
  • Filed: 08/12/2014
  • Published: 11/27/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • maintaining information for a plurality of users of a social networking system, the plurality of users comprising a recipient user and a target user;

    predicting an interaction between the recipient user and the target user based on a prediction that the recipient user and the target user are going to interact at a future time;

    responsive to predicting the interaction between the recipient user and the target user;

    retrieving from the maintained information a plurality of information items containing information about the target user;

    determining a relevance score for each of the retrieved information items, wherein a higher relevance score indicates that the information item will assist the recipient user in the interaction with the target user;

    ranking the information items according to their relevance scores;

    selecting one or more information items based on the ranking to provide to the recipient user regarding the target user; and

    sending the selected information items for display to the recipient user.

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