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Ranking of Address Book Contacts Based on Social Proximity

  • US 20150019483A1
  • Filed: 10/01/2014
  • Published: 01/15/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • by one or more computing devices, accessing a contacts list comprising one or more contacts in an address book of a first user;

    by one or more computing devices, accessing a data store for existing social-graph information between each contact in the contacts list and the first user;

    by one or more computing devices, accessing communication-history information for each contact in the contacts list, the communication-history information for a contact indicating a frequency of communication between the first user and the contact;

    by one or more computing devices, determining a social-proximity score for each contact in the contacts list based at least in part on the social-graph information, communication-history information, and one or more user-declared relationship types between the first user and other contacts of the contacts list;

    by one or more computing devices, sending the social-proximity scores for the contacts in the contacts list to a client device associated with the first user, wherein a ranked list of the contacts displayed on the client device is determined based at least in part on the social-proximity scores.

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