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Leveraging communications to identify social network friends

  • US 8,010,602 B2
  • Filed: 08/28/2008
  • Issued: 08/30/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for enabling an electronic social relationship between a social network member and a second party who is not a social network friend of the social network member, comprising:

  • monitoring a plurality of types of electronic communications of the social network member and detecting communication traffic using one of the types of electronic communication between the social network member and the second party;

    automatically determining whether the communication traffic merits recommendation of the second party to the member as a social network friend, the recommendation based on one or more characteristics of the communication traffic between the parties; and

    if the communication traffic merits recommending the second party to the social network member, then providing a message to the social network member recommending the second party as social network friend.

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