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Enabling identification of online identities between different messaging services

  • US 8,495,156 B2
  • Filed: 06/07/2010
  • Issued: 07/23/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • determining that a user of a first instant messaging service is associated with a second instant messaging service different from the first instant messaging service;

    identifying user identities for user other than the user, wherein the user identities are associated with the first instant messaging service and the user identities are stored in a first list associated with the user;

    determining if at least one of the user identities from the first list of user identities has a matching user identity associated with the second instant messaging service by identifying if a unique portion of the at least one of the user identities from the first list of user identities has at least one common feature with a unique portion of a user identity associated with the second instant messaging service;

    determining a degree of uniqueness of an identified user identity;

    adjusting the required amount of common features between the unique portion of the identified user identity and the unique portion of a matching user identity associated with the second instant messaging service based on the determined degree of uniqueness of the identified user identity; and

    modifying, by a hardware processor, a second list associated with the second instant messaging service to include the matching user identities.

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