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Filtering recorded interactions by age

  • US 8,868,739 B2
  • Filed: 09/24/2013
  • Issued: 10/21/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • recording logical relationship information, the logical relationship information describing logical relationships between a first user and other users, the logical relationship information associated with a social networking service;

    monitoring communications between the first user and the other users, the communications being of at least two different types of communications;

    determining, at a server using at least one processor, a first user group in which to add the first user based on the logical relationship information, a first factor and a second factor, the first factor corresponding to a first of the different types of communications and the second factor corresponding to a second of the different types of communications, the determining including applying a first time-varying function to the first factor and a second time-varying function to the second factor to represent an effect of passage of time, the first time-varying function being different than the second time-varying function; and

    adding the first user to the first user group.

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