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Ranking objects by social relevance

  • US 8,977,611 B2
  • Filed: 10/18/2011
  • Issued: 03/10/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • by a computer server, accessing, in a social graph associated with one or more computing systems of a social network environment, a user node representing a particular user, the user node connected to a plurality of attribute nodes; and

    by the computer server, for each of a plurality of object nodes in the social graph, each object node connected to a plurality of attribute nodes, calculating a match coefficient between the user node and an individual object node, wherein the calculating comprises;

    calculating, for each attribute node in a set of all attribute nodes connected to both the user node and the object node, a first coefficient between the user node and the attribute node and a second coefficient between the object node and the attribute node; and

    obtaining the sum-product of all the first and second coefficients.

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