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Determining logical groups without using personal information

  • US 9,691,108 B2
  • Filed: 06/29/2015
  • Issued: 06/27/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • accessing logical relationship information describing multiple different one-to-one logical relationships among a plurality of user devices, each one-to-one logical relationship between two devices having been formed via an explicit action requesting formation of the one-to-one logical relationship by users of both of the two devices;

    generating scores for each of a plurality of possible groups based at least partially on the logical relationship information and information about a first user device, but the scores not being based on any personally identifiable information about the first user of the first user device;

    selecting a first group from the plurality of possible groups based on the scores; and

    adding the first user device to the first group.

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