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Methods and apparatus for targeting communications using social network metrics

  • US 9,807,047 B2
  • Filed: 08/12/2016
  • Issued: 10/31/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for automated prioritization of electronic communications transmitted over a network, the method comprising:

  • receiving, on a server using an interface communicatively coupled to the network, an electronic communication directed to a first user of a social network from a second user of the social network, the social network including affinity groups configured within the social network;

    determining, using one or more processors within the server, a user network of the first user within the social network, the user network of the first user including users and affinity groups that are within a predetermined social distance from the first user;

    determining if the second user is within the user network of the first user; and

    prioritizing presentation of the electronic communication, relative to a plurality of other electronic communications for the first user, based at least in part on the determining if the second user is within the user network of the first user.

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