Identifying particular parties

• US 8,886,737 B1
• Filed: 09/06/2012
• Issued: 11/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Thakur, Kumar Mayur, Zhang, Sheng, Hylton, Jeremy
• Primary Examiner(s): SALL, EL HADJI MALICK
• Application Number:
  US13/605,929
• Time in Patent Office: 796 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200, 709/206, 709/207, 709/227, 709/224, 707/771
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A method includes, receiving social network information of a user. The received social network information represents social graph data of the user and social network interactions of the user. The method also includes determining one or more subjects from content of the social graph data of the user and the interactions of the user. The method also includes identifying an initial collection of one or more individuals prominent in the one or more subjects from one or more measures of potential prominence provided by social network information of the individuals. The method also includes enhancing the initial collection of one or more prominent individuals to include additional prominent individuals. The method also includes providing a list of selectable entries to the user that includes each of the identified and additional prominent individuals.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving social network information of a user, wherein the received social network information represents social graph data of the user and social network interactions of the user;

determining one or more subjects from content of the social graph data of the user and the interactions of the user;

identifying an initial collection of one or more individuals prominent in the one or more subjects from one or more measures of potential prominence provided by social network information of the individuals;

enhancing the initial collection of one or more prominent individuals to include additional prominent individuals; and

providing a list of selectable entries to the user that includes each of the identified and additional prominent individuals.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein enhancing the initial collection includes expanding the initial collection to include additional prominent individuals identified from one or more subjects related to the one or more subjects determined from the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein enhancing the initial collection includes expanding the initial collection by measuring social network interactions of the prominent individuals with other individuals.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the initial collection of one or more individuals prominent in the one or more subjects includes assigning a score to each individual based on accumulated social network information of the individual and ranking the individuals based upon the respectively assigned score.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the measure of potential prominence represents an accumulation of social network postings of the respective individual.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the measure of potential prominence represents the number of instances that a social network posting of the respective individual has been accessed.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the measure of potential prominence represents the number of social network users that view social network postings of the respective individual.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more related subjects are determined from one or more terms that are commonly interchanged with one or more terms that represent the one or more subjects determined from the user.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein one or more weighting factors are applied to the one or more related subjects based on the relationship to the one or more subjects determined from the user.

10. The method of claim 3, wherein measuring the social network interactions includes measuring interactions of the prominent individuals and other prominent individuals included in the initial collection.

11. The method of claim 3, wherein measuring the social network interactions includes measuring the appearances of the prominent individuals in social graph data of other potentially prominent individuals.

12. The method of claim 3, wherein enhancing the initial collection includes adjusting scores assigned to the prominent individuals and adjusting the order of the prominent individuals in the initial collection from the adjusted scores.

13. An electronic system comprising:

memory to store instructions that are executable; and

one or more processing devices to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising;

receiving social network information of a user, wherein the received social network information represents social graph data of the user and social network interactions of the user;

determining one or more subjects from content of the social graph data of the user and the interactions of the user;

identifying an initial collection of one or more individuals prominent in the one or more subjects from one or more measures of potential prominence provided by social network information of the individuals;

enhancing the initial collection of one or more prominent individuals to include additional prominent individuals; and

providing a list of selectable entries to the user that includes each of the identified and additional prominent individuals.

14. The electronic system of claim 13, wherein enhancing the initial collection includes expanding the initial collection to include additional prominent individuals identified from one or more subjects related to the one or more subjects determined from the user.

15. The electronic system of claim 13, wherein enhancing the initial collection includes expanding the initial collection by measuring social network interactions of the prominent individuals with other individuals.

16. The electronic system of claim 13, identifying the initial collection of one or more individuals prominent in the one or more subjects includes assigning a score to each individual based on accumulated social network information of the individual and ranking the individuals based upon the respectively assigned score.

17. The electronic system of claim 13, the measure of potential prominence represents an accumulation of social network postings of the respective individual.

18. The electronic system of claim 13, the measure of potential prominence represents the number of instances that a social network posting of the respective individual has been accessed.

19. The electronic system of claim 13, the measure of potential prominence represents the number of social network users that view social network postings of the respective individual.

20. The electronic system of claim 14, wherein the one or more related subjects are determined from one or more terms that are commonly interchanged with one or more terms that represent the one or more subjects determined from the user.

21. The electronic system of claim 14, wherein one or more weighting factors are applied to the one or more related subjects based on the relationship to the one or more subjects determined from the user.

22. The electronic system of claim 15, measuring the social network interactions includes measuring interactions of the prominent individuals and other prominent individuals included in the initial collection.

23. The electronic system of claim 15, wherein measuring the social network interactions includes measuring the appearances of the prominent individuals in social graph data of other potentially prominent individuals.

24. The electronic system of claim 15, wherein enhancing the initial collection includes adjusting scores assigned to the prominent individuals and adjusting the order of the prominent individuals in the initial collection from the adjusted scores.

25. One or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media storing instructions that are executed to perform operations comprising:

receiving social network information of a user, wherein the received social network information represents social graph data of the user and social network interactions of the user;

determining one or more subjects from content of the social graph data of the user and the interactions of the user;

identifying an initial collection of one or more individuals prominent in the one or more subjects from one or more measures of potential prominence provided by social network information of the individuals;

enhancing the initial collection of one or more prominent individuals to include additional prominent individuals; and

providing a list of selectable entries to the user that includes each of the identified and additional prominent individuals.

26. The machine-readable storage media of claim 25, wherein enhancing the initial collection includes expanding the initial collection to include additional prominent individuals identified from one or more subjects related to the one or more subjects determined from the user.

27. The machine-readable storage media of claim 25, wherein enhancing the initial collection includes expanding the initial collection by measuring social network interactions of the prominent individuals with other individuals.

28. The machine-readable storage media of claim 25, identifying the initial collection of one or more individuals prominent in the one or more subjects includes assigning a score to each individual based on accumulated social network information of the individual and ranking the individuals based upon the respectively assigned score.

29. The machine-readable storage media of claim 25, wherein the measure of potential prominence represents an accumulation of social network postings of the respective individual.

30. The machine-readable storage media of claim 25, wherein the measure of potential prominence represents the number of instances that a social network posting of the respective individual has been accessed.

31. The machine-readable storage media of claim 25, wherein the measure of potential prominence represents the number of social network users that view social network postings of the respective individual.

32. The machine-readable storage media of claim 26, wherein the one or more related subjects are determined from one or more terms that are commonly interchanged with one or more terms that represent the one or more subjects determined from the user.

33. The machine-readable storage media of claim 26, wherein one or more weighting factors are applied to the one or more related subjects based on the relationship to the one or more subjects determined from the user.

34. The machine-readable storage media of claim 27, wherein measuring the social network interactions includes measuring interactions of the prominent individuals and other prominent individuals included in the initial collection.

35. The machine-readable storage media of claim 27, wherein measuring the social network interactions includes measuring the appearances of the prominent individuals in social graph data of other potentially prominent individuals.

36. The machine-readable storage media of claim 27, wherein enhancing the initial collection includes adjusting scores assigned to the prominent individuals and adjusting the order of the prominent individuals in the initial collection from the adjusted scores.