SOCIAL NETWORK SITE INCLUDING CONTACT-BASED RECOMMENDATION FUNCTIONALITY

Patent №

US 7,945,862

Granted

2011-05-17

Filed 2007

Owner

YAHOO! INC.

Lab

AI components

3

kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11853768

Particular embodiments of the present invention are related to a social network site with enhanced user interaction functionality. In particular implementations, a method includes accessing a list of contacts that are connected to an owner of a personal page of a social network; identifying one or more contact pairs from the list, wherein the contacts in each contact pair are not connected to each other; computing an affinity score for each identified contact pair; randomly selecting one or more of the contact pairs based on corresponding affinity scores; providing a friend connector user interface module to the owner of the personal page, wherein the friend connector user interface prompts the owner to invite the contacts of the selected contact pair to establish a connection association relative to the social network; and conditionally transmitting an invitation to the contacts of the contact pair based on one or more actions of the owner relative to the friend connector interface.

Knowledge representationPlanningEvolutionary computationG06Q 10/10G06F 16/958G06F 16/986G06F 21/6218G06F 40/103G06F 40/197G06Q 10/40H04L 51/043+1 more

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Evolutionary computation0.60
AI hardware0.05
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

YAHOO! INC.

assignment · 198120080

Assignors

ALDRICH, WILLIAM CLEMENT, CHIJIIWA, RYO, TRUONG, VU HAO THI, SPEISER, MICHAEL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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