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A system for recommending potential contacts for a target user, comprising:a data store containing contact lists of users, including a contact list for the target user;

a component that identifies, from the contact lists, contact paths from the target user to other users that are within a maximum contact path length;

a component that ranks users on the identified contact paths based on path lengths of the contact paths;

a component that filters out users on the identified contact paths who do not satisfy a recommendation criterion; and

a component that presents to the target user an indication of the ranking of the non-filtered-out users as recommendations for potential contacts.

#182Political Artifacts and Personal Privacy: The Yenta Multi-Agent Distributed Matchmaking System

Applies to Claims 1,10,16

Submitted by: Thad StarnerLast updated: about 5 years ago

Title Personal Privacy: The Yenta Multi-Agent Distributed Matchmaking System

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Lenny Foner's PhD thesis on Yenta describes a privacy-aware matchmaking system based on the contents of a user's profile. The thesis caps much of the work, some published some not, of Pattie Maes's group at the MIT Media Lab during the mid-1990s. I would argue that this group's work pre-dates and was a superset of much of the social network tools now popular. Foner's thesis provides pointers to much of this

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