Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080059576
Filing Date: August 31, 2006
Inventors: Dafan Liu, Hua Chen, Wei-Ying Ma
Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/204000, 707, 707/100000
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A computer-readable medium containing instructions for controlling a computing system to identify potential contacts for a target user, by a method comprising:
identifying from a contact list of the target user contact paths from the target user to other users that are within a maximum contact path length;
ranking users on the identified contact paths;
filtering out users on the identified contact paths who do not satisfy a recommendation criterion; and
storing an indication of the ranking of the non-filtered-out users as an identification of potential contacts.
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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Title Social Information Filtering: Algorithms for Automating "Word of Mouth’’
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This paper describes a technique for making personalized recommendations from any type of database
to a user based on similarities between the interest profile of that user and those of other users.
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