Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080059576
Recommending contacts in a social network
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#191The Circle of Friends (Llantrisant Online)
Applies to Claims 10,19,6,7
Submitted by: Jonathan BishopLast updated: about 5 years ago
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Summary / Description
Summary / DescriptionThe Circle of Friends (1999) as implemented on Llantrisant Online (2001) allows users to add friends manually and recommends 'friends' from genealogical data, increasing their reputation when they add them.
 
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Type of Prior ArtPrint Publication
 
Publication Title *Development and Evaluation of a Virtual Community
 
AuthorJonathan Bishop
 
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MediumOther printed publication
 
Publication Date *June 19, 2002
 
URLhttp://www.jonathanbishop.com/P...
 
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Dean Powell was concerned with the possibility of inflammatory material being posted on the site, and who would have the responsibility for such information being posted. He raised concerns of the ‘Circle of Friends’ feature as it allows a user to leave bad comments about another user, which would be displayed on their profile.
 
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The system of Claim 1 wherein the recommendation criterion is that a user is not in the contact list of the target user.
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The system only displays potential users who have a genealogical path that are not already in their Circle of Friends.
The system only displays potential users who have a genealogical path that are not already in their Circle of Friends.
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The system of Claim 1 wherein the recommendation criterion is that there are multiple contact paths between the target user and the user.
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The system uses genealogical data linked with user data to recommend users to be friends with them.
The system uses genealogical data linked with user data to recommend users to be friends with them.
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A system for identifying a social path between a first user and a second user, the social path being within a maximum social path length, comprising:a data store containing contact lists of users, including a contact list for the first user and a contact list for the second user;a component that identifies, from the contact lists, contact paths from the first user to other users that are within a first maximum contact path length and contact paths from the second user to other users that are within a second maximum contact path length, wherein the sum of the first maximum contact path length and the second maximum contact path length equals the maximum social path length; anda component that, when there is a contact path from the first user to another user and a contact path from the second user to that same other user, indicates that a social path exists from the first user to the second user.
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The Circle of Friends uses a database of users then in a separate table places the user id of the requesting user with the user id of the target user along with details on acceptance of friendship and other status data.
The Circle of Friends uses a database of users then in a separate table places the user id of the requesting user with the user id of the target user along with details on acceptance of friendship and other status data.
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The computer-readable medium of Claim 16 wherein the recommendation criterion is that a user is not in the contact list of the target user and that there are multiple contact paths between the target user and the user.
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The recommendations of the system was made available through a Web-based interface
The recommendations of the system was made available through a Web-based interface
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