Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080059576
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Michael Sawchyn (14 days ago)
This idea is already being partially implemented on several applications. As mentioned, Facebook, Myspace, Vizster, and Google have all very similar ideas that would be affected by the patent if it is granted. The patent itself covers such a wide range of ideas and it is vague in implementation, therefore seeming to want to patent something that is already out there. Also, the weaknesses in the patent are strong enough that there would need to be revisions and clarifications before we recommend that this idea receive a patent. If it was made more specific and given limitations, and also if details were provided as to how it would be implemented and sustained, the idea would deserve another review.Rebecca Richards (14 days ago)
With the growing popularity of social networks for both personal and professional use it is important to be able to sort and categorize contacts to determine viability of potential contacts. The claims made appear different enough from the substance to exsisting products by Vizster and internal to facebook. The substantive difference mainly focus on how the potential contacts are gathered. By adapting where information is selected from as well as being able to individually set the degree of seperation used to draw contact information this application indicates a new level of automation and awareness creating a new dynamic in recommending contacts for expanding a social network.David Kumhyr (27 days ago)
Regarding Claim 00001 This seems quite like the "vizster" social networking demonstration of the Prefuse visualization toolkit by Jeffrey Heer. Located here: http://jheer.org/vizster/
It has a data store (a sql database) containing contact lists of users, a component that identifies from the data store contact paths and lengths of path, methods of ranking and filtering contacts (nodes) from the list. The one piece lacking is presenting a near node as a contact, though that would be obvious when looking at the connection visualization presented.PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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