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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The system of Claim 1 wherein the component that identifies contact paths traverses a social network formed by the contact lists starting at the contact list of the target user, wherein the component that ranks users generates a recommendation score for a user by aggregating a path score for each contact path from the target user to the user, 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, and wherein the maximum contact path length is three.