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
View Prior Art for Claim 00019
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.
Title Discover People You May Know
Description
The system for recommending names on Facebook can be considered prior art under some circumstances. This is the same as described above with one difference: Facebook uses a k of 2 (everyone that is 2 degrees from the user, or one degree from the user's friends). In this patent application the value of k can vary to different maximum degrees of separation. Since k is a tweakable parameter, I would say that Facebook's present system IS prior art. (You can view this when selecting find friends and looking at the list under “Discover people you may already know”.
Title Development and Evaluation of a Virtual Community
ISBN
Description
The 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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