SJ Brown - US Patent 8,156,064, 2012 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Many Internet-based or web-based social networks are powerful tools to connect people separated by potentially vast distances. Social networks currently allow …
D Zhou, P Moreels - US Patent 8,856,235, 2014 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND This invention relates to social networking, and in particu lar to inferring user pro? le information in a social networking system from social information about a user …
D Zhou, P Moreels - US Patent 9,251,468, 2016 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND This invention relates to social networking, and in particu lar to inferring user profile information in a social networking system from Social information about a user …
XM Zhu, C Lunt - US Patent 8,775,324, 2014 - Google Patents
Several online dating and friend-making sites currently operate on the Internet. These services are generally similarin function. They allow users to post profiles and photos, as …
J Lakshya - US Patent 9,477,723, 2016 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Social networks facilitate the making of connections by users with friends, family, classmates, customers, clients, and/or content of interest. A criterion commonly used …
SJ Brown - US Patent 9,043,257, 2015 - Google Patents
Observation-based user profiling and profile matching are provided. The network behavior of users of a computer implemented social network are observed and used for user profiling …
R B'far, K Spaulding, Y Cengiz, A Caves, F Goh… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
User profiles can be analyzed to identify profiles matching to the same identity. For example, profiles from different Social network systems are analyzed to determine if the profiles are …
S Lessin, J Wiseman - US Patent 8,938,411, 2015 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND This invention relates to social networking, and in particu lar to inferring a social networking system user's family relationships from social information about the user …
E Bilange - US Patent App. 13/773,929, 2014 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND 0002 Many techniques are employed to accurately iden tify a profile of the day-to-day activities of people, particu larly consumers. Some systems rely upon how people …