Google Inc.

Neilfred Picciotto

Todd Christopher Jackson

Keith Jonathan Coleman

Edward Shichung Ho

Braden F Kowitz

Ari J Leichtberg

Michael H Leggett

Joseph Rozier

John A Costigan, Iii

Brian Stoler

Roderick Adonis Chavez

Sean Edward Purcell

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for assisting participation in a social network. In one aspect, a method is performed by a system of one or more data processing devices. The method includes receiving, at the system, a historical record of message exchange between an individual and members in a member network, the system determining, for each of the members, whether the individual is likely to want to be related to the respective member, each determination considering the number and transactional characteristics of the message exchange between the individual and the respective member in the historical record, and the system outputting the determinations that the individual is likely to want to be related to at least two of the respective members.

Assisting participation in a social network

A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to create a first identifier associated with a first user and including profile information of the first user; determine a second identifier associated with the first user and with an application, the second identifier including a subset of the profile information of the first user; receive an interaction request from a second user, the interaction request including a third identifier associated with the first user; associate the third identifier with the first identifier associated with the first user and the application; enable the interaction between the first user and the second user on the application; and provide for display to the second user information associated with the first user based on the second identifier.

Enabling communication while limiting access to user information

Growing community of inventors

Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Neilfred Picciotto