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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jenelle Bray, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for processing address book upload requests are provided. A user of a social network service uploads a list of email addresses. The social network service is configured to provide information about members of the social network service whose email addresses match one of the email addresses in the list of email addresses. Before providing that information, the social network service identifies attributes of the list of email addresses, the user, and/or the upload. The social network service analyzes the attributes to determine whether to provide the requested information. In one technique, the social network service creates and trains a model to learn the attributes or features (and their corresponding weights) that are associated with 'bad' uploads. Example features include the number of email addresses in an upload and the number of uploads submitted by the user within the last hour.