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Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2012
Applicants:

Joseph Robert Smarr, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);

Alexander Fabrikant, East Palo Alto, CA (US);

Brett Rolston Lider, San Francisco, CA (US);

Zachary Yeskel, San Francisco, CA (US);

Balaji Srinivasan, Fremont, CA (US);

Bin Chang, Daly City, CA (US);

Andrew Ames Bunner, Belmont, CA (US);

Inventors:

Joseph Robert Smarr, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);

Alexander Fabrikant, East Palo Alto, CA (US);

Brett Rolston Lider, San Francisco, CA (US);

Zachary Yeskel, San Francisco, CA (US);

Balaji Srinivasan, Fremont, CA (US);

Bin Chang, Daly City, CA (US);

Andrew Ames Bunner, Belmont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/06 (2013.01); H04L 51/30 (2013.01); H04L 51/36 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one aspect, a method includes receiving an indication that a first user has interacted with a second user in a social network, calculating a social affinity score between the first user and the second user based on first user information, second user information, or relationship information between the first user and the second user and scheduling delivery of a notification to the recipient based on the social affinity score. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.


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