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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2015
Applicant:

Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Hui Zang, Cupertino, CA (US);

Yi Wang, Belmont, CA (US);

Phyllis Reuther;

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0255 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0631 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system, and medium are provided for using social information to determine influencers amongst a group of subscribers subscribing to services offered by a wireless-service carrier. A group of subscribers is identified, and a level of social-connectedness for each subscriber is determined based on cliques shared by pairs of subscribers and common friends shared by pairs of subscribers. An overall influence score is generated for each subscriber based on the level of social-connectedness. A set of subscribers is identified as having high influence scores; the set of subscribers comprises influencers. Incentives are provided to the set of subscribers.


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