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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2012
Jonathan H. Frank, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan H. Frank, Mountain View, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A social networking system identifies relationships between friends of a target user that are likely to be unexpected to the target user. To identify an unexpected relationship among a user's friends, the social networking system determines a measure of unexpectedness for pairs of connections of the target user and selects pairs of connections for presentation to the user based on the measure of unexpectedness. The measure of unexpectedness of a relationship between a pair of friends is inversely related to a number of connections between each of the pair of friends and the target user. Information describing the pair of unexpected friends may be presented to a target user along with content relating the two friends, such as photos in which both friends are tagged, events attended by the unexpected friends together, or places both unexpected friends checked-in at the same time.