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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:
Jul. 02, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 24, 2015
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Shashank Ashok Bapat, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 12/02 (2009.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); H04L 63/0421 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.02); H04W 12/02 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for identifying people in common (PIC) between two users on a social networking service includes: receiving a request for a set of people in common between a first user and a second user on a social networking service, determining publicly visible connections of the first user and the second user from the social networking service; determining connections visible only to members of an accessible group of the first user and the second user from the social networking service, access to the connections visible only to members of the accessible group being controlled by security permissions; determining a set of people in common between the first user and the second user using the publicly visible connections, the connections and using security permissions from a perspective of the first user; and providing the set of people in common to the first user.


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