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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:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 23, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Paul R. Bastide, Boxford, MA (US);

Matthew E. Broomhall, Goffstown, NH (US);

Robert E. Loredo, North Miami Beach, FL (US);

Dale M. Schultz, Limerick, ME (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/306 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Populating a user network for a focus user includes identifying a base network in a social network, the base network includes a group of users that are potential social connections for a focus user, receiving a policy associated with the focus user, the policy includes information for populating, from the base network, a user network associated with the focus user, determining, based on the policy, a number of proposed social connections from the base network to populate the user network, and populating the user network of the focus user with the number of proposed social connections.


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