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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2017
Applicant:
T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Inventors:
Aaron Drake, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jonathan Morrow, Issaquah, WA (US);
Assignee:
T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/14 (2009.01); H04M 3/22 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04M 3/51 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04M 3/2218 (2013.01); H04M 15/58 (2013.01); H04M 15/8044 (2013.01); H04W 4/14 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04M 3/5158 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some users of communications systems and social networks have more influence over other users due to having more contacts and communications with people through the systems and networks. The techniques described herein identify these more influential users. Data from such users is used to provide a scoring metric for each user, and user can be ranked according to the scoring metric. Communications can then be made to a subset of users based on the rankings.