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Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2017
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Randall Arrowood, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jesse Jyh-Cherng Hsia, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Rachel Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);

Chong Ho Lee, Cupertino, CA (US);

Gaganpreet Singh Shah, Union City, CA (US);

Sammy Shreibati, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Vivian Mak Urata, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure discussed herein may be used to receive, analyze, and distribute queries about various topics from a member of an online social network to other members of the social network. The embodiments of the present disclosure may additionally assess the quality of responses to queries by members, as well as expand or narrow the distribution of the query among the social network based on various events and criteria.


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