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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Kenneth A. Lobb, Sammamish, WA (US);
Shiraz J. Cupala, Seattle, WA (US);
Omar Aftab, Kirkland, WA (US);
Christopher Michael Novak, Redmond, WA (US);
Todd Garnet Wagner, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for facilitating social interactions between different individuals. Information available about each of the individuals engaged in a social interaction is used to provide a 'social accelerator' for an interaction between the individuals. Social interactions are improved or accelerated by aggregating available information about individuals participating in an information system. When an interaction event trigger is received, the context of context for possible social interaction between the users around the trigger event is determined. A social accelerator is selected from available interest information common to the participating user and the target user, and the social accelerator is provided to one of the individuals.