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Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 30, 2019
Applicant:

Salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Noah William Burbank, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Gabriel Starr Krupa, Petaluma, CA (US);

Bradford William Powley, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Alexis Roos, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

salesforce.com, inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 40/205 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/046 (2013.01); G06F 40/205 (2020.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A database server may identify mentioned names in a body of a message and extract the names using name identification heuristics and algorithms. The service retrieves or utilizes a distributed connection graph to identify contacts associated with the parties to the conversation that may match or be similar to the mentioned name. Contacts may be scored based on similarities between the extracted name the names associated with nodes of the graph, as well as other factors. The highest scoring contact may be surfaced or displayed to one or more of the parties to the communication message.


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