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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Sammy Shreibati, Los Altos, CA (US);
Vivian Mak Urata, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark Hull, San Jose, CA (US);
Haiyang Liu, Redwood City, CA (US);
Birjodh Tiwana, Lafayette, CA (US);
Siva Visakan Sooriyan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jesse Jyh-Cherng Hsia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael Joshua Aft, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kinjal Basu, Stanford, CA (US);
Shaunak Chatterjee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described herein is a contextual contact recommendation or suggestion service and system. The service, which, in some embodiments, is integrated with a social networking service and/or an instant messaging service, takes as input a first parameter that identifies a member of the social networking service, and a second parameter that defines a context (e.g., a web page that is being viewed by the member. The service, based in part on the context, computes a ranked list of members to populate a contextual contact list, thereby recommending or suggesting contacts, with whom the member might be interested in initiating, or continuing, a conversation, based on the context of the member's current web browsing session. Optionally, the service may take as input a third parameter, defining a use case, such that the recommendation algorithm can be customized by use case.