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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Adam Leon, San Francisco, CA (US);

David Golland, Oakland, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06F 16/953 (2019.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01); H04L 51/52 (2022.01); H04L 67/01 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G06F 16/953 (2019.01); H04L 51/52 (2022.05); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/01 (2022.05);
Abstract

A method and system for providing recipient recommendations to a user wishing to share content with a contact is provided. A message having the content along with a first contact is received from the user. Profiles from an entire social graph associated with the user and the first contact are searched to determine a shared attributed among both profiles. The shared attribute is used to search for a second contact to receive the content by searching for the shared attribute in a profile associated with the second contact. When a determination is made that the profile associated with the second contact has the shared attribute, the second contact is suggested as a recipient of the content.


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