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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2006
Christopher Lunt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan Abrams, Mountain View, CA (US);
Samuel Sanchez, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Christopher Lunt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan Abrams, Mountain View, CA (US);
Samuel Sanchez, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Friendster, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An online social network collects descriptive data about various individuals and allows those individuals to indicate other individuals with whom they have a personal relationship. The descriptive data and the relationship data are integrated and processed to reveal the series of social relationships connecting any two individuals within a social network. A maximum degree of separation setting is provided and set to at least two. The maximum degree of separation setting limits the amount of searching that is carried out when searching for a connection between two individuals in the social network.