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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
May. 22, 2006
Gregory Thomas Mattox, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Puneet Narula, Redmond, WA (US);
Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, Seattle, WA (US);
Bryant Fong, Kirkland, WA (US);
Gregory Thomas Mattox, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Puneet Narula, Redmond, WA (US);
Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, Seattle, WA (US);
Bryant Fong, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Search results are displayed according to relevance and grouped by the social distance between the person associated with the profile and the user performing the search. Metadata is defined of each of the profiles indicating groups affiliated the profile and a relevance value is determined as a function of the metadata for each of the profiles in the result set. The social distance is determined as a function of a colleague designation associated with the profile.