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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2007
Shaun Cooley, El Segundo, CA (US);
Keith Newstadt, Newton, MA (US);
Laura Garcia-manrique, Marina del Rey, CA (US);
Sourabh Satish, Fremont, CA (US);
Brian Hernacki, San Carlos, CA (US);
Timothy G. Brown, Fort Edward, NY (US);
Shaun Cooley, El Segundo, CA (US);
Keith Newstadt, Newton, MA (US);
Laura Garcia-Manrique, Marina del Rey, CA (US);
Sourabh Satish, Fremont, CA (US);
Brian Hernacki, San Carlos, CA (US);
Timothy G. Brown, Fort Edward, NY (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing information associated with service providers using a social network is described. In one embodiment, a method of providing indicia of familiarity with the service providers comprises identifying one or more relationships between one or more service providers and a user using a social network associated with the user and generating information regarding the one or more relationships, wherein the information comprises a social distance between the user and each service provider of the one or more service providers where the social distance represents an indicia of familiarity between the user and each service provider of the one or more service providers.