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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:
Apr. 30, 2013

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2009
Applicants:

Gideon Wald, San Francisco, CA (US);

Wenjie Fu, Mountain View, CA (US);

Yanxin Shi, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Hong Yan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gideon Wald, San Francisco, CA (US);

Wenjie Fu, Mountain View, CA (US);

Yanxin Shi, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Hong Yan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods, apparatuses and systems for generating a nickname dictionary that includes associations between names of users and candidate nicknames based on statistical analysis of user communications observed at a network communications facility, such as a social network system, an email provider and the like.


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