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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2008
Thomas Jan Stovicek, Mountain View, CA (US);
Erez Kikin-gil, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas Jan Stovicek, Mountain View, CA (US);
Erez Kikin-Gil, Mountain View, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for automatically generating a friend subset from contacts of a user based on future events is provided. Future social events data from an online social network including events to be attended by the user are received. Contacts having identity information from a contact list of the user are identified. Future social events data associated with the identified contacts, including events to be attended by the contacts, are received. Whether the identified contacts are scheduled to attend the same future social events as the user is determined. A friend subset of the determined contacts having future social events corresponding to the future social events of the user is selected and displayed on a web page. The user selects one of the contacts of the displayed friend subset, and the future social events to be attended by both the selected contact and the user is provided to the user.