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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2012
Ullas Gargi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanketh Shetty, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tomá{hacek Over (S)} I{hacek Over (Z)}o, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Duhadway, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kevin Snow Mccurley, San Jose, CA (US);
Nisarg Dilipkumar Kothari, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ullas Gargi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanketh Shetty, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tomá{hacek over (s)} I{hacek over (z)}o, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Duhadway, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kevin Snow McCurley, San Jose, CA (US);
Nisarg Dilipkumar Kothari, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for assessing sharing of items within a social network is provided. The method includes identifying a first sharing of a social item by a first user of a social network, determining one or more second sharings of the social item by one or more second users, the one or more second sharings being based on the first sharing. The method also includes determining a sharing score associated with the first user based on a number of the one or more second sharings, and updating a data structure based on the determined sharing score associated with the first user. The data structure stores respective sharing scores associated with the plurality of users of the social network. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.