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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:
Jun. 21, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 11, 2013
Applicant:

Flipboard, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Arthur Anthonie van Hoff, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Markus Manfred Breunig, Rosenheim, DE;

Assignee:

Flipboard, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30324 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30648 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); H04L 65/40 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

Connections between an online system user and one or more social networking system users maintained by various social networking systems are analyzed to determine social proximity between the online system user and social networking system users connected to the online system user via a social networking system. Social networking system users connected to the online system user via each of a plurality of social networking systems are identified. Based on a number of social networking system users connected to both the online system user and to a social networking system user connected to the online system user, a social proximity score indicating relative social 'closeness' of the digital magazine server user and the social networking system user connected to the digital magazine server user is generated.


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