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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2011
Michael Quoc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dan Wascovich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Fukuda, San Francisco, CA (US);
E. Stanley Ott, Iv, Palo Alto, CA (US);
F. Randall Farmer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Edward Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan James Trevor, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael Quoc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dan Wascovich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Fukuda, San Francisco, CA (US);
E. Stanley Ott, IV, Palo Alto, CA (US);
F. Randall Farmer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Edward Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan James Trevor, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a user to disambiguate an identity of a member included in a user's social network (USN), and towards enabling an operation to be performed based on information about the member. The USN is determined. The NID of the member is received. If the NID is non-unique within the USN, member distinctions are determined for members in the USN who are associated with the same NID. The member distinctions are sent to the user. The user makes a selection of one of the members associated with one of the member distinctions. Based on the selection, information about the selected member is received. The operation is enabled to be performed based on the information about the selected member. The operation may include addressing the selected member, enabling a communication between the user and the selected member, or the like.