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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Michelle M. Aleong, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul A. Elliott, Woodinville, WA (US);
Bhupinder S. Sethi, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric J. Zappa, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described to establish one-way public relationships. In an implementation, a service manager module is usable to configure a webpage for output to a client over a network to provide to a user of the client an indication of others users that are part of a social network of the user and have establishes one-way public relationships, respectively, with another user corresponding to an object of a social networking service available from a service provider. In addition, a relation module is configured to establish a one-way public relationship between the user of the client and the other user corresponding to the object without establishing a mutual friend relationship between the user and the other user. In an implementation, the one-way public relationship is established in response to user selection of a control that is presented on the webpage that is output at the client in conjunction with the object.
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