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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:
Apr. 25, 2017

Filed:

May. 29, 2012
Applicants:

Emily K. Moxley, San Francisco, CA (US);

Vinod Anupam, Cupertino, CA (US);

Hobart Sze, Mountain View, CA (US);

Dani Suleman, Fremont, CA (US);

Khanh B. Nguyen, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Emily K. Moxley, San Francisco, CA (US);

Vinod Anupam, Cupertino, CA (US);

Hobart Sze, Mountain View, CA (US);

Dani Suleman, Fremont, CA (US);

Khanh B. Nguyen, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining influence in a social community. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a user in a community; determining an influence score to be associated with the user in the community for a particular topic, including: determining a reach of one or more communications that relate to the particular topic that have been distributed from the user to other users in the community, and evaluating the reach as compared to the reach of one or more communications distributed from other users in the community for the particular topic; and storing the influence score in association with the user.


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