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Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 13, 2012
Applicant:

Roy Ben-yoseph, Ashburn, VA (US);

Inventor:

Roy Ben-Yoseph, Ashburn, VA (US);

Assignee:

FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/50 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/24 (2013.01); H04L 12/5815 (2013.01); H04L 51/043 (2013.01); H04L 67/36 (2013.01); H04L 12/585 (2013.01);
Abstract

The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications. For example access to a user's online presence may be restricted based on the known people such that access to presence is provided only to those people that the user knows.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Ben-Yoseph, Roy. (2017). Methods of providing access to messages based on degrees of separation (U.S. Patent No. 9736255). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9736255

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