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Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Yahoo Holdings, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Brian Hein, Pacifica, CA (US);

Jon New, San Mateo, CA (US);

Assignee:

YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/22 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods to define a social network for a user using data implied by communications of the user with others. In one embodiment, a method includes scanning messages to identify persons addressed in the messages; computing scores of the persons to determine a relevancy of each person; receiving, by a first computing device, a request from a computer program running on a second computing device; in response to the request from the computer program, providing access to friend data for the persons, the computer program to provide services based on the friend data; and sending the friend data to the second computing device.


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