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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Yahoo Holdings, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Frank J. Cort, Dublin, CA (US);
Joshua Robert Russell Jacobson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 17/30575 (2013.01); H04L 67/1095 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes: generating profile data for users including a first user, the profile data related to contacts or persons used in messages to or from each user; generating, via a server platform, parameters corresponding to the profile data for ranking contacts or persons; and transmitting the parameters to client devices to allow each client device to determine ranks of contacts or persons in the profile data based on the parameters and a function that uses the parameters.