Identifying and using identities deemed to be known to a user

Details Identifying and using identities deemed to be known to a user Identifying and using identities deemed to be known to a user

2003-12-30

2009-10-13

Jean, Frantz B (Department: 2454)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer conferencing

Demand based messaging

C379S088220

Reexamination Certificate

active

07603417

ABSTRACT:
The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. For example, people a user knows may be inferred based on a combination of two or more user actions, each of which separately support an inference that the person is associated with the user. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications.

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