Relating people finding results by social distance

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2011-07-12

2011-07-12

Bétit, Jacob F (Department: 2169)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database and file access

Search engines

C707S726000, C707S732000, C705S319000

Reexamination Certificate

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07979411

ABSTRACT:
Search results are displayed according to relevance and grouped by the social distance between the person associated with the profile and the user performing the search. Metadata is defined of each of the profiles indicating groups affiliated the profile and a relevance value is determined as a function of the metadata for each of the profiles in the result set. The social distance is determined as a function of a colleague designation associated with the profile.

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