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- Patent Title: Multiple entity merge for ranking objects in a social network
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Application No.: US13856200Application Date: 2013-04-03
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Publication No.: US10372715B1Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Gavin James , Justin Lewis
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
- Main IPC: G06F16/00
- IPC: G06F16/00 ; G06F16/2457

Abstract:
A method for multiple entity merge in a content sharing platform is disclosed. The method includes identifying two or more entities associated with an object of a social network. The method further includes, for each of the identified two or more entities, determining an affinity score between the entity and a user to which the object is presented on the social network. The method also includes applying a function to the determined affinity scores to generate a combined affinity score for the object.
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