Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Context-dependent inferred social network
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Application No.: US15041883Application Date: 2016-02-11
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Publication No.: US10679190B1Publication Date: 2020-06-09
- Inventor: Eric Teller
- Applicant: X Development LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: X Development LLC
- Current Assignee: X Development LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Main IPC: G06F11/32
- IPC: G06F11/32 ; G06Q10/10 ; G06Q50/00 ; G06F16/16 ; G06F16/335 ; G06F16/332 ; H04W12/06

Abstract:
Exemplary methods and systems may help to provide content to a user and/or take to take actions on user's behalf, based on a context-specific user-network that includes surrogates for a user in a certain context. An exemplary method may involve: (a) determining a context associated with a first user-profile; (b) determining a context-specific user-network for the first user-profile in the determined context, wherein the context-specific user-network comprises one or more user-profiles that are surrogates for the first user-profile in the determined context; (c) using historical context-to-action data for one or more of the surrogate user-profiles as a basis for determining a context-based action that is appropriate in the determined context; and (d) causing a computing device associated with the first user-profile to initiate the context-based action.
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