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System, method and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks - Google PatentsSystem, method and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networksDownload PDF

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Publication numberUS7069308B2US7069308B2 US10/462,142 US46214203A US7069308B2 US 7069308 B2 US7069308 B2 US 7069308B2 US 46214203 A US46214203 A US 46214203A US 7069308 B2 US7069308 B2 US 7069308B2AuthorityUSUnited StatesLegal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)ActiveApplication numberUS10/462,142Other versionsUS20050021750A1 (enInventorJonathan H. AbramsCurrent Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)Meta Platforms IncOriginal AssigneeFriendster IncPriority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)2003-06-16Filing date2003-06-16Publication date2006-06-272003-06-16 Application filed by Friendster Inc filed Critical Friendster Inc2003-06-16 Priority to US10/462,142 priority Critical patent/US7069308B2/en2004-01-27 Priority to PCT/US2004/002231 priority patent/WO2005006152A2/en2005-01-27 Publication of US20050021750A1 publication Critical patent/US20050021750A1/en2005-06-17 Priority to US11/156,091 priority patent/US7117254B2/en2005-09-20 Assigned to FRIENDSTER, INC. reassignment FRIENDSTER, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: ABRAMS, JONATHAN H2005-11-04 Assigned to VENTURE LENDING & LEASING III, INC. reassignment VENTURE LENDING & LEASING III, INC. SECURITY INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: FRIENDSTER, INC.2006-06-27 Application granted granted Critical2006-06-27 Publication of US7069308B2 publication Critical patent/US7069308B2/en2006-08-25 Priority to US11/467,297 priority patent/US7188153B2/en2009-12-22 Assigned to BALTHASER ONLINE, INC. reassignment BALTHASER ONLINE, INC. SECURITY AGREEMENT Assignors: FRIENDSTER, INC.2009-12-22 Assigned to FRIENDSTER, INC. reassignment FRIENDSTER, INC. RELEASE BY SECURED PARTY (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: VENTURE LENDING & LEASING III, LLC2010-02-09 Assigned to FRIENDSTER, INC. reassignment FRIENDSTER, INC. RELEASE OF LIMITED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT;ASSIGNOR:BALTHASER ONLINE, INC.;REEL/FRAME:023915/0424

It’s easy to view a person’s LinkedIn profile directly in Teams. When you go to any one-on-one chat, you can quickly see that person’s experience, education, skills, and more. You can also expand your LinkedIn network and connect with people on LinkedIn without leaving Teams. 

Note: Your organization needs to enable the LinkedIn integration in Teams for you to access it. When your organization enables the LinkedIn integration, you can access LinkedIn in Outlook too.  

  1. In Teams, go to any one-on-one chat and click the LinkedIn tab. 

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  2. See that person’s experience, skills, endorsements, and more.  

    What is an application that connects people by matching profile information?

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You can access LinkedIn profiles in Teams without connecting your LinkedIn and Microsoft accounts. But if you choose to connect these accounts, you can discover more about a person in any one-on-one chat in Teams. Find out what you have in common with them, see your degrees of connection, and connect on LinkedIn without leaving Teams. 

Social Networking Sites, such as Facebook and Linkedin, are clear examples of the impact that the Web 2.0 has on people around the world, because they target an aspect of life that is extremely important to anyone: social relationships. The key to building a social network is the ability of finding people that we know in real life, which, in turn, requires those people to make publicly available some personal information, such as their names, family names, locations and birth dates, just to name a few. However, it is not uncommon that individuals create multiple profiles in several social networks, each containing partially overlapping sets of personal information. Matching those different profiles allows to create a global profile that gives a holistic view of the information of an individual. In this paper, we present an algorithm that uses the network topology and the publicly available personal information to iteratively match profiles across n social networks, based on those individuals who disclose the links to their multiple profiles. The evaluation results, obtained on a real dataset composed of around 2 million profiles, show that our algorithm achieves a high accuracy.

Keywords

  • Social Network
  • Personal Information
  • Social Networking Site
  • Transitive Closure
  • Online Social Network

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  1. Supélec E3S, 3, rue Joliot-Curie, 91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Nacéra Bennacer, Coriane Nana Jipmo & Gianluca Quercini

  2. Università di Torino, Corso Svizzera 185, Torino, Italy

    Antonio Penta

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  1. RWTH Aachen University & Fraunhofer FIT, Germany

    Matthias Jarke

  2. Information Engineering and Computer Science Department (DISI), University of Trento, Italy

    John Mylopoulos

  3. Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany

    Christoph Quix

  4. CRI, Université Paris1 Panthéon Sorbonne, 90 Rue de Tolbiac, 75013, Paris, France

    Colette Rolland

  5. Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University, GR-54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Yannis Manolopoulos

  6. School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

    Haralambos Mouratidis

  7. Dipartimento di Scienze ed Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Trento, Trento, Italy

    Jennifer Horkoff

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Bennacer, N., Nana Jipmo, C., Penta, A., Quercini, G. (2014). Matching User Profiles Across Social Networks. In: , et al. Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8484. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07881-6_29

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