Patent ID: 9495660
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: authenticating a user of a social networking service, wherein the social networking service maintains lists of contacts associated with the user that can be used by the user to selectively share content; identifying, by a processing device, communications between the user and contacts from the lists, the communications corresponding to attributes comprising a time of the communication and a type of medium of the communication; ascertaining, by the processing device, a proposed group of contacts from at least one of the lists based on: providing the proposed group of contacts for presentation to the user, with a recommendation that the user create a new list of contacts associated with the user from the proposed group of contacts; and responsive to the user indicating acceptance of the recommendation, creating the new list of contacts associated with the user from the proposed group.