Patent ID: 9419820
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining social connection data included in communications, the social connection data including identifiers for each communicating party of a plurality of communicating parties and a device identifier associated with an end user, the end user being one of the communicating parties; grouping the communications together based upon the device identifier; based on the grouping, generating a first communications-based social network for the end user from the determined social connection data; generating a second communications-based social network for a second user; identifying a first hub node in the first communications-based social network that includes first social connection data and a second node in the second communications-based social network that includes the first social connection data, wherein the second node is linked to a second hub node of the second communications-based social network; generating an aggregated social network by merging the first communications-based social network and the second communications-based social network, wherein the aggregated social network includes a linkage between the first hub node in the first communications-based social network and the second hub node in the second communications-based social network, wherein the aggregated social network excludes the second node of the second communications-based social network; determining a connection strength of the linkage based upon metadata and content included in the communications between a first communicating party represented by the first hub node and a second communicating party represented by the second hub node; and providing the end user with a suggested connection for a second social network based on the aggregated social network.