Patent ID: 9729648
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: obtaining interaction information identifying an implicit interaction between a user and a plurality of objects of a social networking system with which the user has not established a connection; identifying, based on the obtained interaction information, a set of soft connections between the user and the plurality of objects with which the user has interacted implicitly; generating a candidate list of soft connections from the set of soft connections; identifying additional objects to include as soft connections in the candidate list of soft connections based on a similarity between the additional objects and objects of the soft connections in the candidate list; extracting ranking signals from the soft connections in the candidate list of soft connections; ranking the soft connections in the candidate list of soft connections based on the extracted ranking signals; and selecting one or more objects identified by the soft connections from the candidate list of soft connections to recommend to the user based on the rank associated with the soft connection.