Patent ID: 9583016
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G09B

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: maintaining for a plurality of users of an online system, profiles, wherein the profile maintained for each of the plurality of users describes one or more attributes associated with the corresponding user of the plurality of users; wherein a first profile that is associated with a first user of the plurality of users includes first attribute values, and a second profile that is associated with a second user of the plurality of users includes second attribute values; automatically inferring one or more of the first attribute values based, at least in part, on data collected by the online system for the first user; automatically inferring one or more of the second attribute values based, at least in part, on data collected by the online system for the second user; in response to a request, from the first user, to interact with one or more other users of the plurality of users: wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.