Patent ID: 8997117
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: G06F,G08B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving one or more indicators for one or more targets associated with a user; creating one or more records for the one or more targets based on the one or more indicators; identifying a first set of one or more secondary connections of the user, wherein at least one of the secondary connections in the first set of one or more secondary connections is a primary connection of a particular primary connection of the user in a social network; after identifying the first set of one or more secondary connections of the user, comparing each of the one or more records with each secondary connection in the first set of one or more secondary connections of the user; automatically and not in response to input from the user: providing an alert when a record of the one or more records matches at least a particular secondary connection in the second set of one or more secondary connections of the user; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.