Patent ID: 8965974
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for determining a value of an attribute of a user, comprising: a processor in the data processing system determining if the value of the attribute of interest for the user is specified on one or more social networking websites; responsive to a determination that the value of an attribute of the user is not specified, the processor obtaining, from the one or more social networking websites, attribute values for the attribute of interest for friends of the user to form a group of possible attribute values for the user, each of the possible attribute values associated with a concept; the processor assigning a weight to each of the possible attribute values based on a specificity of each of the possible attribute values, wherein the specificity is based on a number of words in each of the possible attribute values; the processor selecting a value from the group of possible attribute values based on the weight; and the processor setting the selected value as the value of the attribute for interest for the user.