Patent Document ID: 10049223
Application ID: 14686562
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: receiving, from a client device, input that includes a set of multiple email addresses; in response to receiving the input: identifying a plurality of feature values associated with the input; based on the plurality of feature values, generating a score; based on the score, determining whether to send, to the client device, information about multiple users, each user being different than a user of the client device and being associated with an email address in the set of multiple email addresses; determining, based on the score, to not send, to the client device, information about any user that is associated with any email address in the set of multiple email addresses; prior receiving the input, storing profile data about a plurality of users in a social network; wherein each user of the multiple users is one user of the plurality of users; wherein the information is a portion of the profile data; wherein each user of the multiple users provided a portion of the information to a social networking system that stores the profile data; wherein generating the score comprises providing the plurality of feature values to a model that is trained on a plurality of features corresponding to the plurality of feature values; wherein the model generates the score; wherein the plurality of feature values include one or more of: a number of days since a particular user associated with the client device has registered with an entity that receives the set of email addresses, a number of uploads of sets of email addresses in a particular period of time, a number of email addresses in the set of email addresses, whether the number of email addresses in the set of email addresses is a multiple of a particular round number, whether all email addresses in the set of email addresses start with three or fewer characters, a fraction of the set of email addresses that begin with the most common letter, a number of distinct first letters in the domain name portion of the set of email addresses, whether all email addresses in the set of email addresses begin with an uppercase letter, whether all email addresses in the set of email addresses begin with a lowercase letter, or a degree of closeness of the number of email addresses, in the set of email addresses, to a multiple of a first round number; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.