Patent Document ID: 8290981
Application ID: 13043309

Base Claim:
1. A member searching and analyzing method of a social network, comprising: obtaining a target member by searching a user profile storage based on a profile query from a query user; constructing a relationship linkage from the query user to the target member, wherein the constructing the relationship linkage comprises: obtaining a plurality of node members between the query user and the target member; and calculating a plurality of relationship scores indicating a relationship phase between each and every two of the query user, the target member and the plurality of node members; extracting an optimal path from at least two paths from the query user to the target member according to the relationship linkage; and recommending the optimal path to the query user.

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Claim 2:
2. The member searching and analyzing method of the claim 1 , wherein extracting an optimal path to the target member according to the relationship linkage further comprises: detecting the at least two paths from the query user to the target member; calculating a path value of each of the at least two paths according to the plurality of relationship scores in each of the at least two paths; and selecting the optimal path according to an optimum path value.