Patent Document ID: 8856235
Application ID: 13945615

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: maintaining a user profile for each of a plurality of users of a social networking system, each user profile comprising a set of attributes; selecting a user from the plurality of users; identifying, by a computer, a plurality of interactions between the selected user and one or more of a set of users who are connected to the selected user in the social networking system; inferring, by the computer, a value of an attribute of the user profile for the selected user based on one or more of: topic analysis of the one or more identified interactions and sentiment analysis associated with one or more topics identified in the one or more identified interactions; determining relevant information for the selected user based on the inferred user profile attribute; and sending the relevant information to the selected user.

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Claim 8:
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the set of users is determined to be a subset of users connected to the selected user, the subset determined based on a type value of a connection between the user and the selected user.