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US 2017/0374170 A1Published application
Identifying and using identities deemed to be known to a user
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorRoy Ben-Yoseph
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Abstract
The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications. For example access to a user's online presence may be restricted based on the known people such that access to presence is provided only to those people that the user knows.
Claims20
A method of providing online presence information:
- maintaining a list of people known to a user;
- accessing online presence information for the user;
- determining a potential receiver of the online presence information;
- comparing the potential receiver to the maintained list to determine if the potential receiver is included on the list;
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- determining whether to communicate the online presence information to the potential receiver based on whether the potential receiver is included in the list.
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