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(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,549,651 B2 Callahan Et Al USOO8549651 B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,549,651 B2 Callahan et al. (45) Date of Patent: Oct. 1, 2013 (54) DETERMINING ATRUST LEVEL INA 2002, 0046243 A1 4/2002 Morris et al. SOCIAL NETWORKENVIRONMENT 2002/0059201 A1 5, 2002 Work 2003/0061503 A1 3/2003 Katz et al. 2003. O145093 A1 7, 2003 Oren (75) Inventors: Ezra Callahan, Palo Alto, CA (US); 2003,0222918 A1 12/2003 Coulthard Aditya Agarwal, San Francisco, CA 2003,0225632 A1 12/2003 Tong (US); Charlie Cheever, Palo Alto, CA 2004/0003283 A1 1/2004 Goodman et al. ............ T13 201 2004.0024846 A1 2/2004 Randall (US); Chris Putnam, Palo Alto, CA 2004/OO88177 A1 5, 2004 Travis (US); Bob Trahan, Palo Alto, CA (US) 2004/O148275 A1 7/2004 Achlioptas 2005, OO15488 A1 1/2005 Bayyapu (73) Assignee: Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US) 2005/0O21750 A1 1/2005 Abrams 2005/0097319 A1* 5, 2005 Zhu et al. ...................... T13,166 (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 (Continued) U.S.C. 154(b) by 901 days. OTHER PUBLICATIONS (21) Appl. No.: 11/701,595 Flores, Fernando et al. "Computer systems and the design of organi zational interaction.” In ACM Transactions on Information Systems (22) Filed: Feb. 2, 2007 (TOIS), vol. 6, Issue 2, Apr. 1988. (65) Prior Publication Data (Continued) US 2008/O1897.68 A1 Aug. 7, 2008 Primary Examiner — Gilberto Barron, Jr. Assistant Examiner — David Le (51) Int. C. (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Fenwick & West LLP G06F2L/00 (2013.01) (52) U.S. C. (57) ABSTRACT USPC ............................................. 726/26; 705/319 A system and method for determining a trust level for a (58) Field of Classification Search non-approved user in a social network is described. 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