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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120209832 | SOCIAL NETWORK BASED CONTEXTUAL RANKING - A ranked set of users may be calculated from an expertise categorization for each user and a person's trust in the users for specific categories. The ranked set of users may be used for presenting search results, recommendations, social marketing, or other uses. A person's reputation may be determined through various online activities. A person's trust in another person may be related to their proximity and activity in one or more social networks. | 08-16-2012 |
20100100943 | Permissions using a Namespace - Permissions using a namespace is described. In an embodiment, a namespace system includes a network resource that has a resource permission, and includes a namespace that has one or more members associated with the namespace. The namespace system also includes a namespace permission to permission the network resource to one or more of the members of the namespace. | 04-22-2010 |