US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 16 for "Augmented follow probability for social networking system follow recommendations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,251, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Augmented follow probability for social networking system follow recommendations" was invented by Andrew O. Hatch (Berkeley, Calif.), Yan Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Keqing Liang (Cupertino, Calif.), Da Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bixing Yan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Haohua Wan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a social networking system involve analyzing members' interactions to enhance follow recommendations. The techniques include calculating the number of follows generated by a first member and the number of fol...