UNIFYING SOCIAL GRAPHS ACROSS MULTIPLE SOCIAL NETWORKS

摘要

Software for the unification of user profiles on socialnetworking sites is disclosed, which can be used to yield aconsolidated social graph for a user of multiple socialnetworks. Multiple social networks to which the user is asubscriber are queried and a unified social graph for theuser is returned. Previously unseen linkages between usersof disparate social networks can be located using theunified graph for a user. Appropriate security controls toallow connections of the user to control their inclusion inthe unified graph can be provided.