Social network searching with breadcrumbs

This invention describes a system that helps you search for information by showing how results are connected to people in your social network. While the original claims for displaying these connections were canceled, the remaining claims focus on the underlying process: creating internal data records for individuals and their social connections, and linking documents to these individuals within the social network.

Why it matters: Filed before the widespread application of advanced graph databases and large language models, which could now significantly enhance the automated generation and inference of the complex social network data structures and document-to-person links described in the remaining claims.

Status: Not in forceListed as no longer active. The specific reason is not in the record we hold.
How hard to build: SpecializedSocial network data processing, database management.

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