Patents by Inventor Danah Michele Body

Danah Michele Body has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS THROUGH USE OF A TRUSTED NETWORK
    Publication number: 20100312644
    Abstract: Described herein are various techniques for automatically generating recommendations for a user based upon a social network of the user. A user can request a recommendation for a particular context, and a social network of the user can be automatically pared to create a subnetwork, wherein individuals in the subnetwork have provided ratings for the particular context and/or contexts that are in some way related to the particular context. The knowledge/ratings of individuals in the subnetwork may then be leveraged to automatically generate the recommendation for the particular context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Herwarth Borgs, Danah Michele Body, Jennifer Tour Chayes, Adam Tauman Kalai, Moshe Tennenholtz