SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CONTACTS OF A TARGET USER IN A SOCIAL NETWORK

摘要

When using Web intelligence (“Webint”) to collect information regarding a target social network user, one of the most valuable pieces of information is the target user's List-Of-Friends (LOF). In some cases, however, the LOF of the target user is not accessible in his profile. Herein are described methods and systems for identifying the LOF of a target user. An analysis system crawls the profiles of social network users, other than the target user, and reconstructs the LOF of the target user from the crawled profiles.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving a request to identify a group of users of one or more social networks, who are defined as contacts of a target user of the social networks; responsively to the request, analyzing one or more profiles of respective users of the social networks, other than the target user, and reconstructing the contacts of the target user from the analyzed profiles.