This is an interesting patent application, in part because of its techniques and in part because — like many technology-related patent applications — it’s hard to see how it’s particularly novel. The idea of using someone’s social graph to find influential connections that could inform mobile-app recommendations is pretty good, but at the core aren’t we just talking about the decision to value one variable more than another in a recommendation system?
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