US Patent:
20130332451, Dec 12, 2013
Inventors:
Dan Chiao - South San Francisco CA, US
Jerry Chou - Taipei, TW
Tom Lee - Mountain View CA, US
Kevin Liu - Seattle WA, US
Robbie Cheng - Taipei, TW
Chiahung Lin - Taipei, TW
Johnson Hsiang - Taipei, TW
Winston Chen - Taipei, TW
Steven Kao - Taipei, TW
Haoji Wu - Taipei, TW
Aleksandra Bailey - San Francisco CA, US
Polina Grinbaum - San Francisco CA, US
Assignee:
FLIPTOP, INC. - San Francisco CA
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
A system and method for correlating personal identifiers with corresponding online presence are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes providing, by use of a data processor, a user interface to enable a user to specify a person or personal identifier of interest; producing search terms associated with the person or personal identifier of interest; using the search terms in a search query to obtain related search results collected from a plurality of content sources; filtering the search results to obtain information indicative of a plurality of profile sources; using the information indicative of a plurality of profile sources to obtain related profiles collected from a plurality of profile sources; filtering the related profiles to obtain a set of matching profiles; and reporting information on the person or personal identifier of interest and links to the corresponding matching profiles to the user.