US Patent Issued to Ifwe on April 21 for "Determining and managing social interaction options in social networking environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,977, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ifwe Inc. (San Francisco).

"Determining and managing social interaction options in social networking environments" was invented by Johann Schleier-Smith (San Francisco), Greg Tseng (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jared Kim (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for determining and managing social interaction options for social connections such as, for example, friendships in a social networking environment. In one embodiment, users of a social network are provided with more granularity in controlling the social interactions asso...