Systems And Methods For Determining User Attribute Values By Mining User Network Data And Information

Systems and methods for determining one or more attributes and their associated values for a user, by mining the user's social network profiles. The systems and methods determine if the value of an attribute of interest for a user is specified on one or more social networking websites. If so, the systems and methods set the attribute value for the user to the specified attribute value. If not, the systems and methods retrieve, from the social networking websites, attribute values for the attribute of interest for friends of the user to form a group of possible attribute values for the user. The method, selects a value from the group of possible attribute values, and then sets the selected value as the attribute value for the user.