US 11,657,902 B2
Finding relatives in a database
Lawrence Hon, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Serge Saxonov, Oakland, CA (US); Brian Thomas Naughton, Mountain View, CA (US); Joanna Louise Mountain, Menlo Park, CA (US); Anne Wojcicki, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Linda Avey, Lafayette, CA (US)
Assigned to 23andMe, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by 23andMe, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/975,949.
Application 17/975,949 is a continuation of application No. 17/576,738, filed on Jan. 14, 2022, granted, now 11,508,461.
Application 17/576,738 is a continuation of application No. 17/351,052, filed on Jun. 17, 2021, granted, now 11,322,227, issued on May 3, 2022.
Application 17/351,052 is a continuation of application No. 17/073,110, filed on Oct. 16, 2020, granted, now 11,049,589, issued on Jun. 29, 2021.
Application 17/073,110 is a continuation of application No. 16/129,645, filed on Sep. 12, 2018, abandoned.
Application 16/129,645 is a continuation of application No. 15/264,493, filed on Sep. 13, 2016, abandoned.
Application 15/264,493 is a continuation of application No. 13/871,744, filed on Apr. 26, 2013, abandoned.
Application 13/871,744 is a continuation of application No. 12/644,791, filed on Dec. 22, 2009, granted, now 8,463,554, issued on Jun. 11, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/204,195, filed on Dec. 31, 2008.
Prior Publication US 2023/0059254 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G16B 50/00 (2019.01); G16B 50/30 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G16B 10/00 (2019.01); G16B 30/00 (2019.01); G06N 5/048 (2023.01)
CPC G16B 50/30 (2019.02) [G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06N 5/048 (2013.01); G16B 10/00 (2019.02); G16B 30/00 (2019.02); G16B 50/00 (2019.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a computing system and from a first user and a second user, opt-in elections to consent to being presented with information about potential relatives among a plurality of users in a relative finder database, wherein the relative finder database comprises recombinable deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence information of the plurality of users, including that of the first user and the second user;
determining, by the computing system, identical-by-descent (IBD) segments of the recombinable DNA of the first user and the recombinable DNA of the second user based on common patterns of nucleotides between the first user and the second user;
determining, by the computing system, a number of the IBD segments and an amount of the recombinable DNA shared by the first user and the second user;
based on the number of the IBD segments and the amount of the recombinable DNA shared by the first user and the second user, estimating, by the computing system, a relative relationship between the first user and the second user; and
providing, by the computing system and for display on a client device of the first user or the second user, a representation of a graphical user interface indicating the relative relationship between the first user and the second user.