Linkedin Corporation

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Eric Ly

James Duncan Work

Allen J Blue

Josh Elman

Edward Tau

Methods and systems for leveraging one's social network in the context of an opportunities marketplace are described. One aspect of the invention involves integrating social networking features into an online marketplace, or exchange. Accordingly, one aspect of the invention involves facilitating an opportunity search in a manner that provides social networking information with the results of the search.

Method and system for leveraging the power of one's social network in an online marketplace

A computer-implemented method for leveraging social networking information with a messaging client are disclosed. In one aspect, a messaging client (e.g., email client), or an application designed to be closely integrated with an email client, analyzes a message to identify a sender, and then generates a query including information identifying the sender that is forwarded to a social networking application to be processed. The social networking application returns information about the sender (e.g., from a social networking profile), that can be viewed by a user of the messaging client, thereby providing additional information about the sender of a particular message.

Method of leveraging social networking with a messaging client

Method and system for leveraging the power of one's social-network in an online marketplace

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Eric Ly