Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Erica M Lockheimer

Yang Zhou

Samir Mavji Shah

Lili Wu

Haifeng Ji

Manas S Khadilkar

Muhammad Aatif Awan

Peter B Rusev

When a user of a social network accepts an invitation message to connect with another user of the social network, a system may use a history of user activity to determine where the user is subsequently directed within the social-network website. In particular, based on the history of user activity associated with an in-network page with recommendations for possible connections for the user within the network of users, the system may determine whether or not there have been too many impressions of the in-network page. If not, the system may present the in-network page with a recommendation for a possible in-network connection for the user within the network of users. Then, if the system receives a user selection of the possible in-network connection, the system may provide an invitation message inviting the possible in-network connection to connect with the user by activating a link in the invitation message.

User-specific and user-activity-based routing within a website

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Monte Sereno, CA, United States of America

Erica M Lockheimer