Linkedin Corporation

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Junghoon (Andrew) Ahn

Yurong Shi

Abhishek Gupta

Anmol Bhasin

Christian Posse

Jian H Li

Jacob Kessler

Lizabeth Li

Venu Javarappa

Systems and methods for reducing a churn rate associated with subscribers of social network services are described. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods may access activity information associated with a former subscriber of a social network service, compare the accessed activity information to activity information associated with subscribers of the social network service, identify one or more differences between the activity information associated with the former subscriber of the social network service and the activity information associated with the subscribers of the social network service, and perform an action based on the identified one or more differences.

Reducing churn rate for a social network service

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems and machine readable medium for recommending an out-of-network communication by determining a set of potential recommended members of a social networking service based upon one or more recommendation criteria. In some examples the recommendation criteria may include: a profile similarity to a previous target of an out-of-network communication, a degree of correspondence between an interest and intent of the sending member, and a likelihood of response.

Suggested out of network communication recipients

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Junghoon (Andrew) Ahn