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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2014
Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abhishek Nigam, San Jose, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a query containing two or more hops in a graph of online professional network data and one or more predicates containing one or more attributes of the online professional network data. The graph includes nodes representing members and companies, and a set of edges representing relationships between pairs of nodes. The query also includes two or more input nodes, including a first input member and/or an input company, that are used to form a path containing the two or more hops, along with an output that matches the one or more predicates and includes one or more output members. Next, the system executes the query to obtain a subset of the online professional network data matching the query. Finally, the system provides the subset of the online professional network data in response to the query.