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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jason Schissel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Utku Ozan Candogan, Durham, NC (US);
Kimon Drakopoulos, Sommerville, MA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides for a social networking server that helps a member of a social networking service find a bridge between his or her current skill set and skills associated with a job listed on the social networking service. The social networking server forms a skills graph for the members of the social networking service, where nodes of the skills graph correspond to skills possessed by the members. The nodes are collected into pairs, where an edge between a selected pair is established based on a confidence measure that a given member possesses each skill of the selected pair. By traversing a path through the nodes of the skills graph, the social networking service helps a member identify intermediary skills that the member could learn to help bridge a gap between his or her current skill set and skills associated with a job opening.