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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Bo Hu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shan Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
Qi Guo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xianren Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Anish Ramdas Nair, Fremont, CA (US);
Patrick Cheung, San Francisco, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method includes receiving a search query and obtaining, from a database, member data of a member. For each of a plurality of nonlinear models, the nonlinear model is traversed based on a comparison of characteristics to conditions to obtain a score, wherein, among the nonlinear models, at least one characteristic is an inferred characteristic based on at least one of: activities by the member in an online networking system; and connections by the member in the online networking system. The score obtained from each of the nonlinear models is combined to obtain a combined score and a user interface to displays information related to the member based, at least in part on the combined score.