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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Thomas Michael Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Xue Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing network expansion. A method includes receiving an indicator that identifies a goal, identifying a target organization at an online social networking service to satisfy the goal, ranking members of the online social networking service that are also members of the target organization according to their respective ability to influence satisfaction of the goal, determining a connection path to one of the higher ranked members, and recommending, to a member, a connection to a next member identified by the connection path.