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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2019
Ebay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Neelakantan Sundaresan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vasilios Mitrokostas, West Yarmouth, MA (US);
Lauren Olver, Worcester, MA (US);
Chi-Hsien Chiu, Milpitas, CA (US);
Jean-David Ruvini, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Badrul M. Sarwar, San Jose, CA (US);
Hill Trung Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
There is provided a method and system for qualification testing in a social network service. Qualification testing provides access control into a social network, wherein qualification is based on answers to questions related to a topic. In one example, members admitted to the network provide guidance, notes and research assistance to another member. The social network members access the social network from an external networked computing service, such as another social network, to facilitate easy connection to potential members. The social network may be implemented as an application overlay to the external service, or may access connections in the external network.