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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2016
Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Siyu You, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aman Grover, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Manoj Rameshchandra Thakur, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for inferring service opportunities are provided. In example embodiments, a member event associated with a particular member of a social networking service is detected. In response to detecting the member event, a service request for a particular service is inferred based on the member event. A provider member capable of fulfilling the inferred service request is identified among members of the social networking service. A match score for each of the identified provider members is calculated. The identified provider members are ranked according to the calculated match score. At least a portion of the ranked identified provider members are presented on a user interface.