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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Rohan Ramanath, Saratoga, CA (US);
Irina Belousova, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for embedding user categories into vectors that capture similarities between the user categories. One method includes an operation for building a graph for a category of attributes for users of a social network, the graph including a vertex for each category value. Connections, built between the graph vertices, have a connection value indicating the number of users to which the category values associated with the vertices have been assigned. Further, a first vector for each category value is obtained based on the graph, where a distance between two category values is a function of the connection value between the corresponding vertices. A user vector, based on the first vectors of the category values, is assigned to each user. A search is performed for a given user based on the user vectors, and results are presented to the given user.