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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2020
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Aastha Nigam, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Parag Agrawal, Mountain View, CA (US);
Aastha Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Operations for facilitating establishment of connections in an online network are disclosed. A set of connection recommendations for a first entity associated with the online network is accessed. For each connection recommendation in the set of connection recommendations, a ranking value associated with the connection recommendation is accessed, a utility value corresponding to the connection recommendation is determined, and an adjusted the ranking value for the connection recommendation is calculated. The utility value is a two-sided utility value that combines a prediction of a utility of the first entity and a prediction of a utility of a second entity with respect to a key performance indicator. A set of connection recommendations is communicated for presentation in an interactive user interface of a client device associated with the first entity in accordance with the adjusted ranking value of each connection recommendation.