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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Choo Yei Chong, Redmond, WA (US);
Heidi Kenyon, Bellingham, WA (US);
Neha Parikh Shah, Glen Ridge, NJ (US);
Deepa Shenvi Priolkar, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher Michael Dollar, Renton, WA (US);
Jin Young Kim, Seattle, WA (US);
Aaron Nash Melhaff, Seattle, WA (US);
Venkata Sreekanth Kannepalli, Redmond, WA (US);
Wende E. Copfer, Woodinville, WA (US);
Harald Becker, Seattle, WA (US);
Amy L. Huang, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method for friction reduction during professional network expansion is implemented via a computing system including a processor. The method includes executing, via a network, an enterprise application on a remote computing system operated by a user associated with an enterprise and surfacing a professional networking UI on a display of the remote computing system during execution of the enterprise application. The method includes generating parameters that are representative of a connection between the user and each suggested professional contact based on enterprise-level data corresponding to the user and each suggested professional contact and generating friction-reducing UI elements for each suggested professional contact based on the generated parameters. The method includes receiving, via the professional networking UI, user input including a command to open a contact connection page corresponding to one of the suggested professional contacts and surfacing the corresponding contact connection page including the generated friction-reducing UI elements.