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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Heidi Kenyon, Bellingham, WA (US);
Choo Yei Chong, Redmond, WA (US);
Megan Elizabeth Slater, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Michael Dollar, Renton, WA (US);
Wende Ellen Copfer, Woodinville, WA (US);
Venkata Sreekanth Kannepalli, Redmond, WA (US);
Shabnam Erfani, Kirkland, WA (US);
Amy Lieh-An Huang, Seattle, WA (US);
Neha Parikh Shah, Glen Ridge, NJ (US);
Edward Michael Doran, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for facilitating convergence includes receiving data relating to a first user's history of connections with other users, receiving contextual data about the first user, the contextual data including organizational graph data, providing the data and the contextual data as inputs to a trained machine-learning (ML) model for identifying a second user for the first user to connect with based on the data and the contextual data, receiving the identified second user as an output from the trained ML model, and providing the identified second user as a connection suggestion for display in a user interface element.