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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2011
Aliza Duenas Carpio, San Diego, CA (US);
Alan F. Buhler, Escondido, CA (US);
Joseph Elwell, San Diego, CA (US);
Aliza Duenas Carpio, San Diego, CA (US);
Alan F. Buhler, Escondido, CA (US);
Joseph Elwell, San Diego, CA (US);
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method to qualify a partner candidate, including accessing a social network to retrieve social network data about the partner candidate; parsing the social network data to extract a social network data item corresponding to a characteristics category relating to a characteristic of the partner candidate; determining per category weighting factors corresponding to characteristics categories and representing a focus of the social network; comparing, using a keyword library comprising pre-determined keywords and pre-determined keyword similarity measures, the social network data item and a self-described attribute of the partner candidate to generate a characteristics category score, wherein a range of the characteristics category score is determined by a corresponding per category weighting factor; and assigning the characteristics category score to the self-described attribute, wherein the characteristics category score represents a validity measure of the self-described attribute based on the social network data.