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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2015
Applicant:

Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Junghoon (Andrew) Ahn, Cupertino, CA (US);

Abhishek Gupta, San Francisco, CA (US);

Christian Posse, Forster City, CA (US);

Anmol Bhasin, Los Altos, CA (US);

Yurong Shi, San Jose, CA (US);

Jian Li, Cupertino, CA (US);

Jacob Kessler, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

LinkedIn Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06F 17/30861 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems and machine readable medium for recommending an out-of-network communication by determining a set of potential recommended members of a social networking service based upon one or more recommendation criteria. In some examples the recommendation criteria may include: a profile similarity to a previous target of an out-of-network communication, a degree of correspondence between an interest and intent of the sending member, and a likelihood of response.


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