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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ravi Kiran Holur Vijay, Mountain View, CA (US);
Benjamin Arai, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Hull, San Jose, CA (US);
Utku Irmak, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pramod Khincha, Mountain View, CA (US);
Samir M. Shah, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ji Yan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lawrence Yuan, Campbell, CA (US);
LinkedIn Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for optimizing a delivery time for the delivery of messages are described. According to various embodiments, members of an online social network service that are currently located in a particular geographic location (e.g., a particular time zone) are identified. Thereafter, messages (e.g., e-mails) are transmitted to the members at multiple local times (e.g., multiple times of the day). It is then determined that one or more of the messages that were transmitted at a particular local time have received a highest value for a response metric among the messages, the response metric indicating responses by the members to the messages. The particular local time is then classified as an optimum local message delivery time for the particular geographic location.