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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2012
Shakti Dhirendraji Sinha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xufei Wang, Tempe, AZ (US);
Jiong Wang, San Ramon, CA (US);
Shakti Dhirendraji Sinha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xufei Wang, Tempe, AZ (US);
Jiong Wang, San Ramon, CA (US);
LINKEDIN CORPORATION, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for estimating, in real time, the likelihood that any particular member of a social network service is a third degree connection of another member are described. Consistent with some embodiments, various member profile attributes of a member are used as a sort of proxy for determining the likelihood or probability that the member is a third degree connection of another member. For example, in some instances, the number of first-degree connections a member has is used to derive a probability score indicating the likelihood that the member is a third-degree connection of another member, such as a person performing a people-search. Once derived, the probability score for each member may be used in various applications, such as a people-search engine, to boost or increase a ranking score assigned to each search result and used to order the search results when presented to the user who has performed the search.