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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:
Oct. 18, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2012
Applicant:

Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Christina Allen, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Farid Hosseini, San Francisco, CA (US);

M. Christopher Pruet, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Sarah Jean Culberson Alpern, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

LinkedIn Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/22 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30554 (2013.01); G06Q 10/105 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for presenting a decision user interface to a first member of a social network service, receiving information identifying a set of interests of the first member entered at the decision user interface, searching at least one of the group consisting or profiles of members of the social network service and user decision interfaces presented to members of the social network service and, responsive to searching, providing information relating to the set of interests to the first member. The set of interests may include a field of study or an organization or an academic degree.


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