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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2012
Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
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);
LinkedIn Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
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.