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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2014
Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Senthil Sundaram, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Rahul Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
LinkedIn Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for enhancing search results generated by a search engine are described. A first set of member profiles is identified, the first set of member profiles satisfying a search query initiated by a searcher. A second set of member profiles is identified, the second set of member profiles having a relationship between a profile of the searcher and each of the second set of member profiles. A subset of the second set of member profiles is selected based on strength of relationships between each of the subset of the second set of member profiles and the first set of member profiles. A portion of each of the first set of member profiles is communicated for presentation in a first region of a search results user interface and a portion of each of the subset of the second set of member profiles is communicated for presentation in a second region of the search results user interface.