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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:
May. 23, 2017

Filed:

May. 09, 2013
Applicant:

Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Heyning Cheng, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Navneet Kapur, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ganesh Ramesh, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

LinkedIn Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/40 (2013.01); H04L 65/1089 (2013.01); H04L 65/4053 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for presenting recommendations for resources to be used by members in learning about and/or acquiring a skill are described. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods receive information associated with a skill from a member of a social network, identify members of the social network that are associated with the skill, receive information from the identified members of the social network that identifies one or more resources associated with the skill, and generate a list of recommended resources that is based on the information received from the identified members of the social network.


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