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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2016
Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Haiying Cai, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hui Li, San Jose, CA (US);
LinkedIn Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for virally growing a social network. The social network system receives a member account sign-up message for a first social network from a first member. The social network system then posts a member sign-up notification to the first member's event wall on a second social network; wherein the first member has one or more social contacts through the second social network. For at least a second respective member in the one or more social contacts, the social network system posts a personalized invitation message as a comment to the member sign-up notification on the first member's event wall, wherein the comment is initially hidden from all members other than the second respective member of the one or more member contacts.