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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Nikita Igorevych Lytkin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Navneet Kapur, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Method and system to determine a company rank utilizing on-line social network data are described. A company ranking system is configured to access a base set of member profiles, construct a talent flow graph having nodes that represent respective companies and edges that represent transitions of employees from one company to another, and determine a node score for each node by applying a ranking algorithm to the graph. In one embodiment, a company ranking system generates perturbed versions of the base set by using bootstrap resampling procedure and uses the perturbed versions of the base set to calculate ranking data for the nodes in the talent flow graph in the form of node scores. The distribution of the node scores included in the ranking data calculated for a given node is used to determine a desirability score for the company represented by the node.