DETERMINING A USER'S RANK IN A SOCIAL NETWORK

Patent №

US 9,972,057

Granted

2018-05-15

Filed 2015

Owner

LINKEDIN CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

4

ml · kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14663383

In an embodiment, a technique is disclosed herein to determine a first group of users for which a particular user is a member and automatically generate a first ranking of users in the first group. For the particular user, automatically generate one or more first action recommendations to increase rank among the users in the first group. And to a device accessible by the particular user, automatically provide a particular ranking of the particular user from among the first ranking and the one or more first action recommendations.

AI classification

Planning0.99
Evolutionary computation0.95
Knowledge representation0.94
Machine learning0.91
Natural language0.21
AI hardware0.04
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

LINKEDIN CORPORATION

assignment · 352170001

Assignors

XIA, JINCHUN, KESSLER, JACOB, CHIEN, ELAINE, CHEN, ZHIJUN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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