Methods and systems for determining use and content of PYMK based on value model

US10587705B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• FACEBOOK, INC. · US

Inventors

• Alexander Paul Schultz · San Francisco, US
• Brian Piepgrass · Mountain View, US
• Ching-Chih Weng · Newark, US
• Daniel Ferrante · Redwood City, US
• Deeptanshu Verma · Sunnyvale, US
• Peter Henry Martinazzi · San Francisco, US
• Thomas Alison · Palo Alto, US
• Ziqing Mao · Mountain View, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 24, 2012
• Grant date: Mar 10, 2020
• Expiry date: Apr 7, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/01
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques introduced here include a system and method for determining whether to provide a user of a social networking system with candidate users (i.e., potential contacts) with whom the user does not already have any connections with. In some embodiments, the system generates a set of candidate users based on a value (e.g., to the social networking system) associated with each potential connection formed between the user and the set of candidate users. In one or more embodiments, the system ranks the candidate users based on their connection-value to the social networking system and provides the ranked candidate users as suggested new connections to the user.