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Selecting Content For Presentation To An Online System User Based On Affinities Of The User For Additional Users Inferred From An Organizational Chart

  • US 20160381172A1
  • Filed: 06/25/2015
  • Published: 12/29/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving information identifying a plurality of users of an online system, the information including a user profile associated with each user of the plurality of users;

    storing the information identifying the plurality of users of the online system;

    receiving information describing an organizational chart for an organization, the organizational chart indicating connections among the plurality of users defined by each user'"'"'s role in the organization;

    providing a social networking environment to the plurality of users, the social networking environment enabling the plurality of users to establish connections and to communicate with each other;

    computing measures of affinity of each user of the plurality of users for additional users of the plurality of users, the computed measures of affinity based at least in part on the received information describing the organizational chart;

    establishing one or more inferred connections between pairs of the plurality of users, the implicit connections established by comparing the computed measures of affinity to a threshold value;

    receiving a request to present content to a viewing user of the plurality of users;

    ranking one or more content items associated with a set of users of the plurality of users for whom an inferred connection was established with the viewing user;

    selecting one or more of the content items based at least in part on the ranking; and

    sending the selected one or more content items for display to the viewing user.

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