Skills endorsements

• US 10,397,364 B2
• Filed: 06/22/2018
• Issued: 08/27/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Jayaram, Vinodh, Skomoroch, Peter N., Hayes, Matthew T, Nash, Adam, Breger, David Michael, Gupta, Prachi, Shmukler, Elliot, Moon, Avery Randolph
• Primary Examiner(s): Osman, Ramy M
• Application Number:
  US16/015,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20180332135A1
• Time in Patent Office: 431 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/334 Query execution G06F16/335 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/337 Profile generation, learning or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Disclosed in some examples is a method comprising determining a first set of high ranking skills, the first set containing skills possessed by a member of the social networking service based upon the member'"'"'s user profile; determining a second set of high ranking skills, the second set containing skills for a second member of the social networking service based on the second member'"'"'s user profile; determining a third set of high ranking skills, the third set being the intersection between the first and second set of high ranking skills; and suggesting one or more of the skills in the third set of high ranking skills to the member for endorsement of the second member with respect to that skill.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

using one or more computer processors;

receiving an indication that a first user with a first member profile has visited a member profile page of a second user with a second member profile;

selecting at least one particular skill corresponding to the first member profile and the second member profile that is one of a predetermined number of highest ranked skills for both the first and second member, the highest ranked skills based upon the first and second member profiles;

presenting a graphical user interface to the first member, the graphical user interface configured for the first member to include an indication requesting, from the first member, an endorsement of the second member for the particular skill, the graphical user interface including a first selectable control to endorse the second member for the particular skill and at least a second selectable control to rate a quantified proficiency of the second member in the skill, the endorsement indicating that the first member thinks that the second member possesses the particular skill with a proficiency indicated by the rated quantified proficiency; and

updating the second member profile based upon a selection by the first member of the second selectable control.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising:

responsive to receiving the endorsement of the particular skill from the first member, increasing a calculated skill rank for the second member for the particular skill based upon the rated quantified proficiency.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein an amount with which the calculated skill rank for the second member is increased for the particular skill depends on a skill rank of the first member for the particular skill and the rated quantified proficiency.

4. The method of claim 3, comprising:

determining that the first member, based upon the first member profile and the second member profile, is likely to have personal knowledge of the skill of the second member; and

in response, increasing the amount with which the calculated skill rank for the second member is increased for the particular skill.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein determining that the first member is likely to have personal knowledge of the skill of the second member comprises determining one or more of:

that the first member is a co-worker of the second member;

that the first member is a relative of the second member;

or that the first member frequently views a webpage displaying at least a portion of the second member profile.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving a search query, the search query requesting a list of members that work for a particular organization and that have endorsed other members who do not work for the particular organization for the particular skill; and

providing the list of members.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising:

notifying the second member that the first member has endorsed them.

8. A computing device comprising:

one or more hardware processors;

a memory comprising instructions, which when executed by the one or more hardware processors causes the one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising;

receiving an indication that a first user with a first member profile has visited a member profile page of a second user with a second member profile;

selecting at least one particular skill corresponding to the first member profile and the second member profile that is one of a predetermined number of highest ranked skills for both the first and second member, the highest ranked skills based upon the first and second member profiles;

presenting a graphical user interface to the first member, the graphical user interface configured for the first member to include an indication requesting, from the first member, an endorsement of the second member for the particular skill, the graphical user interface including a first selectable control to endorse the second member for the particular skill and at least a second selectable control to rate a quantified proficiency of the second member in the skill, the endorsement indicating that the first member thinks that the second member possesses the particular skill with a proficiency indicated by the rated quantified proficiency; and

updating the second member profile based upon a selection by the first member of the second selectable control.

9. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

responsive to receiving the endorsement of the particular skill from the first member, increasing a calculated skill rank for the second member for the particular skill based upon the rated quantified proficiency.

10. The computing device of claim 9, wherein an amount with which the calculated skill rank for the second member is increased for the particular skill depends on a skill rank of the first member for the particular skill and the rated quantified proficiency.

11. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that the first member, based upon the first member profile and the second member profile, is likely to have personal knowledge of the skill of the second member; and

in response, increasing the amount with which the calculated skill rank for the second member is increased for the particular skill.

12. The computing device of claim 11, wherein the operations of determining that the first member is likely to have personal knowledge of the skill of the second member comprises determining one or more of:

that the first member is a co-worker of the second member;

that the first member is a relative of the second member; and

that the first member frequently views a webpage displaying at least a portion of the second member profile.

13. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a search query, the search query requesting a list of members that work for a particular organization and that have endorsed other members who do not work for the particular organization for the particular skill; and

providing the list of members.

14. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the operations comprise notifying the second member that the first member has endorsed them.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a machine causes the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving an indication that a first user with a first member profile has visited a member profile page of a second user with a second member profile;

selecting at least one particular skill corresponding to the first member profile and the second member profile that is one of a predetermined number of highest ranked skills for both the first and second member, the highest ranked skills based upon the first and second member profiles;

presenting a graphical user interface to the first member, the graphical user interface configured for the first member to include an indication requesting, from the first member, an endorsement of the second member for the particular skill, the graphical user interface including a first selectable control to endorse the second member for the particular skill and at least a second selectable control to rate a quantified proficiency of the second member in the skill, the endorsement indicating that the first member thinks that the second member possesses the particular skill with a proficiency indicated by the rated quantified proficiency; and

updating the second member profile based upon a selection by the first member of the second selectable control.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

responsive to receiving the endorsement of the particular skill from the first member, increasing a calculated skill rank for the second member for the particular skill based upon the rated quantified proficiency.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 16, wherein an amount with which the calculated skill rank for the second member is increased for the particular skill depends on a skill rank of the first member for the particular skill and the rated quantified proficiency.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that the first member, based upon the first member profile and the second member profile, is likely to have personal knowledge of the skill of the second member; and

in response, increasing the amount with which the calculated skill rank for the second member is increased for the particular skill.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the quantified proficiency is a numeric proficiency.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the operations of determining that the first member is likely to have personal knowledge of the skill of the second member comprises determining one or more of:

that the first member is a co-worker of the second member;

that the first member is a relative of the second member;

or that the first member frequently views a webpage displaying at least a portion of the second member profile.

21. The machine-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a search query, the search query requesting a list of members that work for a particular organization and that have endorsed other members who do not work for the particular organization for the particular skill; and

providing the list of members.