EVALUATING SERVICE PROVIDERS USING A SOCIAL NETWORK

摘要

A method and system are provided for analyzing data in an online professional social network to identify, score, and match users with regard to providing professional services. A graph structure provides an efficient structure for accessing and processing data about service providers in order to create a service marketplace.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for automating an online services marketplace, the method comprising:
receiving a plurality of service requests from a plurality of first users, each request indicating a service to be provided and criteria related to the service; for each request,
identifying, from an index, a plurality of second users that provide the service of that request; retrieving profile data associated with the plurality of second users; and
automatically matching at least one of the second users to that request based on a comparison of features in the profile data of second users and features in the criteria.