SUGGESTING CANDIDATE PROFILES SIMILAR TO A REFERENCE PROFILE

摘要

Techniques for identifying and presenting member profiles similar to a source member profile are described. With some embodiments, a general recommendation engine is used to extract features from member profiles, and then store the extracted features, including any computed, derived or retrieved profile features, in an enhanced member profile. In real-time, the general recommendation engine processes client requests to identify member profiles similar to a source member profile by comparing select profile features stored in the enhanced member profile with corresponding profile features of the source member profile, where the comparison results in several similarity sub-scores that are then combined in accordance with directives set forth in a configuration file. Finally, the member profiles with the highest similarity scores corresponding with the user-selected member profile are selected, and in some instances, presented to a user.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
detecting, by one or more processors, a request for suggestion of one or more candidate entities based on a reference entity represented in the social database, the reference entity being represented by a reference profile in the social database, candidate profiles in the social database each representing a different candidate entity; generating, by the one or more processors, scores that each correspond to a different one of the candidate profiles, the generating including, for each score:
accessing parts of a different candidate profile among the candidate profiles for comparison to corresponding parts of the reference profile; anddetermining sub-scores that each quantify similarity of a different part of the candidate profile to a corresponding part of the reference profile, the generating of the score for the candidate profile being based on the determined sub-scores; and causing, by the one or more processors, display of one or more profile identifiers that collectively reference a subset of the candidate profiles, the displayed profile identifiers being selected based on comparisons of the generated scores of candidate profiles in the subset to an extremum score among the generated scores.