| 摘要 |
Some embodiments of the invention provide novel methods for capturing the profiles of employment candidates. To start the process for capturing such profiles, some embodiments provide a thin browser agent that can be executed within a browser when the browser is displaying an employment candidates profile on a social media webpage. After selection of the browser agent (e.g., a bookmarklet or a browser extension), the browser agent in some embodiments sends to a set of servers the URL (uniform resource locator) of the webpage that the browser is displaying when the agent is selected. The server set can include one server or more than one server. The server set determines whether the URL is part of a set of one or more social media communities from which the server set can capture employment candidate profiles. When the server set cannot identify a social media community for the webpage at issue, the server set in some embodiments returns to the browser agent a message to indicate that it cannot capture a profile from this page. On the other hand, when the server set matches the URL to a social media community, the server set in some embodiments informs the browser agent to send a copy of the webpage to the server set. In other embodiments, the server set does not immediately ask the browser agent to send a copy of the webpage after matching the URL to a social media community. For instance, even after the server set matches the URL to a social media community, the server set will not request the profile webpage until the user that is viewing the webpage requests the candidate profile to be captured. |
