SUGGESTED OUT OF NETWORK COMMUNICATION RECIPIENTS

摘要

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems and machine readable medium for recommending an out-of-network communication by determining a set of potential recommended members of a social networking service based upon one or more recommendation criteria. In some examples the recommendation criteria may include: a profile similarity to a previous target of an out-of-network communication, a degree of correspondence between an interest and intent of the sending member, and a likelihood of response.

主权项

1. A method for recommending an out-of-network communication recipient, the method comprising:
determining a set of potential recommended members of a social networking service; determining for each particular member in the set of potential recommended members:
a profile similarity score, the profile similarity score indicating a measure of how similar the particular member is to a previous target member of an out-of-network communication of a sending member; anda recommendation criteria score, the recommendation criteria score being a measure of how closely the particular member matches a recommendation criteria; determining a set of recommended members from the set of potential recommended members based upon the profile similarity scores and the recommendation criteria scores of the members in the set of potential recommended members; presenting the set of recommended members to the sending member; and sending an out-of-network communication to a selected member of the set of recommended member from the sending member.