Graphical user interfaces with criteria based entity ranking

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10600029-B2
Application number	US-201615339541-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 31, 2016
Priority date	Oct 31, 2016
Publication date	Mar 24, 2020
Grant date	Mar 24, 2020

Abstract

Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine readable mediums for calculating an entity potential score for an entity that meets a defined entity selection criteria. The entity potential score quantifies an estimated likelihood that the entity will be successful in a predetermined timeframe by meeting predefined entity success criteria. Information on the entity may be determined (e.g., employee information, industry, financial information), various component subscores may be calculated and an entity potential score may be calculated for the entity. This entity potential score may be presented to one or more members of the network accessible computer-based service. For example, the entity potential score may be displayed along with a web-page describing the entity. The entity potential score may be searchable such that a user may specify a maximum, minimum, or range of entity potential scores as a search criteria for a search for entities.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for providing, using a network accessible computer-based service, Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that include a visual indication of a first entity's potential, the method comprising:
at the network accessible computer-based service, using a processor:
training a model using a machine-learning algorithm using a training data set comprising employee prestige scores for a plurality of entities not including the first entity and labeled with a degree of success of the plurality of entities;
accessing member profiles of a set of one or more members of the computer-based service, each member of the set of one or more members indicating in their respective member profiles that they work for the first entity;
calculating an employee prestige score for each respective member in the set based upon an educational institution attended by the respective member and past work experience attained by the respective member, the educational institution and past work experience determined based upon a respective member profile of the respective member;
calculating an entity potential score for the first entity using the employee prestige scores of the employees in the set as input to the trained model, the entity potential score quantifying a predicted likelihood that the first entity meets predetermined entity successfulness criteria;
receiving, through a GUI, a search request, the search request including a request for entities meeting an entity potential score criterion;
determining that the entity potential score of the first entity meets the entity potential score criterion;
providing the entity as part of a GUI displaying entities matching the entity potential score criterion; and
wherein calculating the employee prestige score for each respective member in the set based upon the educational institution attended by the respective member and the past work experience attained by the respective member comprises, for each respective member in the set:
determining an educational prestige score based upon point values specified for one or more educational institutions that the respective member reports having attended;
determining a previous work experience prestige score as the maximum work experience prestige score over a plurality of entities that the respective member has worked for; and
determining the employee prestige score for the respective member based upon the educational prestige score and the previous work experience prestige score.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of one or more members of the network accessible computer-based service includes all members of the network accessible computer-based service that indicate in their respective member profiles that they work for the fit entity.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the educational prestige score based upon point values specified for one or more educational institutions that the respective member reports having attended comprises:
determining the educational prestige score for the respective member as the maximum educational prestige score over a plurality of educational institutions that the respective member has attended.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein calculating the entity potential score for the first entity using the employee prestige scores of the employees in the set as input to the trained model comprises:
using an average of the employee prestige scores of all the employees in the set as input to the trained model.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein calculating the entity potential score for the first entity using the employee scores of the employees in the set as input to the trained model comprises:
utilizing a funding source that is funding the entity as input to the model.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined entity successfulness criteria comprises growth in at least one of: revenue, profits, or number of employees.

7. A non-transitory machine-readable medium for providing, using a network accessible computer-based service, Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that include a visual indication of a first entity's potential, the machine-readable medium comprising instructions, which when performed by a machine cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
at the network accessible computer-based service, using a processor:
training a model using a machine-learning algorithm using a training data set comprising employee prestige scores for a plurality of entities not including the first entity and labeled with a degree of success of the plurality of entities;
accessing member profiles of a set of one or more members of the computer-based service, each member of the set of one or more members indicating in their respective member profiles that they work for the first entity;
calculating an employee prestige score for each respective member in the set based upon an educational institution attended by the respective member and past work experience attained by the respective member, the educational institution and past work experience determined based upon a respective member profile of the respective member;
calculating an entity potential score for the first entity using the employee prestige scores of the employees in the set as input to the trained model, the entity potential score quantifying a predicted likelihood that the first entity meets predetermined entity successfulness criteria;
receiving, through a GUI, a search request, the search request including a request for entities meeting an entity potential score criterion;
determining that the entity potential score of the first entity meets the entity potential score criterion;
providing the entity as part of a GUI displaying entities matching the entity potential score criterion; and
wherein calculating the employee prestige score for each respective member in the set based upon the educational institution attended by the respective member and the past work experience attained by the respective member comprises, for each respective member in the set:
determining an educational prestige score based upon point values specified for one or more educational institutions that the respective member reports having attended;
determining a previous work experience prestige score as the maximum work experience prestige score over a plurality of entities that the respective member has worked for; and
determining the employee prestige score for the respective member based upon the educational prestige score and the previous work experience prestige score.

8. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the set of one or more members of the network accessible computer-based service includes all members of the network accessible computer-based service that indicate in their respective member profiles that they work for the first entity.

9. The machine-readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the operations of determining the educational prestige score based upon point values specified for one or more educational institutions that the respective member reports having attended comprises:
determining the educational prestige score for the first member as the maximum educational prestige score over a plurality of educational institutions that the respective member has attended.

10. A system comprising:
a processor;
a memory communicatively coupled with the processor and comprising instructions, which when performed by the processor cause the system to perform operations comprising:
training a model using a machine-learning algorithm using a training data set comprising employee prestige scores for a plurality of entities not including a first entity and labeled with a degree of success of the plurality of e

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Wang Chen
• Zhang Luwei
• Wang Weizhen

Classifications

• G06Q10/1053 Primary

  Employment or hiring · CPC title