Method and system to determine a member profile associated with a reference in a publication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9438689-B2
Application number	US-201414494271-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2014
Priority date	Jul 18, 2013
Publication date	Sep 6, 2016
Grant date	Sep 6, 2016

Abstract

Method and system are provided to determine a member profile associated with a reference to a person in a publication and may be used beneficially to identify members of a social network in news articles. The system may be configured to detect a publication that was shared by a member of an on-line social networking system, determine that the publication includes a name entity, and identify a member profile in the on-line social networking system that represents a member referenced by the name entity. The process of identifying a member profile in the on-line social networking system that represents a member referenced by the name entity may include building a list of candidate profiles from the member profiles of the on-line social networking system and selecting a matching profile from the candidate profiles, utilizing one or more disambiguation techniques.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
detecting a publication that was shared by a member of an on-line social networking system;
determining that the publication includes a name entity, the name entity comprising a string of characters;
selecting one or more candidate profiles from a plurality of member profiles in the on-line social networking system, based on the name entity;
selecting a matching profile from the candidate profiles, utilizing one or more disambiguation techniques, the one or more disambiguation techniques comprising utilizing data from a candidate profile from the one or more candidate profiles;
identifying, using at least one processor, the matching profile from the candidate profiles as a member profile in the on-line social networking system that represents a member referenced by the name entity; and
delivering a notification of the publication to members represented by the respective one or more profiles of connections of the candidate profile.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the utilizing of the one or more disambiguation techniques comprises utilizing data from one or more profiles of connections of the candidate profile.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more disambiguation techniques comprises determining whether a candidate profile from the one or more candidate profiles is connected to a further member profile that is identified by name in the publication, the further member profile being from the member profiles in the on-line social networking system.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more disambiguation techniques comprises determining a rank of the candidate profile, based on connections of a candidate profile from the one or more candidate profiles in the on-line social networking system.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more disambiguation techniques comprises examining data from a candidate profile that is indicative of an employer of a member represented by the candidate profile.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more disambiguation techniques comprises utilizing data about an employer listed in a candidate profile from the one or more candidate profiles.

7. The method of claim 1 , comprising determining a rank of the name entity corresponding to the member of the on-line social networking system with respect to other name entities corresponding to other members of the on-line social networking system referenced in the publication, the rank being with respect to the publication.

8. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
detecting one or more further publications similar to the publication;
clustering the one or more further publications with the publication; and
selecting an article from the clustered publications for delivery to one or more members of the on-line social networking system.

9. The method of claim 1 comprising delivering a notification of the publication to connections of the member profile.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the delivering is utilizing one or more of a news feed in the on-line social networking system, email, or a push notification on mobile devices associated with respective connections of the member profile.

11. A computer-implemented system comprising:
a share event detector, implemented using at least one processor, to detect a publication that was shared by a member of an on-line social networking system;
a name phrase detector, implemented using at least one processor, to determine that the publication includes a name entity, the name entity comprising a string of characters;
a candidate list generator, implemented using at least one processor, to select one or more candidate profiles from a plurality of member profiles in the on-line social networking system, based on the name entity; and
a disambiguation module, implemented using at least one processor, to select a matching profile from the candidate profiles, utilizing one or more disambiguation techniques, the one or more disambiguation techniques comprising utilizing data from a candidate profile from the one or more candidate profiles;
a name recognition module, implemented using at least one processor, to identify the matching profile from the candidate profiles as a member profile in the on-line social networking system that represents a member referenced by the name entity; and
a notification delivery module, implemented using at least one processor, to deliver a notification of the publication to members represented by the respective one or more profiles of connections of the candidate profile.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the disambiguation module is to utilize data from one or more profiles of connections of the candidate profile.

13. The system of claim a wherein the one or more disambiguation techniques comprises determining whether a candidate profile from the one or more candidate profiles is connected to a further member profile that is identified by name in the publication, the further member profile being from the member profiles in the on-line social networking system.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the one or more disambiguation techniques comprises determining, based on connections of the candidate profile in the on-line social networking system, a rank of a candidate profile from the candidate profiles.

15. The system of claim 12 , wherein the one or more disambiguation techniques comprises examining data from a candidate profile that is indicative of an employer of a member represented by the candidate profile.

16. The system of claim a wherein the one or more disambiguation techniques comprises utilizing data about an employer listed in a candidate profile from the one or more candidate profiles.

17. The system of claim 11 , comprising a ranking module to determine, using the at least one processor, a rank of the name entity corresponding to the member of the on-line social networking system with respect to other name entities corresponding to other members of the on-line social networking system referenced in the publication, the rank being with respect to the publication.

18. The system of claim 11 , comprising a publication clustering module to detect, using the at least one processor, one or more further publications similar to the publication; cluster the one or more further publications with the publication, and to select an article from the clustered publications for delivery to one or more members of the on-line social networking system.

19. The system of claim 11 comprising a notification delivery module to deliver, using the at least one processor, a notification of the publication to connections of the member profile.

20. A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium having instruction data to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
detecting a publication that was shared by a member of an on-line social networking system;
determining that the publication includes a name entity, the name entity comprising a string of characters;
selecting one or more candidate profiles from a plurality of member profiles in the on-line social networking system, based on the name entity;
selecting a matching profile from the candidate profiles, utilizing one or more disambiguation techniques, the one or more disambiguation techniques comprising utilizing data from a candidate profile from the one or more candidate profiles;
identifying, using at least one processor, the matching profile from the candidate profiles as a member profile in the on-line social networking system

Assignees

• Linkedin Corp

Inventors

• Iyer Anand R
• Lee Hyun Chul
• Roslansky Ryan
• Xu Liqin
• Zhou Runfang

Classifications

• G06Q10/40 Primary

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06Q10/10

  Office automation; Time management · CPC title

• G06F16/95

  Retrieval from the web · CPC title

• H04L67/306 Primary

  User profiles · CPC title

• G06Q50/01

  Physics · mapped topic