LinkedIn Patent Applications

FACT CHECKING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE INCLUDING FACT CHECKING ICONS

Granted: June 12, 2014
Application Number: 20140164994
A fact checking system is able to verify the correctness of information and/or characterize information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The fact checking system automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information and indicates a status of the information. The fact checking system is able to incorporate a graphical user interface with fact checking icons to indicate fact checking results.

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS

Granted: June 12, 2014
Application Number: 20140164528
Example communication systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method receives a message from a message server. The method identifies constituent data contained in the message and accesses supplemental information associated with the message based on the constituent data. The message is modified to include at least one of a portion of the supplemental information and a reference to the supplemental information. The modified message is then communicated to a client…

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INDEXING ELECTRONIC CONTENT

Granted: June 5, 2014
Application Number: 20140156668
Apparatus and method are provided for indexing electronic content to be served to users that operate mobile and/or stationary communications and computing devices. An index is composed of multiple slices, with each slice capable of storing multiple entries and each entry representing one content item. A content item's index entry is populated with integer values representing attribute/value pairs of a target audience of the content item. A query or request to identify content items for…

PERSONALIZED ACCOUNT MIGRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

Granted: May 29, 2014
Application Number: 20140149551
A method for migrating information, and a migrator for migrating information, are disclosed. The method may include extracting organizational information from at least two service providers, accessing a first at least one of the at least two service providers upon selection of a migration selection interface by the user, receiving of a first plurality of information related to the user from one of the service providers, accessing a second at least one of the at least two service…

UNIFIED SOCIAL CONTENT PLATFORM

Granted: May 29, 2014
Application Number: 20140149448
A system can optionally include a social network database configured to store social network information records related to a user of the social network, wherein the social network database is configured to classify an individual information record according to the user of the social network and at least one of an application that generated the individual information record and an object of the individual information record. The system can further include a processor configured to…

COMBINED SPONSORED AND UNSPONSORED CONTENT GROUP

Granted: May 29, 2014
Application Number: 20140149206
A system may include a unified content platform configured to obtain an unsponsored content group from unsponsored content group sources, each unsponsored content group having at least one unsponsored content element, wherein the unsponsored content groups are obtained based on a relevance of at least some unsponsored content elements to a characteristic of a user. The system may further include a sponsored content platform configured to generate a master content group based on the…

USER PROFILE IMPROVEMENT SYSTEM

Granted: May 15, 2014
Application Number: 20140136933
A method and a system for superimposing a prompt over a second user profile page being displayed on a client device, the prompt inviting a first user to update a first user profile page associated with the first user, based on the second user profile page being displayed.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOCUMENT CONVERSION

Granted: April 17, 2014
Application Number: 20140108897
Method and apparatus for converting a document from a fixed-layout format (e.g., Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF) into a non-fixed layout format (e.g., HTML) portable to different platforms (e.g., desktop computers, tablet computer, smart phones) operating different operating systems (e.g., Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X) and different web browsers (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla FireFox). In one stream, fonts are identified, extracted, and processed to enhance…

DYNAMIC SUBMISSION AND PREFERENCE INDICATOR

Granted: April 3, 2014
Application Number: 20140095489
Indicating preference for a content contribution is disclosed. A request for information associated with the content contribution is received from a first entity. The status of the content contribution is determined. A response is provided to the first entity. Determining the status of the content contribution includes determining whether a submission of the content contribution was previously received.

AUDIENCE PLATFORM

Granted: April 3, 2014
Application Number: 20140096005
An audience platform is disclosed. In a first example case, a first question is received. A preference event associated with the first question is received. A score is determined for the first question based at least in part on the preference. In a second example case, indications of a first and second potential interviewee are received. Preference events associated with the first and second potential interviewees are received. Scores are determined for the first and second potential…

AUDIENCE PLATFORM

Granted: April 3, 2014
Application Number: 20140095271
An audience platform is disclosed. In a first example case, a first question is received. A preference event associated with the first question is received. A score is determined for the first question based at least in part on the preference. In a second example case, indications of a first and second potential interviewee are received. Preference events associated with the first and second potential interviewees are received. Scores are determined for the first and second potential…

SKILL EXTRACTION SYSTEM

Granted: March 20, 2014
Application Number: 20140081928
In an example, disclosed is a machine automated method of identifying a set of skills. In some examples, the method includes extracting a plurality of skill seed phrases from a plurality of member profiles of a social networking site, creating a plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases by disambiguating the plurality of skill seed phrases using one or more computer processors, and de-duplicating the plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases to create a plurality of de-duplicated…

FILTERING RECORDED INTERACTIONS BY AGE

Granted: March 6, 2014
Application Number: 20140068065
Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, a message including location information indicating a geographic location of a first user device is received from the first user device. Values representing logical connection strengths between the first user device and other user devices are calculated using the location information. A first device group is determined for the first user device based on the calculating of the values representing the…

PERSONALIZED ACCOUNT MIGRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

Granted: February 27, 2014
Application Number: 20140059175
A method for migrating information, and a migrator for migrating information, are disclosed. The method may include extracting organizational information from at least two service providers, accessing a first at least one of the at least two service providers upon selection of a migration selection interface by the user, receiving of a first plurality of information related to the user from one of the service providers, accessing a second at least one of the at least two service…

CONTENT VISUALIZATION

Granted: January 30, 2014
Application Number: 20140033063
Displaying a preference by a user of a content contribution is disclosed. A preference event by the user is detected. A plurality of detected events is stored. In response to a query from a client, at least a portion of the stored detected events is stored. At least a portion of the received events is displayed in an interface.

CONTENT SHARING VIA SOCIAL NETWORKING

Granted: January 30, 2014
Application Number: 20140032674
Example systems and methods of content sharing via social networking are presented. In one example, availability of a first user device to provide media content over a communication network is detected. A second user device is identified via an association of the first user device with the second user device that is specified in a social network. An acceptance by the second user device to receive the media content from the first user device is determined. In response to the acceptance,…

COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION BASED ON PROFILE UPDATE

Granted: December 5, 2013
Application Number: 20130325945
A notification machine may receive an update to a user profile that describes a user and indicates a group of users as being socially connected to the user by a social network. The update may reference a community (e.g., an employer or a club) of the user. The user profile may be modified by including a reference to the community within the user profile. The notification machine may identify a further user who is included in the community (e.g., employed by the employer, or part of the…

ZENO: BATCH-COMPUTED NEWS FEED UPDATES

Granted: November 28, 2013
Application Number: 20130318036
A system may receive, at least in part from an update database, a plurality of updates to a plurality of profiles that individually describe ones of a plurality of users of a social network. The system may process, using a batch processor, at least some of the plurality of updates to generate a consolidated update indicative of a status of at least some of the plurality of profiles. The system may transmit the consolidated update to the update database. The system may display the…

DETERMINING REPUTATIONS OF USERS BASED ON ENDORSEMENTS

Granted: October 31, 2013
Application Number: 20130290420
A method and system for evaluating the reputation of a member of a social networking system is disclosed. Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, one or more attributes associated with a social networking profile of a member of a social network are analyzed. Based on the analysis, a ranking, rating or score is assigned to a particular category of reputation. When requested, the ranking, rating or score is displayed to a user of the social network.

GENERATING NETWORK ACTIVITY INDICATORS FOR USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK

Granted: October 31, 2013
Application Number: 20130290448
A method and system for evaluating the reputation of a member of a social networking system is disclosed. Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, one or more attributes associated with a social networking profile of a member of a social network are analyzed. Based on the analysis, a ranking, rating or score is assigned to a particular category of reputation. When requested, the ranking, rating or score is displayed to a user of the social network.