CONTEXTUAL RECOMMENDATION OF CONNECTED MEMBER PROFILES
A member recommendation system is provided with an on-line social network system. The member recommendation system detects that an electronic presentation is being presented on a display device of a user, determines skills that are being discussed in the electronic presentation, and determines member profiles representing those connections of a user that have been identified as associated with one or more skills discussed in the electronic presentation. References to one or more of the determined member profiles are recommended to the user of the electronic presentation.
1 . A computer implemented method comprising:
detecting an editing session with respect to an electronic presentation, the electronic presentation associated with a set of skills;
determining that the editing session is associated with a user represented by a member profile in the on-line social network system;
using at least one processor, generating a candidate set of user connections, each item in the set of user connections comprising a reference to a profile in the on-line social network system that has a link indicating connectedness with the member profile and also has a skill from the set of skills listed in a skills section of the associated profile;
generating respective relevance values for items in the candidate set of user connections using respective significance scores assigned to skills from the set of skills;
selecting a presentation set of connections from the candidate set of user connections based on the respective relevance values; and
causing presentation, on a display device, of a reference to an item from the presentation set of connections.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating of a relevance value from the respective relevance values with respect to a profile from the candidate set of user connections comprises determining that the profile and the member profile are associated with a common group in the on-line social network system.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating of a relevance value from the respective relevance values with respect to a profile from the candidate set of user connections comprises determining a number of electronic communications between the profile and the member profile in the on-line social network system.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the generating of a relevance value from the respective relevance values with respect to a profile from the candidate set of user connections comprises determining one or more views in the on-line social network system, the one or more views associated with an electronic document and also with the profile and the member profile.
5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the member profile representing the user the on-line social network system is associated with a set of user skills, the generating of the presentation set of connections comprises:
generating a personalized set of skills that includes those entries from the set of skills that are omitted from the set of user skills; and
using the personalized set of skills to generate the candidate set of user connections.
6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein each skill from the set of user skills is assigned a respective significance score, the generating of the presentation set of connections comprises:
generating a personalized importance score for each skill in the set of skills using the respective significance scores; and
generating the respective relevance values for items in the candidate set of employees using the respective significance scores.
7 . The method of claim 1 , comprising generating additional user interface, the additional user interface comprising an actionable control associated with the reference to activate a preview of an associated employee profile in the on-line social network system.
8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of skills is associated with a section from a plurality of sections in the electronic presentation.
9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of skills is associated with the entire electronic presentation.
10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the electronic presentation is an electronic slide show.
11 . A computer-implemented system comprising:
a session detector, implemented using at least one processor, to detect an editing session with respect to an electronic presentation, the electronic presentation associated with a set of skills, the editing session associated with a user represented by a member profile in the on-line social network system;
a connections set generator, implemented using at least one processor, to generate a candidate set of user connections, each item in the set of user connections comprising a reference to a profile in the on-line social network system that has a link indicating connectedness with the member profile and also has a skill from the set of skills listed in a skills section of the associated profile;
a relevance values generator, implemented using at least one processor, to generate respective relevance values for items in the candidate set of user connections using respective significance scores assigned to skills from the set of skills;
a presentation set selector, implemented using at least one processor, to select a presentation set of connections from the candidate set of user connections based on the respective relevance values; and
a presentation generator, implemented using at least one processor, to cause presentation, on a display device, of a reference to an item from the presentation set of connections.
12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the relevance values generator is to determine that the profile and the member profile are associated with a common group in the on-line social network system.
13 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the relevance values generator is to determine a number of electronic communications between the profile and the member profile in the on-line social network system.
14 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the relevance values generator is to determine one or more views in the on-line social network system, the one or more views associated with an electronic document and also with the profile and the member profile.
15 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the member profile representing the user the on-line social network system is associated with a set of user skills, the presentation set generator is to:
generate a personalized set of skills that includes those entries from the set of skills that are omitted from the set of user skills; and
use the personalized set of skills to generate the candidate set of user connections.
16 . The system of claim 11 , wherein each skill from the set of user skills is assigned a respective significance score, the presentation set generator is to:
generate a personalized importance score for each skill in the set of skills using the respective significance scores; and
generate the respective relevance values for items in the candidate set of employees using the respective significance scores.
17 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the presentation generator is to generate additional user interface, the additional user interface comprising an actionable control associated with the reference to activate a preview of an associated employee profile in the on-line social network system.
18 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the set of skills is associated with a section from a plurality of sections in the electronic presentation.
19 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the set of skills is associated with the entire electronic presentation.
20 . A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium having instruction data executable by a machine to cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
detecting an editing session with respect to an electronic presentation, the electronic presentation associated with a set of skills;
determining that the editing session is associated with a user represented by a member profile in the on-line social network system;
generating a candidate set of user connections, each item in the set of user connections comprising a reference to a profile in the on-line social network system that has a link indicating connectedness with the member profile and also has a skill from the set of skills listed in a skills section of the associated profile;
generating respective relevance values for items in the candidate set of user connections using respective significance scores assigned to skills from the set of skills;
selecting a presentation set of connections from the candidate set of user connections based on the respective relevance values; and
causing presentation, on a display device, of a reference to an item from the presentation set of connections.