US 8,943,047 B1Granted

Data aggregation for qualifying a partner candidate

AssigneeIntuit Inc.

InventorsAliza Duenas Carpio, Alan F. Buhler, Joseph Elwell

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Abstract

A method to qualify a partner candidate, including accessing a social network to retrieve social network data about the partner candidate; parsing the social network data to extract a social network data item corresponding to a characteristics category relating to a characteristic of the partner candidate; determining per category weighting factors corresponding to characteristics categories and representing a focus of the social network; comparing, using a keyword library comprising pre-determined keywords and pre-determined keyword similarity measures, the social network data item and a self-described attribute of the partner candidate to generate a characteristics category score, wherein a range of the characteristics category score is determined by a corresponding per category weighting factor; and assigning the characteristics category score to the self-described attribute, wherein the characteristics category score represents a validity measure of the self-described attribute based on the social network data.

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Dependent claims

A method to qualify a partner candidate, comprising:

detecting, by a partner seeking website and independent of detecting any relationship change of any user of the partner seeking website, that a user is browsing a profile of the partner candidate on a webpage of the partner seeking website, wherein the partner seeking website is configured to allow the user to search a plurality of human partners and to seek a partner relationship from the plurality of human partners, wherein the plurality of human partners comprise the partner candidate;
retrieving, in response to the indication and based on a characteristics category of a plurality of characteristics categories, a self-described attribute of the partner candidate from the profile of the partner candidate, wherein each of plurality of characteristics categories relates to a characteristic of the partner candidate;
accessing a first social network to retrieve one or more comments posted by social network friends of the partner candidate regarding the partner candidate, wherein the first social network is used by the partner candidate to exchange social interaction messages with the social network friends of the partner candidate;
parsing, by a processor of a computer system, the one or more comments to extract a first social network data item corresponding to the characteristics category;
determining, by the processor, a first plurality of per category weighting factors corresponding to the plurality of characteristics categories and representing a first focus of the first social network;
comparing, using a keyword library comprising pre-determined keywords and pre-determined keyword similarity measures, the first social network data item and the self-described attribute to generate a first characteristics category score, wherein a range of the first characteristics category score is determined by one of the first plurality of per category weighting factors corresponding to the characteristics category;
assigning, by the processor, the first characteristics category score to the self-described attribute, wherein the first characteristics category score represents a first validity measure of the self-described attribute based on the first social network data;
and
presenting, on the webpage of the partner seeking website and in response to the user browsing the profile of the partner candidate, the first characteristics category score in association with the self-described attribute to the user,
wherein the first characteristics category score is superimposed over the profile displayed on the webpage, and
wherein the user determines, based on at least the first characteristics category score, whether the partner candidate is suitable for entering into a partner relationship.

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A system to qualify a partner candidate, comprising:

a hardware processor;
an input module executing on the hardware processor and configured to:
detect, by a partner seeking website and independent of detecting any relationship change of any user of the partner seeking website, that a user is browsing a profile of the partner candidate on a webpage of the partner seeking website, wherein the partner seeking website is configured to allow the user to search a plurality of human partners and to seek a partner relationship from the plurality of human partners, wherein the plurality of human partners comprise the partner candidate;
retrieve, in response to the indication and based on a characteristics category of a plurality of characteristics categories, a self-described attribute of the partner candidate from the profile of the partner candidate, wherein each of plurality of characteristics categories relates to a characteristic of the partner candidate;
a social network interface module executing on the hardware processor and configured to access a first social network to retrieve one or more comments posted by social network friends of the partner candidate regarding the partner candidate, wherein the first social network is used by the partner candidate to exchange social interaction messages with the social network friends of the partner candidate;
a reference data analyzer executing on the hardware processor, coupled to the social network interface, and configured to:
parse the one or more comments to extract a first social network data item corresponding to the characteristics category;
and
determine a first plurality of per category weighting factors corresponding to the plurality of characteristics categories and representing a first focus of the first social network;
and
a validation module executing on the hardware processor, coupled to the reference data analyzer, and configured to:
compare, using a keyword library comprising pre-determined keywords and pre-determined keyword similarity measures, the first social network data item and the self-described attribute to generate a first characteristics category score,
wherein a range of the first characteristics category score is determined by one of the first plurality of per category weighting factors corresponding to the characteristics category;
assign the first characteristics category score to the self-described attribute, wherein the first characteristics category score represents a first validity measure of the self-described attribute based on the first social network data;
and
present, on the webpage of the partner seeking website and in response to the user browsing the profile of the partner candidate, the first characteristics category score in association with the self-described attribute to the user,
wherein the first characteristics category score is superimposed over the profile displayed on the webpage, and
wherein the user determines, based on at least the first characteristics category score,
whether the partner candidate is suitable for entering into a partner relationship.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions to qualify a partner candidate, the instructions when executed by a computer comprising functionality to:

detecting, by a partner seeking website and independent of detecting any relationship change of any user of the partner seeking website, that a user is browsing a profile of the partner candidate on a webpage of the partner seeking website, wherein the partner seeking website is configured to allow the user to search a plurality of human partners and to seek a partner relationship from the plurality of human partners, wherein the plurality of human partners comprise the partner candidate;
retrieve, in response to the indication and based on a characteristics category of a plurality of characteristics categories, a self-described attribute of the partner candidate from the profile of the partner candidate, wherein each of plurality of characteristics categories relates to a characteristic of the partner candidate;
access a first social network to retrieve one or more comments posted by social network friends of the partner candidate regarding the partner candidate, wherein the first social network is used by the partner candidate to exchange social interaction messages with the social network friends of the partner candidate;
parse the one or more comments to extract a first social network data item corresponding to the characteristics category;
determine a first plurality of per category weighting factors corresponding to the plurality of characteristics categories and representing a first focus of the first social network;
compare, using a keyword library comprising pre-determined keywords and pre-determined keyword similarity measures, the first social network data item and the self-described attribute to generate a first characteristics category score,
wherein a range of the first characteristics category score is determined by one of the first plurality of per category weighting factors corresponding to the characteristics category;
assign the first characteristics category score to the self-described attribute, wherein the first characteristics category score represents a first validity measure of the self-described attribute based on the first social network data;
and
present, on the webpage of the partner seeking website and in response to the user browsing the profile of the partner candidate, the first characteristics category score in association with the self-described attribute to the user,
wherein the first characteristics category score is superimposed over the profile displayed on the webpage, and
wherein the user determines, based on at least the first characteristics category score, whether the partner candidate is suitable for entering into a partner relationship.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.