Determining similarities among industries to enhance job searching

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10474725
APP PUB NO 20180173803A1
SERIAL NO

15379656

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Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for expanding a job search that includes an industry by adding other similar industries. A method accesses, by a social networking server, a plurality of job applications, with each job application being submitted by a member for a job in a company, the member and the job having a respective industry from a plurality of industries. Semantic analysis of the job applications is performed by a machine-learning program to identify similarity coefficients among the plurality of industries. A job search query is received from a first member, the job search query including a query industry, and the job search query is expanded with industries that are similar to the query industry. The social networking server executes the expanded job search query to generate a plurality of job results. Presentation is provided on a display of one or more of the top job results.

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  • MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Arya, Dhruv Sunnyvale, US 33 244
Grover, Aman Sunnyvale, US 19 109
McManus, Kimberly San Francisco, US 2 16
Venkataraman, Ganesh San Jose, US 96 2026
Zhang, Liang Fremont, US 627 3134

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