Patent ID: 9600583
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Claim:
1. A method comprising, by one or more processors associated with one or more computing devices of an online social network: receiving, at an application server of the online social network from a client system of a first user of the online social network, a request comprising search criteria specifying one or more expressed interests of the first user; normalizing, by the application server, the one or more expressed interests of the first user received from the client device of the first user based on an interest classification process to obtain one or more normalized interests of the first user; selecting, by the application server, one or more second users of the online social network who meet the search criteria, the selecting of each second user being based on: sending, to the client system for display to the first user responsive to the request, a search results interface comprising information retrieved from the member database associated with the one or more second users.