Patent ID: 9196008
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G06N,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: accessing information about an inviting user of a social networking system; selecting an event associated with the inviting user by the social networking system; retrieving information about the selected event; accessing information about social networking system users connected to the inviting user; selecting a set of candidate users from the social networking system users who are connected to the inviting user; predicting, by a processor, for each of the candidate users, whether a suggestion to the inviting user to invite the candidate user to the event would be acted upon by the inviting user and would lead to the candidate user joining the event; selecting one or more candidate users from the set based on the predicting; and sending by the processor a suggestion to the inviting user to send an invitation for the event to the selected one or more candidate users.