Patent ID: 8595167

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of generating a model for predicting a relationship within a social network, the method comprising: retrieving data from a database, wherein the database includes data of users that are connected in the social network, a list of each user's connections, each user's activities on the social network and each user's interests; inputting a first set of the data into a learning network; training the learning network using the first set of the data; determining whether the learning network is properly trained based on validating accuracy of the learning network using a second set of the data; in response to determining that the learning network is not properly trained, adding a third set of the data to the learning network and training the learning network using the first set and the third set of the data; in response to determining that the learning network is properly trained, inputting into the learning network data of users that are unconnected in the social network and predicting a likelihood of a successful connection between the unconnected users; and sending a suggestion to at least two of the unconnected users.