He Liu

US Patent:

20180300755, Oct 18, 2018

Filed:

Apr 13, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/487322

Inventors:

- Sunnyvale CA, US
He Liu - San Francisco CA, US
Yue Li - Fremont CA, US
Zhaoying Han - Mountain View CA, US

Assignee:

LinkedIn Corporation - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

G06Q 30/02

Abstract:

The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a set of features associated with a customer, wherein the set of features includes profile data from an online professional network and one or more standardized features related to a role of the customer. Next, the system applies a set of whitelists and a set of blacklists to the features to identify a market segment for the customer. The system then uses the market segment to generate output for use in targeting the customer with an educational technology product.