Travel-related weighted cognitive personas and profiles

• US 10,192,164 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2015
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RealPage Incorporated
• Original Assignee: WayBlazer, Inc
• Inventors: Faith, John N., Kothe, Kyle W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hill, Stanley K
• Application Number:
  US14/731,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20150356440A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,334 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4208 being a system bus, e.g. VME bus, Futurebus, Multibus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24568 Data stream processing; Continuous queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2465 Query processing support for facilitating data mining operations in structured databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/287 Visualization; Browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9024 Graphs; Linked lists G06F16/9027 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/022 Knowledge engineering; Knowledge acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters

Abstract

A method, system and computer-usable medium for performing cognitive computing operations comprising receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources; processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching for incorporation into a cognitive graph; defining a travel-related cognitive persona within the cognitive graph, the travel-related cognitive persona corresponding to an archetype user model, the travel-related cognitive persona comprising a set of nodes in the cognitive graph, links among the set of nodes being weighted to provide a weighted cognitive graph; associating a user with the travel-related cognitive persona; and, performing a cognitive computing operation based upon the travel-related cognitive persona associated with the user.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor;

a data bus coupled to the processor; and

a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium being coupled to the data bus, the computer program code interacting with a plurality of computer operations and comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for;

receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources;

processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching for incorporation into a cognitive graph comprising a set of nodes and links between the nodes that represent travel-related knowledge by;

processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources to perform entity detection on the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, and

incorporating the enriched data into the cognitive graph by incorporating one or more entities determined from the entity detection into the cognitive graph by;

generating one or more sub-graphs comprising at least one node representing the one or more entities determined from the entity detection, and

incorporating the one or more sub-graphs into the cognitive graph so that the cognitive graph includes at least one node representing those one or more entitles and one or more links between the at least one node representing those one or more entitles and one or more of the other set of nodes of the cognitive graph;

defining a travel-related cognitive persona within the cognitive graph, the travel-related cognitive persona corresponds to an archetype user model and the travel-related cognitive persona comprises a sub-graph within the cognitive graph including a subset of the set of nodes in the cognitive graph and a subset of the links among the set of nodes, the subset of the links among the subset of nodes being weighted to provide a weighted sub-graph within the cognitive graph;

associating a user with the travel-related cognitive persona; and

generating a cognitive insight including data from a node of the cognitive graph associated with the user and the travel-related cognitive persona by traversing the cognitive graph based on a graph query and the travel-related cognitive persona associated with the user to determine the node of the cognitive graph including the data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the travel-related cognitive persona represents a set of attributes, each of the set of attributes corresponding to a node of the set of nodes; and

,

an amount of weighting between nodes of the set of nodes corresponds to a degree of relevance between the persona and the attributes.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein:

the set of attributes comprise at least one of demographic attributes, geographic attributes, psychographic attributes, and behavioristic attributes.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein:

a link between a first node of the set of nodes and a second node of the set of nodes is represented by an attribute weight, the attribute weight indicating a degree of relevance between the attributes corresponding to the first node and the second node.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions executable by the processor further comprise instructions for:

receiving feedback from the user relating to the travel-related cognitive persona associated with the user; and

,

revising weighting of the links among the set of nodes of the weighted cognitive graph based upon the feedback.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the instructions executable by the processor further comprise instructions for:

using the revised weighting to generate a second travel-related cognitive persona.

7. A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:

receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources;

processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching for incorporation into a cognitive graph comprising a set of nodes and links between the nodes that represent travel-related knowledge by;

processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources to perform entity detection on the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, and

incorporating the enriched data into the cognitive graph by incorporating one or more entities determined from the entity detection into the cognitive graph by;

generating one or more sub-graphs comprising at least one node representing the one or more entities determined from the entity detection, and

incorporating the one or more sub-graphs into the cognitive graph so that the cognitive graph includes at least one node representing those one or more entitles and one or more links between the at least one node representing those one or more entitles and one or more of the other set of nodes of the cognitive graph;

defining a travel-related cognitive persona within the cognitive graph, the travel-related cognitive persona corresponds to an archetype user model and the travel-related cognitive persona comprises a sub-graph within the cognitive graph including a subset of the set of nodes in the cognitive graph and a subset of the links among the set of nodes, the subset of the links among the subset of nodes being weighted to provide a weighted sub-graph within the cognitive graph;

associating a user with the travel-related cognitive persona; and

generating a cognitive insight including data from a node of the cognitive graph associated with the user and the travel-related cognitive persona by traversing the cognitive graph based on a graph query and the travel-related cognitive persona associated with the user to determine the node of the cognitive graph including the data.

8. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein:

the travel-related cognitive persona represents a set of attributes, each of the set of attributes corresponding to a node of the set of nodes; and

,

an amount of weighting between nodes of the set of nodes corresponds to a degree of relevance between the persona and the attributes.

9. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein:

the set of attributes comprise at least one of demographic attributes, geographic attributes, psychographic attributes, and behavioristic attributes.

10. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein:

a link between a first node of the set of nodes and a second node of the set of nodes is represented by an attribute weight, the attribute weight indicating a degree of relevance between the attributes corresponding to the first node and the second node.

11. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the instructions executable by the processor further comprise instructions for:

receiving feedback from the user relating to the travel-related cognitive persona associated with the user; and

,

revising weighting of the links among the set of nodes of the weighted cognitive graph based upon the feedback.

12. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions executable by the processor further comprise instructions for:

using the revised weighting to generate a second travel-related cognitive persona.

13. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the computer executable instructions are deployable to a client system from a server system at a remote location.

14. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the computer executable instructions are provided by a service provider to a user on an on-demand basis.

15. A cognitive computing system comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embodying computer program code, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by the processor for;

receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources;

processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching for incorporation into a cognitive graph comprising a set of nodes and links between the nodes that represent travel-related knowledge by;

processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources to perform entity detection on the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, and

incorporating the enriched data into the cognitive graph by incorporating one or more entities determined from the entity detection into the cognitive graph by;

generating one or more sub-graphs comprising at least one node representing the one or more entities determined from the entity detection, and

incorporating the one or more sub-graphs into the cognitive graph so that the cognitive graph includes at least one node representing those one or more entitles and one or more links between the at least one node representing those one or more entitles and one or more of the other set of nodes of the cognitive graph;

defining a travel-related cognitive persona within the cognitive graph, the travel-related cognitive persona corresponds to an archetype user model and the travel-related cognitive persona comprises a sub-graph within the cognitive graph including a subset of the set of nodes in the cognitive graph and a subset of the links among the set of nodes, the subset of the links among the subset of nodes being weighted to provide a weighted sub-graph within the cognitive graph;

associating a user with the travel-related cognitive persona; and

generating a cognitive insight including data from a node of the cognitive graph associated with the user and the travel-related cognitive persona by traversing the cognitive graph based on a graph query and the travel-related cognitive persona associated with the user to determine the node of the cognitive graph including the data.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein:

the travel-related cognitive persona represents a set of attributes, each of the set of attributes corresponding to a node of the set of nodes; and

,

an amount of weighting between nodes of the set of nodes corresponds to a degree of relevance between the persona and the attributes.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein:

the set of attributes comprise at least one of demographic attributes, geographic attributes, psychographic attributes, and behavioristic attributes.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein:

a link between a first node of the set of nodes and a second node of the set of nodes is represented by an attribute weight, the attribute weight indicating a degree of relevance between the attributes corresponding to the first node and the second node.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for:

receiving feedback from the user relating to the travel-related cognitive persona associated with the user; and

,

revising weighting of the links among the set of nodes of the weighted cognitive graph based upon the feedback.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions for:

using the revised weighting to generate a second travel-related cognitive persona.