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Determining an entity's hierarchical relationship via a social graph

  • US 10,523,736 B2
  • Filed: 03/30/2015
  • Issued: 12/31/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for identifying a hierarchical relationship of an entity, comprising:

  • receiving a communication from a communication sender or the entity, the communication being addressed to a communication recipient;

    segmenting sub-units of the entity into one or more candidate related groups in a groups database based on one or more general attributes, each of the entity and the sub-units being a type of organization, wherein the sub-unit having the largest count of members is determined to be a parent entity;

    selecting a pair of the sub-units of one of the candidate related groups;

    analyzing, using a hardware processor, the pair of sub-units to determine a hierarchical relationship of the entity based on information contained in one or more profiles of members of a social networking service, the information related to the sub-units and one or more relationships between the sub-units;

    identifying the hierarchical relationship of the entity based on the determined hierarchical relationship; and

    presenting, through a user interface, a visual representation of a connection path between the communication sender or the entity, and the communication recipient, the connection path being determined at least in part based on the hierarchical relationship.

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