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USING SPHERES-OF-INFLUENCE TO CHARACTERIZE NETWORK RELATIONSHIPS

  • US 20100161662A1
  • Filed: 12/18/2008
  • Published: 06/24/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of characterizing a network of relationships between entities, comprising:

  • evaluating a plurality of data records to identify groups of one or more data records, wherein each data record identifies at least an entity and each group of data records refers to a same entity;

    evaluating the identified groups of one or more data records to identify one or more relationships between the respective entities represented by the respective groups of data records;

    determining a distance score for each of the one or more identified relationships, wherein each distance score provides a measure of a relationship strength between two of the entities in a given identified relationship, based on the group of data records corresponding to the two entities; and

    generating a sphere-of-influence network of the respective entities represented by the respective groups of data records, wherein the sphere-of-influence network characterizes the identified relationships between entities based on the determined distance scores.

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