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FORMING A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP NETWORK

  • US 20120316903A1
  • Filed: 08/17/2012
  • Published: 12/13/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of automatically determining and evaluating a business relationship network for forming business relationships, the method comprising:

  • generating a collective knowledge set of business relationship information from a plurality of sources;

    mapping the collective knowledge set as a plurality of navigable paths forming a business relationship network between a source and a target, each navigable path of the plurality of navigable paths comprising nodes and links between at least some of the nodes;

    analyzing feedback including stored historical information of successes and failures in generating business relationships of prior navigable paths from previously-generated business relationship networks;

    determining evaluation criteria from the feedback and the mapping, wherein the determining of evaluation criteria includes;

    determining that a value of “

    n”

    for n-degrees of separation between the source and the target for each of the plurality of navigable paths is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold;

    assigning, based on attributes of each node, a tier value for each link in each of the plurality of navigable paths, resulting in a plurality of tier values; and

    assigning each of the plurality of navigable paths to one of the plurality of tier values based on an order of the links from the source to the target and their tier values, wherein links represent relationships and the link closest to the source represents the most significant relationship to lead to a business relationship between the source and the target; and

    identifying, by a processor of a computer system, based on the determined evaluation criteria, a subset of the plurality of navigable paths as candidate paths mapped from the collective knowledge set to generate a business relationship between the source and the target based on the evaluation criteria.

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