ASSOCIATING ENTITIES BASED ON RESOURCE ASSOCIATIONS

• US 20150169579A1
• Filed: 07/17/2013
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Connor, James T., Verstak, Alexandre A., Acharya, Anurag
• Granted Patent: US 9,336,330 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90335 Query processing

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for associating resources based on resource associations. One of the methods includes receiving a first profile, wherein the first profile is for a first author, wherein the first profile links to one or more first documents, wherein the first author is an author of each of the one or more first documents; identifying, one or more second authors, wherein each of the one or more second authors is a co-author of one or more of the first documents; calculating, respective co-author scores for each of the one or more second authors; ranking, the one or more second authors based on their respective co-author scores; and associating, the one or more second authors with the first profile, the first profile includes a listing of the one or more second authors in an order according to the ranking.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a first profile in a system comprising one or more computers, wherein the first profile is for a first author, wherein the first profile links to one or more first documents, wherein the first author is an author of each of the one or more first documents;

identifying by operation of the system, one or more second authors, wherein each of the one or more second authors is a co-author of one or more of the first documents;

calculating by operation of the system, respective co-author scores for each of the one or more second authors;

ranking by operation of the system, the one or more second authors based on their respective co-author scores; and

associating by operation of the system, the one or more second authors with the first profile, the first profile includes a listing of the one or more second authors in an order according to the ranking.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein calculating a respective co-author score for a second author comprises:

determining a count of the one or more first documents;

determining a recency measure for each of the first documents;

determining a popularity measure for each of the first documents;

determining an author uniqueness measure for each of the first documents; and

calculating the co-author score based on a count of the common documents, the recency measures, the popularity measures, and author uniqueness measures for each of the common documents.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein associating the one or more second authors with the first profile comprises:

associating one or more second authors that each have a respective co-author score that satisfies a threshold, the one or more second authors being ranked in a descending order of the co-authorship score.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying by operation of the system respective second profiles for one or more of the second authors; and

updating by operation of the system the listing of the one or more second authors to include links to the respective second profiles.

5. A system, comprising:

one or more computers configured to perform operations comprising;

receiving a first profile, wherein the first profile is for a first author, wherein the first profile links to one or more first documents, wherein the first author is an author of each of the one or more first documents;

identifying, one or more second authors, wherein each of the one or more second authors is a co-author of one or more of the first documents;

calculating, respective co-author scores for each of the one or more second authors;

ranking, the one or more second authors based on their respective co-author scores; and

associating, the one or more second authors with the first profile, the first profile includes a listing of the one or more second authors in an order according to the ranking.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein calculating a respective co-author score for a second author comprises:

determining a count of the one or more first documents;

determining a recency measure for each of the first documents;

determining a popularity measure for each of the first documents;

determining an author uniqueness measure for each of the first documents; and

calculating the co-author score based on a count of the common documents, the recency measures, the popularity measures, and author uniqueness measures for each of the common documents.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein associating the one or more second authors with the first profile comprises:

associating one or more second authors that each have a respective co-author score that satisfies a threshold, the one or more second authors being ranked in a descending order of the co-authorship score.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying respective second profiles for one or more of the second authors; and

updating the listing of the one or more second authors to include links to the respective second profiles.

9. A computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving a first profile, wherein the first profile is for a first author, wherein the first profile links to one or more first documents, wherein the first author is an author of each of the one or more first documents;

identifying, one or more second authors, wherein each of the one or more second authors is a co-author of one or more of the first documents;

calculating, respective co-author scores for each of the one or more second authors;

ranking, the one or more second authors based on their respective co-author scores; and

associating, the one or more second authors with the first profile, the first profile includes a listing of the one or more second authors in an order according to the ranking.

10. The computer storage medium of claim 9, wherein calculating a respective co-author score for a second author comprises:

determining a count of the one or more first documents;

determining a recency measure for each of the first documents;

determining a popularity measure for each of the first documents;

determining an author uniqueness measure for each of the first documents; and

calculating the co-author score based on a count of the common documents, the recency measures, the popularity measures, and author uniqueness measures for each of the common documents.

11. The computer storage medium of claim 9, wherein associating the one or more second authors with the first profile comprises:

associating one or more second authors that each have a respective co-author score that satisfies a threshold, the one or more second authors being ranked in a descending order of the co-authorship score.

12. The computer storage medium of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying respective second profiles for one or more of the second authors; and

updating the listing of the one or more second authors to include links to the respective second profiles.