Method and system of determining and evaluating a business relationship network for forming business relationships
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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 “
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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 representing a lowest tier valued link in the respective navigable path, wherein the lowest tier valued link is least likely of all links in the respective navigable path 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.
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A collective knowledge set of business relationship information from a plurality of sources is generated. The collective knowledge set is mapped as a plurality of navigable paths forming a business relationship network between a source and a target. One or more of the paths are identified as candidate paths most likely to lead to a business relationship between the source and the target based on evaluation criteria.
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1. A method of automatically determining and evaluating a business relationship network for forming business relationships, the method comprising:
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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 representing a lowest tier valued link in the respective navigable path, wherein the lowest tier valued link is least likely of all links in the respective navigable path 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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer system to determine and evaluate a business relationship network for forming business relationships, the computer system comprising:
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data storage to store a collective knowledge set of business relationship information gathered from a plurality of sources, including historical information on successes and failures of using previously-generated business relationship networks to develop a business relationship; a processor; and a business relationship prospector comprising; a visualization module to map the collective knowledge set as a plurality of navigable paths forming the business relationship network between a source and a target, wherein at least one of the navigable paths includes a third party node and each of the plurality of navigable paths comprising nodes and links between at least some of the nodes; a feedback module to generate and analyze feedback, the feedback including the stored historical information of successes and failures in generating business relationships of prior navigable paths from previously-generated business relationship networks; and a relationship finder module to; determine evaluation criteria from the feedback and the mapping, wherein the relationship finder module is to; determine 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;assign, 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 assign each of the plurality of navigable paths to one of the plurality of tier values representing a lowest tier valued link in the respective navigable path, wherein the lowest tier valued link is least likely of all links in the respective navigable path to lead to a business relationship between the source and the target; and identify, 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. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A computer program embedded on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer program including instructions that when executed by a processor implement a method comprising:
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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 representing a lowest tier valued link in the respective navigable path, wherein the lowest tier valued link is least likely of all links in the respective navigable path 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. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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