System and method for social inference based on distributed social sensor system
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1. A method of data acquisition, comprising:
- extracting information from outgoing, user-authored communications, said extracting comprising extracting information only from communications authored by users who have provided authorization for system access to the communications;
allowing a user, the user having authored the user-authored communications, to control the information to be extracted, comprising controlling an exclude list, said exclude list comprising types of communications that are not allowed to be extracted;
inferring, based on the extracted data, a personal network for the user, said inferring comprising avoiding a direct relationship between any person in the system, their email, and the information being displayed; and
allowing the user to manipulate the personal network.
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Abstract
A method (and system) for data acquisition includes extracting information from user communications and allowing a user to control the information to be extracted. The method of data acquisition may include downloading a user'"'"'s sent materials from a communication data repository, analyzing the downloaded materials and extracting data portions that are authored by the user, generating statistical values from the extracted data, transmitting the generated statistical values to one or multiple repositories, receiving generated statistical values one or multiple server machines, and aggregating statistical values of multiple users.
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1. A method of data acquisition, comprising:
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extracting information from outgoing, user-authored communications, said extracting comprising extracting information only from communications authored by users who have provided authorization for system access to the communications; allowing a user, the user having authored the user-authored communications, to control the information to be extracted, comprising controlling an exclude list, said exclude list comprising types of communications that are not allowed to be extracted; inferring, based on the extracted data, a personal network for the user, said inferring comprising avoiding a direct relationship between any person in the system, their email, and the information being displayed; and allowing the user to manipulate the personal network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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