QUERYING SOCIAL NETWORKS

Patent №

US 7,702,685

Granted

2010-04-20

Filed 2006

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11275651

A data model models a social network. The data model can be embodied as a person profile schema and a connector profile schema. The person profile schema defines properties of persons in the social network. The connector profile schema defines connectivity properties of persons that connect a searcher to the persons in social network that the searcher desires to find. Query languages can be based on the data model and can be used to express queries of social networks. Queries can be for persons, for connecting persons, or for both.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware0.92
Vision0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 174620108

Assignors

SHRUFI, ADEL A., KISHORE, AJITESH, ANDERSON, GLEN H., MAHAJAN, SAMEER, SWAMI, SUNIL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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