System or Apparatus for Finding Influential Users

Patent №

US 8,700,640

Granted

2014-04-15

Filed 2012

Owner

TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)

Lab

AI components

2

ml · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13542795

Embodiments of the invention disclose a method, identifier and a computer program product for identifying influential users among a group of users associated with a communication network. The disclosed method includes selecting two or more ranking models from a plurality of ranking models such that each ranking model provides scores to the users in the group based on a usage data of the users, calculating a weighing factor for each of the selected ranking models, generating an aggregate score for each user using the weighing factor and the score provided by each one of the selected model such that based on the aggregate score, the influential users among the group of users are identified.

Machine learningKnowledge representationG06F 16/93G06F 16/27G06Q 10/10G06Q 10/40G06F 16/20

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
Knowledge representation0.86
AI hardware0.46
Evolutionary computation0.36
Planning0.28
Natural language0.11
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)

assignment · 289970898

Assignors

SHIVASHANKAR, SUBRAMANIAN, ZAHOOR, JAWAD MOHAMED

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

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