SOCIAL NETWORK RELATIONSHIP MAPPING

Patent №

US 8,977,979

Granted

2015-03-10

Filed 2010

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

3

nlp · vision · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12960726

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for social network relationship mapping. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes identifying one or more terms within content displayed to a user; for each identified term: transmitting the identified term to one or more social networking servers supporting a social networking application, in response to transmitting the identified term to the social networking servers, receiving from the social networking servers a list of people that correspond with the identified term, directing a display device to display the list of people that correspond with the identified term, and in response to user input, adding an identification of a person from the list of people to a mapping clipboard; directing the display device to display a relationship graph that indicates how people identified in the mapping clipboard are connected to each other in the social networking application.

Natural languageVisionPlanningH04L 67/54G06F 3/0482G06F 16/26

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Vision0.55
Knowledge representation0.33
AI hardware0.31
Machine learning0.15
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 254510432

Assignors

BALASUBRAMANIAN, SWAMINATHAN, HANDY-BOSMA, JOHN H., O'CONNELL, BRIAN M., WALKER, KEITH R.

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