TECHNIQUES FOR INFERRING AN ORGANIZATIONAL HIERARCHY FROM A SOCIAL GRAPH

Patent №

US 9,049,249

Granted

2015-06-02

Filed 2013

Owner

LINKEDIN CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

3

ml · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13756142

A method, system and article of manufacture for determining a global hierarchy of an entity by computing subjective coherence strength between nodes of first members of a social network service, computing objective entanglement strength between nodes of second members of the social network service, using subjective coherence strength and objective entanglement strength, compute the pairwise latent relationship probabilities between different ones of the nodes of the social network service, and using the pairwise relationship probabilities, compute the global hierarchy relationship.

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AI classification

Knowledge representation1.00
Machine learning1.00
AI hardware1.00
Planning0.48
Natural language0.12
Vision0.12
Evolutionary computation0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

LINKEDIN CORPORATION

assignment · 314230076

Assignors

ZHANG, XIMENG, WANG, GUAN, ZHAO, YUCHEN, LIU, SHAOBO, SUTHERLAND-WONG, CHRISTIAN, DEREZIN, MIKE

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