Searching Data in a Social Network to Provide an Answer to an Information Request

Patent №

US 9,253,271

Granted

2016-02-02

Filed 2013

Owner

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.

Lab

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14063280

An information request is received from a user of a social network. Data for other users in the social network is searched in order to provide an answer to the request. A question based on the information request is sent to one or more of the other users having prior activity on the social network that is related to the information request.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.96
Knowledge representation0.90
Machine learning0.27
Evolutionary computation0.18
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.

assignment · 322190376

Assignors

MARCUCCI, JUSTIN, RANDQUIST, COBY P

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

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