Systems and method for investigating relationships among entities

US12265587B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Salesforce, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Emily Brooks Pavlini · Boston, US
• Jason Rastrick Briggs · Boston, US
• Max Kleiman-Weiner · Cambridge, US
• John R. Frank · Cambridge, US
• Tyler Balensiefer · Cambridge, US
• Cogan Dwayne Culver · Ramoth, US
• Kevin John Doyle · Somerville, US
• Thomas Michael DuBois · Columbia, US
• Keith Michael Gabryelski · Cambridge, US
• Andrew Richard Gallant · Westborough, US
• Andrew Haskell · Burlingame, US
• Abdi-Hakin Dirie · Cambridge, US
• David Johnson · San Francisco, US
• Geoffrey Ira Milstein · Merrimac, US
• Daniel Adam Roberts · Cambridge, US
• Aaron Michael Taylor · Cambridge, US
• Henry Forrest Leanna Wallace · Cambridge, US
• Logan Eli Zoellner · Columbia, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 24, 2020
• Grant date: Apr 1, 2025
• Expiry date: Dec 11, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/93
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Connections among two different entities are identified by processing a collection of documents to identify one or more documents that contain co-occurring mentions of each of the two different entities. This relationship may be graphically displayed in a user interface with an icon or the like for each of the two entities, along with a graphical link interconnecting the entities. The graphical link can be an active element of the user interface that responds to user interactions by providing access to evidence within the collection of documents that substantiates the connection between the two entities. In one aspect, a search input form field in a user interface may be used to explicitly request documents that substantiate a relationship between two entities. In another aspect, a user may ground entity mentions by explicitly selecting documents that mention an entity of interest.