System and method for constructing a social network from multiple disparate, heterogeneous data sources

US7512628B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Catherine Anne Chess · Ossining, US
• Kate Ehrlich · Newton, US
• Mary E. Helander · North White Plains, US
• Sandra L. Kearney · Harleysville, US
• Ching-Yung Lin · Scarsdale, US
• Sue Ann Medeiros · Hartsdale, US
• Katherine Penchuk · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 1, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 31, 2009
• Expiry date: Jan 20, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99945
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer implemented method of constructing a social network, the method including constructing the social network from a plurality of disparate, heterogenous data sources, wherein at least one of the plurality of disparate, heterogenous data sources includes a user generated data source; identifying a plurality of nodes and linkages; determining attributes of the nodes and linkages based on a plurality of disparate, heterogenous data sources, wherein the plurality of disparate, heterogenous data sources includes a combination of the user generated data source and at least one non-user generated source, wherein the attributes include at least one of a deterministic attribute, a probabilistic attribute, and a dynamic attribute; populating a mathemetical decision-making model based on the plurality of nodes and linkages, and the determined attributes of the plurality of nodes and linkages; determining attributes of the nodes and links at a second point in time; re-populating the mathematical decision-making model based on the plurality of nodes and linkages, and the determined attributes of the plurality of nodes and linkages at the second point in time.