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Populating a multi-relational enterprise social network with disparate source data

US8700560B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 17, 2008
Grant dateApr 15, 2014
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Expiry dateJan 3, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06Q10/10
  • WIPO fieldIT methods for management
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Some aspects include association of fields of a data source with one or more entity identities, one or more relation identities, and one or more attributes corresponding, respectively, to entity identities, relation identities and facet attributes defined in metadata of an enterprise social network, and reception of data from the data source. Also included is a determination, based on the data and the associated fields of the data source, of one or more source entities, one or more source entity identities associated with each of the one or more source entities, one or more source relations, one or more source relation identities associated with each of the one or more source relations, and one or more source facets associated with one or more source entities or source relations.For each determined source entity, it is determined if any of the one or more associated source entity identities is identical to an entity identity of the enterprise social network. A new entity is created in the enterprise social network corresponding to the determined source entity if it is determined that none of the one or more associated source entity identities is identical to an entity identity of t…

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