At&t Intellectual Property I, LP

Caroline Stone

Divesh Srivastava

Yaron Kanza

Rajat Malik

David Wood

A processing system including at least one processor may obtain at least one search term and an identity of a searcher, identify individuals who are each either a one-step or two-step association of the searcher, identify first documents associated with the individuals and associated with the search term(s), calculate, for each individual, a score based upon citations of second documents to documents associated with the individual from among the first documents, generate an invitation to at least one individual to appear in a search result, and obtain a consent from the at least one individual. The processing system may then present the search result as an ordered list of at least a portion of the individuals, where the ordered list is ordered by the score for each individual, and where the at least the portion of the plurality of individuals includes the at least one individual.

Confidentiality preserving intraorganizational expert search

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of: receiving a series of values from a data stream generated by one or more equipment in a communications network; creating a first window of values received before a first point in time and a second window of values received on or after the first point in time; comparing a distribution of values in the first window and values in the second window to compute a distance at the first point in time; repeating the creating and comparing at subsequent points in time after the first point in time, thereby generating a series of distances; computing a z-score for a first distance in the series of distances; generating an alert responsive to the z-score exceeding a threshold; and storing the alert in a log of alerts. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Caroline Stone