Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Hongbin Gao

Zheng Chen

Benyu Zhang

Hua-Jun Zeng

Wei-Ying Ma

Gu Xu

Randy Hinrichs

Ying Li

Li Erran Li

Tarek Najm

Xianfang Wang

A method and system for identifying information about people is provided. The information system identifies groups of people that have relationships based on their relationships to documents or more generally to objects. The information system initially is provided with an indication of which people have which relationships to which documents. The information system then identifies clusters of people based on having a relationship to the same objects. The information system may also identify clusters of related objects associated with a cluster of people. When a user wants to identify information about a person, the user can provide the name of that person to the information system. The information system then can retrieve and display the names of the other people who are in the same cluster as the person.

Method and system for mining information based on relationships

Systems and methods for analyzing the content of online conversations using data mining technologies are provided. Methods and systems for utilizing the results of data mining technology implementation to retrieve relevant advertising content and/or other relevant information for display in association with the content of an online conversation are also provided.

System and method for utilizing the content of an online conversation to select advertising content and/or other relevant information for display

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