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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 23, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Liang Gou, San Jose, CA (US);

Aditya Pal, San Jose, CA (US);

Fei Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Wei Zhang, Ossining, NY (US);

Michelle Zhou, Saratoga, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/60 (2006.01); G06F 17/10 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0204 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments relate to relationship modeling and visualization from social media. One aspect includes determining a relationship type of a network-based relationship, between an individual and a network contact of the individual, from at least one social media data source. The relationship type is determined using a relationship model based on relationship types that include operational, personal, and business. Another aspect includes performing timeline based relationship strength segmentation using Group Lasso. The timeline based relationship strength segmentation specifies a past and current strength of the relationship. A further aspect includes predicting a future strength of the relationship using Extended Kalman Filter, and providing, through a visual interface, interactive visual analytics to view and monitor relationship states including the past, current, and future strengths over time.


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