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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:
Nov. 26, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 08, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jeanette L. Blomberg, Portola Valley, CA (US);

Eric K. Butler, San Jose, CA (US);

Anca A. Chandra, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Pawan R. Chowdhary, San Jose, CA (US);

Susanne M. Glissmann-Hochstein, Berlin, DE;

Thomas D. Griffin, Campbell, CA (US);

Sunhwan Lee, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Robert J. Moore, San Jose, CA (US);

Hovey R. Strong, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); G06F 16/316 (2019.01); G06F 16/334 (2019.01);
Abstract

One embodiment provides a method that includes obtaining information including profile information and current event information. A processor generates a topic graph by converting the information to topic nodes in the topic graph. The processor determines a weight assignment for each topic node based on ratios of sums of weights of edges from topic nodes. Bridges are provided from a given topic node to a neighbor based on the weight assignment.


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