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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Vipindeep Vangala, Hyderabad, IN;
Shobana Balakrishnan, Redmond, WA (US);
Pankaj Khanzode, Hyderabad, IN;
Omar Zia Khan, Medina, WA (US);
Nitin Agrawal, Redmond, WA (US);
Ye-Yi Wang, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented technique is described herein for creating a relational data structure by extracting user data items from a collection of one or more applications sources. These data items evince interests exhibited by the users, and may include messages, documents, tasks, meetings, etc. The technique also collects knowledge data items from one or more knowledge sources. In one implementation, these data items may include terms used to describe skills possessed by the users. The technique constructs the data structure by providing objects associated with respective data items, and links between respective pairs of objects. In its real-time phase of operation, the technique allows a user to interrogate the relational data structure, e.g., to identify skills possessed by a particular user, to find users associated with a specified skill, etc.