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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:
Feb. 01, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 14, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

David L. Johnson, Pine Island, MN (US);

Brian R. Muras, Otsego, MN (US);

Daniel J. Strauss, Rochester, MN (US);

Eric G. Thiemann, Owatonna, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06F 40/40 (2020.01); G06F 40/211 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06F 16/288 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 40/211 (2020.01); G06F 40/40 (2020.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method of establishing influence relationships between data in a question-answering environment is disclosed. Establishing influence relationships can include determining a set of conditions indicating a set of user statuses and analyzing, using a first natural language processing technique, a corpus of data including a set of user data. Establishing influence relationships between data can include identifying, based on analyzing the corpus of data, a set of influence factors corresponding to a subset of the set of user data and to a subset of the set of conditions. In embodiments, establishing influence relationships can include establishing, based on the set of influence factors, a set of influence relationships between the subset of the set of user data and the subset of the set of conditions.


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