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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
May. 12, 2022
Pwc Product Sales Llc, New York, NY (US);
Alec Massey, Arlington, VA (US);
Laurence Palk, Portland, OR (US);
Marc Mazzie, Washington, DC (US);
Patrick Parodi, Bethesda, MD (US);
Robert Mesirow, Falls Church, VA (US);
Siddhant Bhatia, Great Falls, VA (US);
Jordan Srote, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jonathan Howlette, Chicago, IL (US);
PwC Product Sales LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques for determining levels of interactions amongst entities in a group are provided. A plurality of mobile electronic devices detect signal data indicating when pairs of devices are proximate to one another. A receiver receives the detected signal data, and a data structure representing a contact network is generated based on the received detected signal data. Based on the contact network, a first metric is generated comprising a quantification of an average number of other entities in the contact network with which an entity in the contact network will have interactions in a predetermined amount of time. Based on the contact network, a second metric is generated comprising a quotient comprising of a size of a component of the contact network divided by an overall network size of the contact network. Based on the first and second metric, a level of interaction amongst entities in the group is determined.