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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2024
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Yaron Kanza, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Divesh Srivastava, Summit, NJ (US);
Caroline Stone, St. Louis, MO (US);
David Wood, St. Louis, MO (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A processing system including at least one processor may obtain at least one search term and an identity of a searcher, identify individuals who are each either a one-step or two-step association of the searcher, identify first documents associated with the individuals and associated with the search term(s), calculate, for each individual, a score based upon citations of second documents to documents associated with the individual from among the first documents, generate an invitation to at least one individual to appear in a search result, and obtain a consent from the at least one individual. The processing system may then present the search result as an ordered list of at least a portion of the individuals, where the ordered list is ordered by the score for each individual, and where the at least the portion of the plurality of individuals includes the at least one individual.