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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Amund Tveit, Trondheim, NO;
Kateryna Solonko, Oslo, NO;
Zoran Hranj, Oslo, NO;
Aleksander Øhrn, Oslo, NO;
Roman Werpachowski, Arneberg, NO;
Mohammadreza Bonyadi, Trondheim, NO;
Arun Shankar Iyer, Bangalore, IN;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure herein describes a system for measuring probability of influence in digital communications to determine if communication content originated in a person's own prior knowledge or new information more recently obtained from interaction with communications of others. An estimated probability a new communication by a first user comes from the same distribution as prior communications of the first user are generated using multidimensional statistics on embeddings representing the communications. A second estimated probability that the new communication comes from the same distribution as communication(s) of a second user that were accessible to the first user are generated. If the second probability is greater than the first probability, the new communication is more likely influenced by exposure of the first user to the second user's communications rather than the first user's own historical knowledge. An influence attribution recommendation is generated, including an influence attribution or other recommended action.