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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2011
Filed:
May. 05, 2006
Patrick Mcculler, San Diego, CA (US);
Patrick McCuller, San Diego, CA (US);
Sony Online Entertainment LLC, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Determining influential and/or popular participants in a network using messages exchanged among a group of participants. One method includes: representing the group of participants and the messages exchanged among the group of participants as nodes and links, respectively; analyzing the messages to produce message relevant data for each node; and propagating the message relevant data of the each node out to other nodes in the network to produce a corresponding influence value for each node, wherein the corresponding influence value indicates relative size and strength of social activity or connections of a participant corresponding to each node.