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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2007
Marc Eliot Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
George Grinstead, Stockholm, SE;
Lee J. Parry, Stockholm, SE;
Marco Boerries, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Christopher William Higgins, Portland, OR (US);
Joseph James O'sullivan, Oakland, CA (US);
Ronald Martinez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Carter Trout, Burlingame, CA (US);
Marc Eliot Davis, San Francisco, CA (US);
George Grinstead, Stockholm, SE;
Lee J. Parry, Stockholm, SE;
Marco Boerries, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Christopher William Higgins, Portland, OR (US);
Joseph James O'Sullivan, Oakland, CA (US);
Ronald Martinez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Carter Trout, Burlingame, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure describes systems and methods for synchronizing data on a network based on temporal, spatial, social and logical data available to the network. The method includes receiving a first information object (IO) containing attributes for a first real-world entity (RWE), the first IO associated with a second RWE; identifying one or more second IOs, each second IO containing one or more attributes for the first RWE and each second IO independently associated with a third RWE; generating a different probability for each IO based on a comparison of contents of the first and second IOs and their associated RWEs; and replacing one or more of the attributes in at least one IO with at least one attribute from a different IO based on the probabilities for each IO.