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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2011
Bongwon Suh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kevin Robert Canini, San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter L. Pirolli, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ed H. Chi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bongwon Suh, Cupertino, CA (US);
Kevin Robert Canini, San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter L. Pirolli, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ed H. Chi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for identifying users relevant to a topic of interest is provided. A query comprising one or more topics is executed against a corpus of messages. Voting users associated with the messages matching the query are identified. A set of candidate users comprising users connected to the voting users is generated. A relevancy score is computed for each candidate user. The candidate users are ranked by their respective relevancy score.