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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2007
Sugato Basu, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jiye Yu, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jeffrey Davitz, Danville, CA (US);
Mark Drummond, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Sugato Basu, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jiye Yu, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jeffrey Davitz, Danville, CA (US);
Mark Drummond, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network, for example by first identifying topics in the social network is provided. One embodiment of a method for discovering topics in a social network includes collecting information from the social network, the information including at least one of: interactions between users of the social network or profile information for the users, determining a global topic model including at least one topic, based on the collected information, and locally refining the global topic model in accordance with the collected information.