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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013

Filed:

Jun. 05, 2008
Applicants:

Ying Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, San Jose, CA (US);

Ana Lelescu, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

James J. Rhodes, Los Gatos, CA (US);

William Scott Spangler, San Martin, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ying Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, San Jose, CA (US);

Ana Lelescu, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

James J. Rhodes, Los Gatos, CA (US);

William Scott Spangler, San Martin, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and analytics tools for locating experts with specific sets of expertise are disclosed, the method including providing a collection of documents P; generating categories representing fields of expertise derived from the collection of documents P; refining the taxonomy of the categories by applying user domain knowledge; extracting structured fields from the collection of documents P; constructing a contingency table having a first axis defined by the extracted structured fields and a second axis defined by the categories; and using the contingency table to identify a set of experts having a related expertise. The method may also include a network graph analysis that aids visualization of the relationship between people and expertise.


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