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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2009
Benyu Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Wei-ying MA, Beijing, CN;
Gu Xu, Beijing, CN;
Hongbin Gao, Beijing, CN;
Zheng Chen, Beijing, CN;
Randy Hinrichs, Sammamish, WA (US);
Hua-jun Zeng, Beijing, CN;
Benyu Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Wei-Ying Ma, Beijing, CN;
Gu Xu, Beijing, CN;
Hongbin Gao, Beijing, CN;
Zheng Chen, Beijing, CN;
Randy Hinrichs, Sammamish, WA (US);
Hua-Jun Zeng, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for identifying information about people is provided. The information system identifies groups of people that have relationships based on their relationships to documents or more generally to objects. The information system initially is provided with an indication of which people have which relationships to which documents. The information system then identifies clusters of people based on having a relationship to the same objects. The information system may also identify clusters of related objects associated with a cluster of people. When a user wants to identify information about a person, the user can provide the name of that person to the information system. The information system then can retrieve and display the names of the other people who are in the same cluster as the person.