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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2010
Ashwin Sridharan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mukund Seshadri, Oakland, CA (US);
James Christopher Schneider, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Bodicherla Aditya Prakash, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Christos Faloutsos, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Sridhar Machiraju, Burlingame, CA (US);
Ashwin Sridharan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mukund Seshadri, Oakland, CA (US);
James Christopher Schneider, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Bodicherla Aditya Prakash, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Christos Faloutsos, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Sridhar Machiraju, Burlingame, CA (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
What is disclosed is a method of operating a communication network, where the communication network comprises a set of users. The method includes obtaining usage activity for each of the users of the set and processing the usage activity to determine connectivity information between individual ones of the users of the set. The method also includes processing the connectivity information to determine users of the set with similar connectivity, and processing the users of the set with similar connectivity to identify a community of users within the users of the set with similar connectivity. The method also includes monitoring at least one of the users in the community to determine if action is needed for at least another one of the users in the community.