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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2008
Applicants:
Deirdre Paul, Madison, NJ (US);
Christopher Volinsky, Morristown, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Deirdre Paul, Madison, NJ (US);
Christopher Volinsky, Morristown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0204 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for identifying influencers are disclosed. For example, the method obtains a list of customers, and determines a social network for each of the customers. The method selects one or more attributes to be used for predicting a measure of influence for each of the customers, and determines one or more influencers in the social network by using the one or more attributes.