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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
May. 14, 2010
Zaiqing Nie, Beijing, CN;
Yong Cao, Beijing, CN;
Gang Luo, Beijing, CN;
Ruochi Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Xiaojiang Liu, Beijing, CN;
Yunxiao MA, Beijing, CN;
BO Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Ying-qing Xu, Beijing, CN;
Ji-rong Wen, Beijing, CN;
Zaiqing Nie, Beijing, CN;
Yong Cao, Beijing, CN;
Gang Luo, Beijing, CN;
Ruochi Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Xiaojiang Liu, Beijing, CN;
Yunxiao Ma, Beijing, CN;
Bo Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Ying-Qing Xu, Beijing, CN;
Ji-Rong Wen, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The automated social networking graph mining and visualization technique described herein mines social connections and allows creation of a social networking graph from general (not necessarily social-application specific) Web pages. The technique uses the distances between a person's/entity's name and related people's/entities names on one or more Web pages to determine connections between people/entities and the strengths of the connections. In one embodiment, the technique lays out these connections, and then clusters them, in a 2-D layout of a social networking graph that represents the Web connection strengths among the related people's or entities' names, by using a force-directed model.