Patent ID: 11868966
Assignee: nan
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions or program code that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computer system to determine that multiple identities or social media profiles correspond to a common entity, and utilize the profile data associated to any identity intra-related to the common entity in place of any identity also intra-related to the common entity, by:
aggregating, for each of one or more specified identities, one or more intra-related identities into a meta-identity representing a single underlying entity at an established likelihood, said meta-identity containing a unified meta-profile comprising at least one of:
a combined profile information,
a combined intra-related identity relationships, or
a combined inter-related identity relationships of the meta-identity's intra-related component identities;

wherein at least one of the plurality of intra-related identities has not been previously intra-related to the others by a registered user of the identity resolution system;
and either:
responding to requests for audience operations on one or more specified identities by utilizing the meta-identities intra-related to the one or more specified identities, or
responding to requests for audience operations on one or more specified groups of one or more identities by utilizing the meta-identity intra-related to each identity associated to each of the one or more specified groups.