Patent ID: 11954159
Assignee: ADP, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
retrieving, from a plurality of networked databases, characteristic data representing a plurality of entities;
generating, based on the characteristic data, a characteristic graph, the characteristic graph comprising:
a plurality of entity nodes representing the plurality of entities, wherein the plurality of entities include at least one of an individual or organization;
a plurality of characteristic nodes representing a plurality of distinct characteristics; and
a plurality of edges connecting the entity nodes to the characteristic nodes, wherein the plurality of edges each indicate a relative strength of the plurality of entities represented by the plurality of entity nodes with regard to the plurality of distinct characteristics represented by the characteristic nodes respectively;

transforming the nodes of the characteristic graph to a vector representation;
receiving a similarity request regarding a first entity in the plurality of entities;
calculating, using the vector representation based on the similarity request, similarity scores between the first entity and remaining entities in the plurality of entities;
providing a list of highest ranked entities within the remaining entities based on the similarity scores.