Patent ID: 9390225
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F,G09B,G16B

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for identifying genealogically related individuals, the method comprising: maintaining a plurality of sets of genetic data sampled from a plurality of human individuals; receiving a set of genetic data sampled from a first human individual not included in the plurality of human individuals; identifying segments of genetic data shared between the received set of genetic data and one or more of the maintained sets of genetic data, the segmental sharing indicating that one or more human individuals corresponding to the one or more sets, including a second human individual, are genetically related to the first human individual; receiving a selection by the first human individual, from the indicated one or more human individuals, of one or more human individuals related to the first human individual; creating a first set of genealogical data representing ancestors of the first human individual based on the received selection of the one or more related human individuals; identifying a second set of genealogical data representing individuals that are ancestors of the second human individual; creating, by a computer, a first set of nodes where each node in the first set corresponds to a unique individual identified in both the first and the second sets of genealogical data by comparing bibliographic data, each node comprising at least two identifiers each corresponding to a location of the unique individual within one of the sets of genealogical data; concatenating, by the computer, the first set of nodes with a second set of nodes having at least one unique individual in common with the first set of nodes to create a concatenated set of nodes, the concatenating comprising merging nodes both comprising a same identifier; and selecting, by the computer, one of the nodes in the concatenated set a common ancestor of the first human individual and the second human individual; and providing, by the computer, bibliographic data about the common ancestor to the first human individual.