Patent ID: 9471696
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for pathing analysis, the method comprising: receiving, at a server, a query identifying one or more nodes; identifying one or more prior queries that include at least one of the one or more nodes; accessing metadata associated with the one or more prior queries; selecting, based on the metadata, one or more data partitions for further processing by determining a first plurality of frequencies, the first plurality of frequencies comprising a frequency of a least frequently occurring path associated with each of a second one or more data partitions, determining a second plurality of frequencies, the second plurality of frequencies comprising a frequency of a most frequently occurring path associated with each of the second one or more data partitions, determining a lowest frequency of the first plurality of frequencies, and selecting the one or more data partitions, wherein a frequency of the second plurality of frequencies associated with each of the one or more data partitions is greater than the lowest frequency of the first plurality of frequencies; causing one or more computers to identify one or more paths in the selected data partitions, wherein the one or more paths comprise at least the one or more nodes; and presenting the identified paths as an output to the query.