Patent ID: 9253044
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F,G16B,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method to determine a score for a degree of activation of an original network among a set of networks, the original network composed of causal connections among a set of nodes that represent biological entities, processes or other networks, the original network having a reference node, comprising: (a) constructing a listing representative of a tree graph of tree-depth wherein a sign of the signed, directed edge from the root node to that child node is determined from the signs of one or more paths connecting the particular node in the original network to the reference node in the original network; wherein each child node also has a weight associated therewith, the node weight being based on the one or more paths connecting the particular node in the original network to the reference node in the original network; (b) scoring the tree graph based on scores assigned to the child nodes and the signs of the signed, directed edges; and (c) computing a new node weight for each child node by dividing the weight associated with each child node by the number of other networks in the set of networks that also contain that child node, and further normalizing the new node weights to sum to 1 by dividing all new node weights by the sum of all new node weights; wherein at least one of the constructing, scoring and computing steps are implemented in software executing in a hardware element.