Patent ID: 9648130
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for finding people within a network of people who are interested in the same topic, comprising: providing in a database, individual user profiles for people within the network of people based upon concepts featured in documents consumed by said people so that the individual user profiles include user-specific concepts, the act of providing user profiles comprising: selecting a newly selected document concerning a topic of interest, the document selecting step comprising: a computer system creating a model of the newly selected document including document-specific concepts featured in the newly selected document, the model creating step comprising generating a new feature vector for the newly selected document, the new feature vector comprising document-specific concepts, the document-specific concepts each comprising a new normalized version of the term and at least one attribute of usage for the new normalized term, the new feature vector also comprising a strength value of the new normalized term relative to the newly selected document, the strength value indicating the likelihood that the new normalized term indicates what the newly selected document is about; a computer system comparing the document-specific concepts to the user-specific concepts from the individual user profiles; determining any matches of individual user profiles for people within the network of people as a result of the comparing step; and if there are any matches, reporting at least one individual user profile from the individual user profiles for people within the network of people to a user.