Patent ID: 9697275
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method performed by a computing device for determining whether a group of entities can be extracted from an initial set of data, the method comprising: the computing device representing the initial set of data as a bipartite directed graph comprising a Set A of entities and a Set B of entities, and wherein the computing device uses a communication device to access the initial set of data comprising the entities of the Set A and the Set B; obtaining the initial set of data further comprising a subset S computing an iterative process to identify other entities within the group comprising: at each of the iterations within the iterative process, detecting whether a stop condition exists, the stop condition comprising detecting converged subsets of Set A or detecting converged subsets of Set B, or both; stopping the iterative process after detecting the stop condition exists and outputting a group of entities comprising the converged subsets of Set A or the converged subsets of Set B, or both.