Patent ID: 8249903
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of automatically determining and evaluating a business relationship network for forming business relationships, the method comprising: generating a collective knowledge set of business relationship information from a plurality of sources; mapping the collective knowledge set as a plurality of navigable paths forming a business relationship network between a source and a target, each navigable path of the plurality of navigable paths comprising nodes and links between at least some of the nodes; analyzing feedback including stored historical information of successes and failures in generating business relationships of prior navigable paths from previously-generated business relationship networks; determining evaluation criteria from the feedback and the mapping, wherein the determining of evaluation criteria includes: identifying, by a processor of a computer system, based on the determined evaluation criteria, a subset of the plurality of navigable paths as candidate paths mapped from the collective knowledge set to generate a business relationship between the source and the target.