Patent ID: 9049249
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G06F,G06N,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of determining global hierarchy of an organization, the method comprising: computing, by at least one computer processor, subjective coherence strength, which quantifies subjective relationship strength between nodes of first members of a social network service based on information supplied by the first members; computing objective entanglement strength, which quantifies objective similarity between nodes of second members of the social network service based on the commonality of the second members recognized by a general crowd; using the subjective coherence strength and the objective entanglement strength to compute pairwise latent relationship probabilities, which measure the latent hierarchy relation probabilities between pairs of different nodes of the social network service; and using the pairwise latent relationship probabilities to compute a global hierarchy relationship comprising an organization chart for at least two levels of the organization.