Patent ID: 9154640
Filing Date: 2015-10-06
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: at a first time, accepting a plurality of indications based on interaction among entities, each indication specifying that a respective pair of the entities are related, and constructing based on the indications a data structure representing relationships among respective pairs of the entities, wherein the data structure is suitable for large-scale link analysis; at a second time subsequent to the first time, accepting one or more additional indications, and updating the relationships in the data structure based on the additional indications; and outputting a notification upon detecting that a rule, which is defined over the relationships and is not met at the first time, is met at the second time; wherein the method is conducted in real time, wherein the notification is output as a graph database, which stores aggregated information about the entities and the relationship between them, wherein the graph database represents each entity as a node, where each node is directly related to one or more other nodes via edges.