Patent ID: 8560681

Claim:
A method for characterizing a network communication, for each communication interaction between two users, u i o , u i d , of said network, the method comprising: obtaining a temporal annotation t i of each communication interaction, and a duration δ i of each communication interaction, characterizing, using a computer system, said network communication, thereby creating a communication graph C; wherein a first communication interaction and a second communication interaction within the network are considered for characterization of such network and form part of a communication graph C if: a) said first and second communication interactions have at least one user in common; and, b) the time lapsed between the end of the first communication interaction and the beginning of the second communication interaction is within a pre-established time window W; wherein each communication graph C i j is formed by i unique users and j communication interactions that fulfil the conditions a) and b) set before, and wherein for a given a support threshold Θ, any equivalence class of the communication graphs S={C i j (1), C i j (2), C i j (3), . . . C i j (n)} based on graph equivalence with no less than Θ communication graphs is referred to as a communication motif.