Patent ID: 8160982

Claim:
A method, embodied in a software program, for detecting people of interest from information sources, wherein said software program comprises computer-executable instructions, said instructions being stored on a non-transitory computer-readable media, wherein when said instructions are executed by a computer, said computer performs the following steps so as to output a transformative result having a usefulness separate and apart from said computer: selecting for identification persons S, where persons S comprise a subset of the total set of persons U, wherein for any two persons in said subset of persons S, there exists a common characteristic represented by a mathematical function C between said any two persons in subset S; and where said function C generates a correlation value and correlation relationship between said any two persons in subset S; generating said correlation values by applying said function C to each of said any two persons in said subset S; graphing G(S,E), wherein E is the edge set of said graph G with computed correlation values as weights; and mapping said graph G to one of its sub graphs M ⊂ G so as to generate a community.