Patent Document ID: 20170063620
Application ID: 14840647
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: determining, across a network comprising multiple nodes, one or more target nodes in relation to a query node, wherein said determining comprises calculating a matching score for each of the multiple nodes based on one or more attributes identified in a query associated with the query node, and wherein said determining is carried out by a matching algorithm executing on a computing device; computing a probability associated with each of multiple edges in the network that connects two or more of the multiple nodes, wherein the probability comprises the likelihood, given the one or more attributes identified in the query, that a given node is to forward information to a node connected thereto via a given edge, and wherein said computing is carried out by an iterative algorithm executing on the computing device; and identifying at least one path from the query node to at least one of the one or more target nodes based on the computed probability associated with each of the multiple edges in the network.