Patent Document ID: 9940381
Application ID: 14616321

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: obtaining a collection of clusters of immutable observations about entities, at least a plurality of the clusters each: corresponding to a respective entity, identifying immutable observations determined to describe the respective entity, and having summary attribute-value pairs that summarize the identified observations and collectively describe an inferred current state of the respective entity; receiving a new observation about a given entity; selecting, with one or more processors, a cluster among the collection of clusters based on correspondence of the selected cluster to the given entity; summarizing, with one or more processors, the selected cluster by updating at least some of the summary attribute-value pairs of the selected cluster based on both the new observation and the observations identified by the selected cluster; storing the updated attribute-value pairs in memory in association with the selected cluster; and updating a user interface at a user device using the new observation.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein: the new observation includes a user-generated value of an attribute of the given entity and a context that includes the values of one or more other attributes of the given entity; and selecting a cluster among the collection of clusters as corresponding to the given entity comprises: composing at least part of a query based on one more of the values of attributes included in the context; identifying candidate clusters responsive to the query based on the candidate clusters having summary attribute-value pairs that match the attribute values upon which the query is based; calculating a respective score for each of the candidate clusters; and associating the new observation with a candidate cluster selected based on the calculated scores.