Patent Document ID: 8700640
Application ID: 13542795

Base Claim:
1. A method for identifying influential users among a group of users associated with a communication network, the method comprising: selecting two or more ranking models and providing scores to the users in the group using said ranking models based on usage data of the users; calculating a weighing factor for each of the selected ranking models; generating an aggregate score for each user using the weighing factor and the score provided by each one of the selected ranking models; and identifying the influential users based on the aggregate score among the group of users by comparing the aggregate score with a predefined score.

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Claim 2:
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein selecting two or more ranking models comprises: providing scores to the users in the group using each one of the ranking models; computing correlation between the scores provided to the users by the ranking models; and selecting two or more ranking models based on the correlation, such that the ranking models which provide different scores to the users are selected.