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 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the new observation comprises a context; and selecting a cluster among the collection of clusters comprises matching the new observation to the selected cluster based on at least two of the following: a comparison between an entity street address described by the context and a street address described by a summary attribute value pair of the selected cluster; determining a geographic distance between an entity geolocation described by the context and a geolocation described by a summary attribute value pair of the selected cluster; a comparison between an entity phone number described by the context and a phone number described by a summary attribute value pair of the selected cluster; and determining an edit distance between an entity title described by the context and a title described by a summary attribute value pair of the selected cluster.