AGGREGATING PROFILE INFORMATION

摘要

A method of aggregating profile information, comprising: automatically gathering peoples' profiles from multiple websites; identifying multiple features in each profile; normalizing the values of the features into a common format; and forming a profile graph by representing each of the profiles as a corresponding node in the profile graph, and connecting each of a plurality of pairs of the nodes with one or more edges representing matches between the values of features found in both profiles. The method further comprises: matching together different ones of the profiles into groups based on the edges between the corresponding nodes in the profile graph, each group estimated to be the profiles of a respective same one of the people; for each of the groups, aggregating at least some of the profiles of the group into an aggregate profile of the respective person; and making the aggregate profiles available via the Internet.