SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LARGE-SCALE LINK ANALYSIS

摘要

Systems and methods for accepting relationship indications based on interaction among entities, where each relationship indication specifies that a respective pair of the entities may be related. A single entity record may be constructed that indicates all the linked entities that have been identified as being related to the entity. The entities may include an individual, a set of individuals, a communication terminal, a plurality of communication terminals, an organization, an e-mail address, a Web-site, a bank account and a home address. An analytics operation may performed, such as identifying a shortest sequence of interrelated entities that relate a first entity with a second entity, and acting upon the identified sequence.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
accepting a plurality of relationship indications based on interaction among entities, each relationship indication specifying that a respective pair of the entities are related; using a link processor, identifying for each entity among a group of the entities, based on the relationship indications, one or more linked entities that are related to the entity, and constructing for each entity in the group, a single-entity record that indicates all the linked entities that have been identified as being related to the respective entity; storing in a memory multiple single-entity records, each single-entity record corresponding respectively to only one of the entities in the group; and identifying one or more of the entities as targets-of-interest.