Discovery of a Network of Business relationships and Evaluation of significance of a relationship

摘要

It provides a method that includes (a) consider Records That describe transactions between entities, (b) build in a database, a data structure that represents a Network of relationships, based on Transactions, where the network is (i) a First entity and (I (i) a Second entity that is separate from the first entity in n levels,And where n is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and (e) to compute a relevance of the second entity with respect to the first entity as a function of, i.e., based on a feature of the second entity. Also provided is a system that carries out the method, and storage Medium containing instructions for Controlling a Processor to perform the method.