IDENTIFYING INFLUENCE PATHS AND EXPERTISE NETWORK IN AN ENTERPRISE USING MEETING PROVENANCE DATA

• Main Authors: TOPKARA MERCAN, DOGANATA YURDAER N
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.05.2013
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND,DEAF OR MUTE; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; DIAGRAMS; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; GLOBES; PHYSICS; PLANETARIA; SEALS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Techniques are disclosed for identifying influence paths and expertise networks in an enterprise using provenance data associated with one or more meetings. For example, a method for processing provenance data comprises the following steps: generating provenance data for each of one or more meetings that capture one or more aspects of each meeting, correlating the provenance data between the one or more meetings, identifying a main topic and one or more sub-topics of each of the one or more meetings to establish a relation between the one or more meetings on a basis of topic, and identifying a path of influence among one or more meetings based on the correlated provenance data and the topic relation of the one or more meetings, wherein a path of influence comprises a meeting that influences one or more subsequent meetings on a basis of provenance data and topic.