METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USING AN ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FOR GENERATING, USING, OR UPDATING AN ENRICHED USER PROFILE

• Main Authors: WHALE PETER CHARLES, BEITH SCOTT, O'DONOGHUE HUGH, HOUGH JASON, HEALY COLM, PEGUM ANDREW, CORRIGAN SEAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.09.2013
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for communication are provided in which a communications device is operable to obtain an attribute associated with an enriched user profile including three or more informational elements. In one aspect, at least one of the three or more informational elements may include a contextual sub-element. The communications device may be operable to populate an organizational matrix using the three or more informational elements, and determine a repetitious structure based at least in part on analysis of the populated organizational matrix. In one aspect, the device may determine a relevance value associated with the attribute based at least in part on the determined repetitious structure and predict a second attribute based at least in part on the determined relevance and the repetitious structure. In one aspect, the device may query the organizational matrix using a querying criterion.