Title:
ANALYSIS OF THIRD PARTY NETWORKS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2003069435
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A method of analyzing customer behavior, where customers are engaged in customer-to-customer transactions (52) in the third-party network, includes the transformation of data representing the customer-to-customer transactions (52) from a data representation (50) to a network representation, and then analyzing the network representation. The network representation includes a set of nodes and a set of links (54) where each node represents a customer and each link represents a transaction between two of the customers (54).
Inventors:
ZHANG TAO (US)
DONOHO STEVEN KIRK (US)
DONOHO STEVEN KIRK (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2003/004064
Publication Date:
December 11, 2003
Filing Date:
February 12, 2003
Export Citation:
Assignee:
MANTAS INC (US)
ZHANG TAO (US)
DONOHO STEVEN KIRK (US)
ZHANG TAO (US)
DONOHO STEVEN KIRK (US)
International Classes:
G06Q30/00; (IPC1-7): G06F17/60; G06F17/00
Foreign References:
| US6226623B1 | 2001-05-01 | |||
| US5794206A | 1998-08-11 |
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