US 2024/0403348 A1Published application

Conversation Graphs

AssigneeEverlaw, Inc.

InventorsMathew John, Joseph Kijewski, James Feng

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Abstract

Conversation graphing capabilities accommodate subsets of conversations to be examined or reviewed. An “others” node is included in a conversation graph displayed through a user interface representing, in one implementation, all conversations not shown on the graph. Individual nodes and/or edges can be selected regardless of whether they are adjacent or connected. Information related to the communications associated with the selected nodes and/or edges is displayed. Nodes associated with communications falling within a selected time range is included and emphasized in the conversation graph. Directionality (i.e., direction of majority of communications) and/or proportionality (i.e., fraction of communications flowing in one direction along an edge verses the opposite direction) is provided through a visual indication for individual edges in the conversation graph.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, a set of communications;
determining, by the computing device, a conversation graph representing conversations within the set of communications, the conversation graph including two or more nodes and one or more edges connecting pairs of the two or more nodes, wherein each given node represents a respective entity indicating one or more of a person or a domain name, and wherein a given edge connecting a given pair of nodes represents a flow of communication between the respective entities;
determining, based on first criteria, displayed nodes and non-displayed nodes in the conversation graph, the displayed nodes each having a quantity of communications that is equal to or more than a threshold quantity of communications, and the non-displayed nodes each having a quantity of communications that is less than the threshold quantity of communications;
causing display of the conversation graph comprising the displayed nodes and an others node through a user interface, wherein the others node represents the non-displayed nodes;
causing display of a timeline showing the set of communications associated with the displayed nodes and the other node;
receiving, from a user device, a user selection of second criteria associated with one or more displayed nodes, the second criteria comprising a timeframe received via the timeline;
determining, based on the second criteria, a first subset of displayed nodes falling within the timeframe and a second subset of displayed nodes falling outside the timeframe;
and
causing display, in response to the user selection and through the user interface, the first subset of displayed nodes as emphasized nodes and the second subset of displayed nodes as deemphasized nodes.

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A computing system comprising:

a memory comprising executable instructions embodied thereon;
and
one or more hardware processors configured to execute the instructions to:
receive a set of communications;
determine a conversation graph representing conversations within the set of communications, the conversation graph including two or more nodes and one or more edges connecting pairs of the two or more nodes, wherein each given node represents a respective entity indicating one or more of a person or a domain name, and wherein a given edge connecting a given pair of nodes represents a flow of communication between the respective entities;
determine, based on first criteria, displayed nodes and non-displayed nodes in the conversation graph, the displayed nodes each having a quantity of communications that is equal to or more than a threshold quantity of communications, and the non-displayed nodes each having a quantity of communications that is less than the threshold quantity of communications;
cause display of the conversation graph comprising the displayed nodes and an others node through a user interface, wherein the others node represents the non-displayed nodes;
causing display of a timeline showing the set of communications associated with the displayed nodes and the other node;
receive, from a user device, a user selection of a second criteria associated with one or more displayed nodes, the second criteria comprising a timeframe received via the timeline;
determine, based on the second criteria, a first subset of displayed nodes as emphasized nodes and a second subset of displayed nodes as de-emphasized nodes;
and
cause display, in response to the user selection and through the user interface, the first subset of displayed nodes as emphasized nodes and the second subset of displayed nodes as deemphasized nodes.

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A method in a data processing system for providing conversation graphs, the method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, a set of communications;
determining, by the computing device, a conversation graph representing conversations within the set of communications, the conversation graph including two or more nodes and one or more edges connecting pairs of the two or more nodes, wherein each given node represents a respective entity indicating one or more of a person, or a domain name, and wherein a given edge connecting a given pair of nodes represents a flow of communication between the respective entities;
determining, based on first criteria, displayed nodes and non-displayed nodes in the conversation graph, the displayed nodes each having a quantity of communications that is equal to or more than a threshold quantity of communications, and the non-displayed nodes each having a quantity of communications that is less than the threshold quantity of communications;
causing display of the conversation graph comprising the displayed nodes and an others node through a user interface, wherein the others node represents the non-displayed nodes;
causing display of a timeline showing the set of communications associated with the displayed nodes and the other node;
receiving a user selection of a first node or a first edge through the user interface;
receiving a user selection of a second node or a second edge through the user interface, wherein the second node or second edge and the first node or first edge are associated with different communications, wherein the second node or the second edge is nonadjacent to the first node or the first edge;
determine, based on the user selection of the first and second nodes, the first node and the second node as emphasized nodes and remaining displayed nodes as de-emphasized nodes;
and
causing display, through the user interface, the emphasized nodes and the de-emphasized nodes in the conversation graph.

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A computing system comprising:

a memory comprising executable instructions embodied thereon;
and
one or more hardware processors configured to execute the instructions to:
receive, by a processor, a set of communications;
determine, by the processor, a conversation graph representing conversations within the set of communications, the conversation graph including two or more nodes and one or more edges connecting pairs of the two or more nodes, wherein each given node represents a respective entity indicating one or more of a person, or a domain name, and wherein a given edge connecting a given pair of nodes represents a flow of communication between the respective entities;
determining, based on first criteria, displayed nodes and non-displayed nodes in the conversation graph, the displayed nodes each having a quantity of communications that is equal to or more than a threshold quantity of communications, and the non-displayed nodes each having a quantity of communications that is less than the threshold quantity of communications;
cause display of the conversation graph comprising the displayed nodes and an others node through a user interface, wherein the others node represents the non-displayed nodes;
cause display of a timeline showing the set of communications associated with the displayed nodes and the other node;
receive a user selection of a first node or a first edge through the user interface;
and
receive a user selection of a second node or a second edge through the user interface, wherein the second node or second edge and the first node or first edge are associated with different communications, wherein the second node or the second edge is nonadjacent to the first node or the first edge;
determine, by the processor and based on the user selection of the first and second nodes, the first node and the second node as emphasized nodes and remaining displayed nodes as de-emphasized nodes;
and
cause display, by the processor and through the user interface, the emphasized nodes and the de-emphasized nodes in the conversation graph.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.