US 12,072,856 B2
Identity resolution system
Ray Jenkins, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Twillo Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Twilio Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on May 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/664,028.
Prior Publication US 2023/0376467 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/215 (2019.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 16/215 (2019.01) [G06F 16/285 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
one or more computer memories;
one or more computer processors;
a set of instructions incorporated into the one or more computer memories, the set of instructions configuring the one or more computer processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:
ingesting, by the one or more computer processors, entity data from one or more data sources;
recording, by the one or more computer processors, identity fragments observed in the entity data, each of the identity fragments representing partial information about an identity of an entity;
analyzing, by the one or more computer processors, the identity fragments to discover all identifiers that are connected across the identity fragments;
building, by the one or more computer processors, a directed graph of the identity fragments to model one or more relationships between the identity fragments; and
producing by the one or more computer processors, an entity profile by applying a set of rules to the directed graph, the set of rules specifying one or more criteria pertaining to merging of the identity fragments in the entity profile.