US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Feb. 18 for "Method and device for determining social rank of node in social network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,838, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and device for determining social rank of node in social network" was invented by Xu Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Leyu Lin (Shenzhen, China), Jing Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Kaikai Ge (Shenzhen, China), Kai Zhuang (Shenzhen, China), Xin Chen (Shenzhen, China), Wei Wang (Shenzhen, China), Su Yan (Shenzhen, China), Yudan Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Linyao Tang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for determining a social rank of a node in a social network, the social network including a plurality of nodes connected by ...