CROWD-SOURCED CLUSTERING AND ASSOCIATION OF USER NAMES

摘要

A method include correlating, for each user among a plurality of users, between multiple different name representations appearing in multiple respective contact lists of the user. A set of user-independent name clusters is derived from the correlated name representations established over the contact lists of the plurality of the users, wherein each name cluster associates the multiple different name representations of a respective name. Information relating to one or more of the users is processed based on the user-independent name clusters.