Expandable data object management and indexing architecture for intersystem data exchange compatibility

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10922356-B2
Application number	US-201916367038-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 27, 2019
Priority date	Mar 27, 2019
Publication date	Feb 16, 2021
Grant date	Feb 16, 2021

Abstract

A group-based communication platform is configured to ascertain the relatedness of various work objects shared among users of the group-based communication platform. Moreover, the group-based communication platform may further receive and process work objects originating from non-users of the group-based communication platform, thereby further expanding the utility of the determined relatedness between work objects. These work objects (or encrypted representations of these work objects) may be indexed and stored in association with the group-based communication platform, thereby enabling users to search for and retrieve work objects originating from a plurality of work object sources simultaneously, and based on various characteristics of those work objects and the determined interrelatedness between various work objects.

First claim

That which is claimed:

1. A group-based communication platform configured for generating a work graph based on one or more work objects, the group-based communication platform comprising:
one or more memory storage areas; and
one or more processors collectively configured to:
intake one or more work objects from a validated external resource for distribution to one or more client devices via at least one of one or more group-based communication channels, wherein the one or more work objects comprise metadata and body content data;
determine a work object type for each of the one or more objects;
extract work object data from each of the one or more work objects, wherein the work object data extracted from each of the one or more work objects is identified based at least in part on the work object type, and wherein the work object data is extracted from the metadata and the body content data;
identify, based at least in part on the work object data, relationships established via each of the one or more work objects; and
establish, based at least in part on the relationships established via each of the one or more work objects; a work graph data structure interrelating one or more work objects shared via the group-based communication platform.

2. The group-based communication platform of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to identify, based at least in part on the metadata and the content data, one or more topics assigned to each of the one or more work objects.

3. The group-based communication platform of claim 2 , wherein identifying one or more topics assigned to each of the one or more work objects comprises analyzing the metadata and the body content data of each of the one or more work objects using a term-frequency, inverse-document frequency analysis to identify relevant terms to be assigned as topics to each of the one or more work objects.

4. The group-based communication platform of claim 1 , wherein identifying relationships established via each of the one or more work objects comprises at least one of:
identifying a plurality of user identifiers associated with each of the one or more work objects and identifying relationships among the plurality of user identifiers associated with each of the one or more work objects, and wherein establishing the work graph data structure comprises interrelating user identifiers based at least in part on relationships established via the one or more work objects;
identifying a plurality of channel identifiers associated with each of the one or more work objects and identifying relationships among the plurality of channel identifiers associated with each of the one or more work objects, and wherein establishing the work graph data structure comprises interrelating channel identifiers based at least in part on relationships established via the one or more work objects; or
identifying a plurality of topics associated with each of the one or more work objects and identifying relationships among the plurality of topics associated with each of the one or more work objects, and wherein establishing the work graph data structure comprises interrelating topics based at least in part on relationships established via the one or more work objects.

5. The group-based communication platform of claim 1 , wherein the work graph establishes relationships among a plurality of work objects of different work object types.

6. The group-based communication platform of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to intake one or more work objects received from one or more client devices for distribution via the group-based communication platform.

7. The group-based communication platform of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to execute a query function based at least in part on a query request received from a client device of the one or more client devices, wherein the query function comprises:
querying work objects based at least in part on the query request;
ranking one or more work objects based on relevance to the query request and based on relatedness between work objects as established within the work graph; and
transmitting cache objects to the requesting client device indicative of the ranked work objects identified from the querying.

8. The group-based communication platform of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to generate a neural network for executing a search query based at least in part on the work graph.

9. A computer-implemented method for generating a work graph based on one or more work objects, the method comprising:
intaking one or more work objects from a validated external resource for distribution to one or more client devices via at least one of one or more group-based communication channels, wherein the one or more work objects comprise metadata and body content data;
determining a work object type for each of the one or more objects;
extracting work object data from each of the one or more work objects, wherein the work object data extracted from each of the one or more work objects is identified based at least in part on the work object type, and wherein the work object data is extracted from the metadata and the body content data;
identifying, based at least in part on the work object data, relationships established via each of the one or more work objects; and
establishing, based at least in part on the relationships established via each of the one or more work objects; a work graph data structure interrelating one or more work objects shared via a group-based communication platform.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , further comprising identifying, based at least in part on the metadata and the content data, one or more topics assigned to each of the one or more work objects.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein identifying one or more topics assigned to each of the one or more work objects comprises analyzing the metadata and the body content data of each of the one or more work objects using a term-frequency, inverse-document frequency analysis to identify relevant terms to be assigned as topics to each of the one or more work objects.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein identifying relationships established via each of the one or more work objects comprises at least one of:
identifying a plurality of user identifiers associated with each of the one or more work objects and identifying relationships among the plurality of user identifiers associated with each of the one or more work objects, and wherein establishing the work graph data structure comprises interrelating user identifiers based at least in part on relationships established via the one or more work objects;
identifying a plurality of channel identifiers associated with each of the one or more work objects and identifying relationships among the plurality of channel identifiers associated with each of the one or more work objects, and wherein establishing the work graph data structure comprises interrelating channel identifiers based at least in part on relationships established via the one or more work objects; or
identifying a plurality of topics associated with each of the one or more work objects and identifying relationships among the plurality of topics associated with each of the one or more work objects, and wherein establishing the work graph data structure comprises interrelating topics based at least in part on relationships established via the one or more work objects.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the work grap

Assignees

• Slack Tech Inc

Inventors

• Wahl Matthew
• Florin Hubert
• Schemers Roland
• Elliott Brian
• Han Lydia
• Mcphail James

Classifications

• H04L51/56

  Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM] · CPC title

• H04L51/214

  using selective forwarding · CPC title

• G06F16/90335

  Query processing · CPC title

• G06F16/901 Primary

  Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures (for retrieval from the web G06F16/951) · CPC title

• H04L65/1096

  Supplementary features, e.g. call forwarding or call holding (systems providing special services or facilities to telephony subscribers H04M3/42) · CPC title