MarTech Edge Exclusive: HG Insights Granted Its First Patent

Invention identifies comparable sections of resumes and predicts which ones pertain to the same individual

December 5, 2023 – MarTech Edge has learned that Technology Intelligence leader HG Insights has recently been granted its first patent (US 11,829,386 B2). Titled ‘Identifying Anonymized Resume Corpus Data Pertaining to the Same Individual’, this invention leverages novel Machine Learning and NLP techniques to accurately group similar resume snippets together and predict which are actually the same person, despite natural changes that occur over time. Once a cluster of documents is predicted to be the same individual, many applicable use cases are then applied to the data.

These use cases include but are not limited to:

Improving granularity of technology adoption over time. To better predict based on the document cluster what technology changes have occurred based on the lineage of the documents with respect to changes referenced within the documents (i.e., changes detected over time). These subtle detections are impossible to make without this invention. The overall aggregation of technology detection for a given company over time is therefore improved.

Better predict company growth changes, department sizes, and geographical workforce shifts - over time. Using other HG Insights inventions, including Functional Area Intelligence (patent pending) - to predict departments and roles, it is now possible to reconstruct with more accuracy the shape of a company at any point in time, providing the core assets needed to go beyond simple firmographics (such as current estimated employee count).

About HG Insights

HG Insights, the provider of data-driven insights to 90% of tech companies in the Fortune 100, is your go-to-market Technology Intelligence partner.

We use advanced insights into Technology Intelligence — on IT spend, technographics, cloud usage, intent signals, Functional Area Intelligence, and contract details — to provide global B2B companies with a better way to analyze markets and target prospects. Our customers achieve unprecedented results in their marketing and sales programs thanks to the indexing of billions of unstructured documents each day with insights into product adoption, usage, spend data, and more to build high-resolution maps of activity across an organization’s entire digital infrastructure to power business decisions with precision and confidence.