Hi,
Data is in and now the fun stuff. Doing a query that is pretty hard in relational database.
My question is about getting the shortest path on a constrained pathway.
The use case case here is patents. I have one patent that is linked to another as prior art and I have created the relationship as such (the '731 is citing the '854 in patent speak). and this relationship is clearly the shortest path. There are a second set of linkages in green the are the classification codes. The classification codes in themselves also have linkages - basically a tree hierarchy. What I am interested in is finding the highest order linkage (closest branching point). The classification nodes have a label that indicates the branching level. The closest ones in this example are 14 and the meeting point is level 13. The overall path is the pink line I added to show the goal.
The relationship between patent classification code is called Is_classified and within the classification codes the relationship is called child_of.
How would I go about crafting this query? There is a follow on in that are often many classifications for each patent so I will be interested in the whole range of paths. Note: any two codes may not have a path.
A bit an aggressive problem for a newbie, but that's how I roll (fall, stumble,....)
Andy