Method and apparatus for displaying information on personal relationship, and computer product
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorTerunobu Kume
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Abstract
An apparatus for displaying information on personal relationship include, an extracting unit that extracts pieces of metadata each including information on a person, from electronic data that includes identification information identifying each person; a linking unit that links the pieces of the metadata with each other based on co-occurrences of the identification information; a determining unit that determines strength of relationships between people in liked pieces of the metadata, based on identification information that is used by the linking unit to link the pieces of the metadata; a displaying unit that graphically displays the relationships based on the linked pieces of metadata and the strength of relationships.
Claims15
A computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a computer program for displaying personal relationship information, the computer program making a computer execute:
- extracting a plurality of pieces of metadata each including information on a person, from electronic data that includes identification information identifying each person;
- linking the pieces of the metadata with each other based on co-occurrences of the identification information;
- determining strength of each relationships between people in liked pieces of the metadata, based on identification information that is used to link the pieces of the metadata at the linking;
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- graphically displaying the relationship based on the linked pieces of metadata and the strength of relationships.
An apparatus for displaying information on personal relationship, comprising:
- an extracting unit configured to extract a plurality of pieces of metadata each including information on a person, from electronic data that includes identification information identifying each person;
- a linking unit configured to link the pieces of the metadata with each other based on co-occurrences of the identification information;
- a determining unit configured to determine strength of relationships between people in liked pieces of the metadata, based on identification information that is used by the linking unit to link the pieces of the metadata;
- and
- a displaying unit configured to graphically display the relationships based on the linked pieces of metadata and the strength of relationships.
A method of displaying personal relationship information, comprising:
- extracting a plurality of pieces of metadata each including information on a person, from electronic data that includes identification information identifying each person;
- linking the pieces of the metadata with each other based on co-occurrences of the identification information;
- determining strength of each relationships between people in liked pieces of the metadata, based on identification information that is used to link the pieces of the metadata at the linking;
- and
- graphically displaying the relationship based on the linked pieces of metadata and the strength of relationships.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.