Display of user relationships
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsPatricia S. Hogan, Susan W. Brosnan
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Abstract
Information regarding each recipient of a selected group of users is retrieved, such as each recipient of a number of recipients of an email, and such as responsive to a request made in relation to the email. One or more relationships among the users are determined, based on the information retrieved regarding each user. Such relationships can include job groups, job titles, locations, and/or family relationships, among other types of relationships. The one or more relationships among the users are displayed.
Claims18
A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable code embodied therein and executable by a processor to perform a method comprising, responsive to a request from a user in relation to an email:
- retrieving information regarding each recipient of a plurality of recipients of the email;
- determining one or more relationships among the recipients of the email, based on the information retrieved regarding each recipient of the email;
- and,
- displaying the one or more relationships among the recipients of the email to the user from whom the request has been received.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a processor, identification of a selected group of users;
- retrieving, by the processor, information regarding each user;
- determining, by the processor, one or more relationships among the users, based on the information retrieved regarding each user;
- and,
- displaying, by the processor, the one or more relationships among the users.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- network hardware to communicatively connect to a storage device over a network, the storage device storing a database of information regarding a plurality of users;
- and,
- a computer-readable data storage medium storing a computer program executable by the processor to retrieve from the database information regarding a plurality of given users selected from the plurality of users, and to determine and display on a display device one or more relationships among the given users.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.