Determining implicit social networking relationships and organization
OwnerJulian Gay, Dominic Lee +1inventors
InventorsJulian Gay, Dominic Lee, Pylyp Nuzhnyi
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Abstract
A method is provided for determining an existence or strength of a relationship between a first and a second user of a storage database having first user documents owned by the first user and second user documents owned by the second user stored in the storage database. The method includes: comparing the first user documents with the second user documents and creating a degree of similarity measure for the documents based on the comparing; and determining the existence or strength of the relationship between the first and second users based on the degree of similarity measure for the documents.
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A method for determining an existence or strength of a relationship between a first and a second user of a storage database comprising first user documents owned by the first user and second user documents owned by the second user stored in the storage database, the method comprising:
- comparing the first user documents with the second user documents and creating a degree of similarity measure for the documents based on the comparing;
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- determining the existence or strength of the relationship between the first and second users based on the degree of similarity measure for the documents.
A method for determining an existence or strength of a first relationship between a first and a second user, a second relationship between the first and a third user, and a third relationship between the second user and the third user of a storage database comprising first user documents owned by the first user, second user documents owned by the second user, and third user documents owned by the third user stored in the storage database, the method comprising:
- comparing the first user documents with the third user documents and creating a first degree of similarity measure for the documents based on the comparing;
- comparing the second user documents with the third user documents and creating a second degree of similarity measure for the documents based on the comparing;
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- determining the existence or strength of the first, the second relationship, and the third relationship based on the first degree of similarity measure for the documents and the second degree of similarity measure for the documents.
A system for determining an existence or strength of a relationship between a first and a second user of a storage database comprising first user documents owned by the first user and second user documents owned by the second user stored in the storage database, comprising:
- a comparing algorithm running on a processor of a broker computer that compares the first user documents with the second user documents and creating a degree of similarity measure for the documents based on the comparing;
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- a determining algorithm that determines the existence or strength of the relationship between the first and second users based on the degree of similarity measure for the documents.
A non-transitory computer usable medium comprising computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed by a processor to implement a method for determining an existence or strength of a relationship between a first and a second user of a storage database comprising first user documents owned by the first user and second user documents owned by the second user stored in the storage database, the method comprising:
- comparing with the processor the first user documents with the second user documents and creating a degree of similarity measure for the documents based on the comparing;
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- determining the existence or strength of the relationship between the first and second users based on the degree of similarity measure for the documents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.