Automatic creation of groups based on a degree of collaboration among users

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• obtaining, by an online content management system (CMS), user interactions performed by a plurality of users in association with a plurality of content items in a shared folder, each user interaction is associated with one of a plurality of interaction types and each interaction type is assigned a weight, each of the plurality of users having been granted access to the plurality of content items of the shared folder;
• determining, for each content item, a value of user interactions segmented by interaction type;
• applying a weight to each interaction type to the value of user interactions segmented by interaction type;
• determining a collaboration value for the shared folder based on weighted frequencies of the user interactions for each content item in the shared folder;
• and
• presenting a prompt on a computing device for display to a user prompting the user to create a chat group that includes the plurality of users granted access to the plurality of content items of the shared folder in response to the collaboration value being greater than a threshold value.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing device of an online content management system to:

• obtain user interactions performed by a plurality of users in association with a plurality of content items in a shared folder, each user interaction is associated with one of a plurality of interaction types and each interaction type is assigned a weight, each of the plurality of users having been granted access to the plurality of content items of the shared folder;
• segment, for each content item in the shared folder, the user interactions by interaction type to generate a plurality of sets of user interactions, each set of user interactions corresponding to a different interaction type, each interaction type being associated with a weight corresponding a level or collaboration associated with the interaction type;
• determine, for each set of user interactions for each content item in the shared folder, a value of user interactions;
• apply the weight associated with each interaction type to the determined value of each set of user interactions to generate a set of weighted frequencies of user interactions;
• determine a collaboration value for the shared folder based on the set of weighted frequencies of user interactions for each content item in the shared folder;
• and
• display, in response to the collaboration value being greater than a threshold value, a prompt on a display screen of the computing device prompting a user to create a chat group that includes the plurality of users granted access to the plurality of content items of the shared folder.