System and method to enable communication group identification

摘要

Methods, system and computer readable medium for discovering social groups include extracting activity related data associated with a user's social interactions from a source. The activity related data identifies information related to social contacts used during the social interactions at the source. The activity related data of the user is analyzed to identify co-occurrences of the social contacts. The co-occurrences determine a set of related contacts. The set of related contacts identified from the activity related data are clustered into distinct social groups. The social groups are used by a user to facilitate subsequent interactions.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for discovering social groups, comprising:
extracting activity related data associated with a user's social interactions from a source, by a processor, the activity related data identifying information related to social contacts used in the social interactions; analyzing the activity related data of the user, by the processor, to identify co-occurrences of the social contacts in the social interactions, wherein the co-occurrences determine sets of related contacts, the analysis further determines relative affiliation strength of social link for each of the social contacts within each set of related contacts; and clustering the sets of related contacts identified from the activity related data to generate distinct social groups, by the processor, wherein a sequence of social contacts in each of the generated social groups are in accordance to the affiliation strength of each social contact within the respective social groups, the social groups used to facilitate subsequent social interactions, wherein when a particular social contact appears in more than one social group, clustering includes associating a tag derived from context of the activity related data to distinctly identify each of the social groups in which the particular social contact appears, each social contact in the respective social groups associated with an indicator that is indicative of affiliation strength within the social group, the indicator providing a visual cue of the affiliation strengths associated with the social contacts within the social group.