IDENTIFYING AND CONTEXTUALIZING INDIVIDUALS IN AN ORGANIZATION

摘要

An identification and contextualization system comprising a contextualizing engine is provided. The contextualizing engine comprises various components that are operable to analyze an information item related to a user for identifying one or more individuals associated with the information item, and interrogate a graph structure for determining whether each of the one or more individuals associated with the information item is someone whom the user has met or has worked with based on edges and weights stored in the graph structure. When an individual who is associated with the information item is identified, the contextualizing engine is further operable to discover contextual information associated with the individual, and generate an information element surfacing the contextual information associated with the individual for display to the user.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for identifying and contextualizing an individual in an organization, comprising:
identifying one or more individuals associated with an information item relating to a user; querying an organizational graph for activity data associated with the user and each of the one or more individuals; based on the activity data, determining whether the user has an association with each of the one or more individuals; in response to determination that the user does not have an association with an individual:
querying the organizational graph for activity data associated with the individual for discovering contextual information associated with the individual; andgenerating a visual information element for display to the user, the visual information element comprising contextual information associated with the individual.