Determining implicit social networking relationships and organization

摘要

A method is provided 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; 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.