ENTERPRISE SOCIAL GRAPH AND CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION PRESENTATION
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1. An enterprise social graph generator for generating a social graph for a user comprising:
- an enterprise data filter for receiving information from a plurality of enterprise specific data sources and for providing as an output, contact information extracted from the enterprise specific data sources in accordance with a set of policies determined in accordance with an identity of the user; and
a social graph aggregator for receiving the extracted contact information from the data filter and for creating a social graph based on connections to the extracted contacts, the graph ordered based on the proximity of each of the contacts to the user, each contact being directly connected to either the user or another contact.
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Abstract
A system for aggregating social graph information uses both social networking and social media sites as well as optional access to enterprise data so that a detailed and comprehensive social graph can be generated. The social graph information is provided to users when contextually appropriate. Other contextually appropriate information can be displayed to users as they undertake different tasks.
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1. An enterprise social graph generator for generating a social graph for a user comprising:
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an enterprise data filter for receiving information from a plurality of enterprise specific data sources and for providing as an output, contact information extracted from the enterprise specific data sources in accordance with a set of policies determined in accordance with an identity of the user; and a social graph aggregator for receiving the extracted contact information from the data filter and for creating a social graph based on connections to the extracted contacts, the graph ordered based on the proximity of each of the contacts to the user, each contact being directly connected to either the user or another contact. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10)
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9. The generator of claim 9 wherein the filter employs information from the organizational chart to user access rights to information obtained from other enterprise data sources.
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11. A method of creating a social graph for a user based on enterprise specific data, the method comprising:
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receiving enterprise based connection data; filtering the received connection data to identify connections between the user and contacts contained in the received connection data; and aggregating the identified connections to form a social graph. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A contextual information display for displaying contextual information based on metadata and social graph information, the display comprising:
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a social graph information database for receiving and storing social graph information; an external interface for receiving an indication of user focus; a processor for obtaining the indication of user focus from the external interface, for obtaining contextual information about the object of the user focus, for querying the social graph information database for social graph information relevant to the obtained contextual information and for creating a context sensitive data set for display; and a display engine for rendering the context sensitive data set on a display. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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