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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Peter I. Rubinstein, Westford, MA (US);

Asima Silva, Holden, MA (US);

Robert C. Weir, Westford, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30386 (2013.01); G06F 17/30861 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06Q 10/101 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, products, apparatus, and systems may provide for identifying a set of users associated with one or more collaboration artifacts. Additionally, a set of networks including a plurality of candidate social networks may be identified. Moreover, a relationship strength may be determined between the set of users associated with the one or more collaborations artifacts and each of the candidate social networks to identify one or more relevant social networks from the candidate social networks. Determining the relationship strength may include calculating a similarity metric. In addition, at least one member affiliated with the one or more relevant social networks may become aware of the collaboration artifact.


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