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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2010
Swaminathan Balasubramanian, Troy, MI (US);
John H. Handy-bosma, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Brian M. O'connell, Durham, NC (US);
Keith R. Walker, Austin, TX (US);
Swaminathan Balasubramanian, Troy, MI (US);
John H. Handy-Bosma, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Brian M. O'Connell, Durham, NC (US);
Keith R. Walker, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for social network relationship mapping. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes identifying one or more terms within content displayed to a user; for each identified term: transmitting the identified term to one or more social networking servers supporting a social networking application, in response to transmitting the identified term to the social networking servers, receiving from the social networking servers a list of people that correspond with the identified term, directing a display device to display the list of people that correspond with the identified term, and in response to user input, adding an identification of a person from the list of people to a mapping clipboard; directing the display device to display a relationship graph that indicates how people identified in the mapping clipboard are connected to each other in the social networking application.