Patent ID: 8856229

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a processor, at a server, a digital object, wherein the digital object comprises information associated with a user; extracting, by the processor, the information associated with the user from the received digital object by identifying a plurality of information segments in the received digital object; and extracting one or more information fields from the plurality of information segments; assessing, by the processor, based on the extracted information, strength of relationships between the user and a plurality of other users, each associated with one or more social networks, the strength of the relationships between the user and the plurality of other users is based on number of common attributes between the user and plurality of other users and importance of the common attributes between the user and plurality of other users as obtained from the extracted information; and adding, by the processor, the user to at least one social network based, at least in part, on the information associated with the user and the strength of the relationships between the user and a plurality of other users.