Patent ID: 8700756

Claim:
A method of processing data, the method comprising: identifying, from email data, a set of users associated with the email data; generating a communication graph between the set of users, wherein the communication graph comprises a single center node; generating an obscured graph by removing the center node from the communication graph; determining, by a processor, a set of communities of the obscured graph; and generating a community graph by connecting the center node with a center of each of the set of communities, wherein the center node is connected to the center of each of the set of communities via a set of links and wherein a set of weights associated with the set of links is generated using an equation w ⁡ ( r , c i ) = 1  c i  ⁢ ∑ n ∈ C i ⁢ w ⁡ ( r , n ) , wherein r corresponds to the center node and C i corresponds to the set of communities.