Patent ID: 7685153

Claim:
A personal connection network analysis apparatus comprising: an event history unit that holds histories of events related to organization members; a human social relationship calculation unit that extracts from the event history unit, histories of events common to both a first member of the organization members and second members of the organization members and calculates a first human social relationship between the second members based on the extracted histories of events; a network information holding unit that holds the calculated first human social relationship as link information between a plurality of nodes to represent a personal connection network unique to the first member, the nodes being respectively indicative of the second members in the personal connection network unique to the first member; a network generation unit that extracts the link information and the plurality of nodes from the network information holding unit and forms an organizational network from the personal connection network unique to the first member by determining a strength of the nodes and a strength of the link information; and a position information detection part that detects the physical presence of the members in a room by identifying a tag carried by the members and by determining position information about the members, wherein the strength of the link information is calculated as a function of an accumulated time in which the members are physically together based on the information provided by the position information detection part, and an elapsed time from a point in time that the members were last physically together for a duration of time based on the information provided by the position information detection part.