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20100063934 | Travel Planning for Social Networks - A method and system is described for providing a traveler with the ability to query an electronic social network for travel related information. The traveler, and related individuals, enter future travel plans into the system. The traveler leverages this information by querying the system to determine which related individuals will be at the same travel location for a future date. The traveler is also able to query the system to determine when next a related individual will be at a particular location. The travel can also query the system to determine where related individuals will be for a future date. | 03-11-2010 |
20100088246 | SYSTEM FOR, AND METHOD OF, MANAGING A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system for, and method of, managing multiple communications between a plurality of users in a social network wherein a first user sends a request to initiate a communication exchange with a second user. The system restricts the maximum number of pending unanswered requests by a user. The system encourages selectivity in solicitation. | 04-08-2010 |
20100100492 | SHARING TRANSACTION INFORMATION IN A COMMERCE NETWORK - A computerized method and system for creating and maintaining a commerce network data structure are provided. Example embodiments may include receiving transaction information related to a business relationship between a first user and a business entity. The business relationship between the first user and the business entity may be verified using the transaction information. A commerce network data structure may be created. The commerce network data structure may include a link between a first node and a second node. The first node may represent the first user, the second node may represent the business entity, and the link may represent the business relationship. A communication including a request for the transaction information related to the business relationship may be received from the second user. Responsive to the receiving of the communication, the commerce network data structure may be accessed to automatically provide the second user with the transaction information. | 04-22-2010 |
20100100493 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL HEALTH TRACKING - A method and apparatus for providing social health tracking over one or more communication networks are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request from a customer for a communication service having a social health tracking feature, and gathers data on one or more interactions for the customer. The method updates a statistical model for the one or more interactions for the customer over a period of time, and determines a social health status for the customer from the statistical model. | 04-22-2010 |
20100100494 | DETERMINATION OF PATHS BETWEEN ENTITIES IN A MULTI-RELATIONSHIP SOCIAL NETWORK - Some aspects include determination of a source entity and a target entity from a plurality of entities, wherein a first one of the plurality of entities is associated with a second one of the plurality of entities by a first type of social relationship and a third one of the plurality of entities is associated with a fourth one of the plurality of entities by a second type of social relationship, and determination of a shortest path through the plurality of entities from the source entity to the target entity. | 04-22-2010 |
20100100495 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SELF-ADVERTISING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A method of self-advertising via a social network accessible through a global computer network comprises creating a plurality of user accounts, each of the user accounts corresponding to one of the plurality of users, and having a plurality of uploadable features including a first feature permitting the user to upload at least one advertisable characteristic to a user account, forming a user network including one or more of the plurality of user accounts in communication with one or more other user accounts, identifying each of the plurality of user accounts containing the at least one advertisable characteristic, linking each of the plurality of user accounts containing the at least one advertisable characteristic, and notifying each of the plurality of user accounts containing the at least one advertisable characteristic of the identity of the other of the plurality of user accounts containing the at least one advertisable characteristic. | 04-22-2010 |
20100114787 | Internet based personality and compatibility profiling through handwriting analysis - Described herein is a method and system for identifying compatibility traits and corresponding levels of compatibility by trait through handwriting analysis. Subscribers or users of the profiling and dating service will take an internet based (online) handwriting analysis personality and compatibility test. Once the user completes the handwriting analysis test, they will instantaneously receive personality and compatibility information about themselves. The user will then have the opportunity to invite other friends, family members, significant others, dates, acquaintances, or any other individual to take the internet based handwriting analysis personality and compatibility test. Upon completion of the internet based handwriting analysis personality and compatibility test by the inviter and the invitee, instantaneous personality and compatibility comparison information will be displayed. | 05-06-2010 |
20100114788 | Cross-Network Social Networking Application Architecture - Particular embodiments of the present invention are directed to providing an application programming interface allowing developers to create a single version of a social networking application configured to execute on more than one social network, wherein such execution may be customized with respect to each particular social network in which the social networking application may execute. The same or alternative embodiments may also provide an application programming interface for saving and/or retrieving social networking application data in and/or from a common data store, allowing aggregation of data specific to the cross-network social networking application such that the data is available across multiple social networks. | 05-06-2010 |
20100125530 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED QUESTIONS FOR MATCHING IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - An apparatus for providing a feature in a network environment is provided that includes a central web site operable to interface with one or more end users and to manage information related to one or more of the end users. The central web site includes a set of questions for one or more of the end users to complete, whereby the central web site is operable to display a comparison of answers for the questions that are submitted by a first end user and a second end user. | 05-20-2010 |
20100145869 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE MATCHING PROCESS IN AN ONLINE DATING SYSTEM - A method for controlling the matching process in an online dating system is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a method, performed by a computer for operating a matching service, the method including receiving information identifying preferences for a mate from at least one user, receiving demographic information of the at least one user, the demographic information including a gender of the at least one user, providing first services, when the at least one user is male, for matching the at least one user with a mate, and providing second services, when the at least one user is female, for matching the at least one user with a mate, where the first services are not identical to the second services. | 06-10-2010 |
20100153283 | ELECTRONIC PROFESSIONAL MENTORING FRAMEWORK - Mentoring relationships between mentors and protégés can be established within mentoring data that conforms to standards of a mentoring framework. For each mentoring relationship, a mentoring path can be established. Each mentoring path can include a set of defined phases, each phase having a bounded beginning and ending, each phase further including at least one goal, at least one activity completion of which marks a progression towards achieving an associated goal, and timelines associated with at least one of the activities. Interactive user interfaces can be presented upon network attached client devices to users assigned a mentoring role who participate in at least one mentoring relationship for which the mentoring data is maintained. Performance input can be received via the interactive user interfaces, which results in the mentoring data being updated. “Web 2.0-style” techniques can be leveraged to gather rating and access information associated with content or electronic assets, thereby augmenting “conventional” approaches that rate only the delivery of the mentorship relationship itself A progression along the mentoring path can be changed based upon the updated mentoring data. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153284 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO USE AN AGGREGATED CONTACT LIST FOR SHARING ONLINE INFORMATION - The present invention provides methods and systems for using an aggregated contact list for sharing online information. In one embodiment, an event forum is provided with a connection link to enable a user to retrieve contacts from one or more online social or messaging networks. Upon the user providing authentication credentials to login to the one or more online social or messaging networks, an aggregating service retrieves the user's contacts from each of the networks. In one embodiment, the contacts from all the networks are presented as an aggregated list, allowing the user to select one or more contacts to send a message related to the event forum. In one embodiment, the aggregating service creates a landing web page specific to the message transmitted by the user. In some instances, the landing web page enables the user and the contacts to exchange messages. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153285 | INTEGRATION OF NEWS INTO DIRECT SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERACTIONS - The integration of news about members of a group into symmetrical group communications is described. Group members are delivered news items and information regarding members of the group, and are able to communicate with other members of the group in response to the news items. One embodiment dynamically generates aggregated RSS news feeds for a group of people or entities and correlates that aggregated data with biographical information, audio, and video media to provide rich information about the relevant parties to the news story. The embodiment also provides the capability of transmitting email or other electronic messages to the parties in the news story to facilitate two-way communication while maintaining the group members' privacy and anonymity. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153286 | Electronic Contact and Media Distribution System - An electronic information distribution system, and methods of use are disclosed. The system includes an attendee handheld computing device and an exhibitor data exchange system including an exhibitor computing device and a wireless communication unit. The system also includes a database configured to contain database records, the database records including database records related to an owner of the attendee handheld computing device and database records related to a registered user of the exhibitor data exchange system. The attendee handheld computing device is configured to exchange information with the wireless communication unit via a wireless communications link, thereby forming a link in the database between at least one record related to the owner of the attendee handheld computing device and at least one record related to the registered user of the exhibitor data exchange system. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153287 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO TRANSITION A PERSON FROM DIAGNOSIS TO WELLNESS - A system and method that guides patients, caregivers and supporters or individuals as they confront, and endeavor to overcome, a serious health crisis or major life transition. The system facilitates the reduction of the overwhelming psychological nature of the diagnosis event by compartmentalizing it into manageable phases, based on distance from diagnosis, enabling a patient to overcome and quickly envision their first step toward wellbeing. The system then facilitates the building of an online community and social media network, using templates to help patients, caregivers, or supporters and individuals set goals and acquire community wisdom, that leverages the unique nature of the phases, from diagnosis to treatment to recovery to wellness. The system automatically transforms the templates into a printed chronological journal that serves as an organizer, note and record keeper, medical communication tool, and a progressive documentation of the patient, caregiver, supporter or individual's story. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153288 | COLLABORATIVE CAREER DEVELOPMENT - A method and computer program product for candidate-position matching may comprise defining for a candidate, via at least one of a client electronic device and a server computer, a candidate skill level for a predefined skill A skill match metric for the candidate may be determined, based upon, at least in part, the candidate skill level and a desired candidate skill level. The skill match metric for the candidate may be outputted. | 06-17-2010 |
20100174662 | COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING AND MANAGING INNOVATIONS - A system and process for collaborating members of a network. A generation module facilitates the submission of ideas by the members of the network. A development module facilitates the members of the network to provide input to develop the ideas submitted via the generation module. An evaluation module facilitates the members of the network to provide input to evaluate the ideas developed via the development module. An implementation module facilitates the members of the network to implement the ideas evaluated via the evaluation module. The process comprises the phases of submitting ideas by the members of the network; developing by the members of the submitted ideas; evaluating by the members the developed ideas; and implementing by at least one of the members the evaluated ideas. | 07-08-2010 |
20100179915 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING A PLURALITY OF FEEDS - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for aggregating a plurality of feeds automatically without explicitly designing or developing an aggregated feed. In one embodiment, a collaboration module defines a collaboration group of one or more members with each member having an online relationship to each other. A definition module defines a feed tag protocol that members of the collaboration group agree to follow for marking content feeds. An aggregation module receives an aggregated feed request and retrieves a set of feeds tagged by members of the collaboration group that satisfy the aggregated feed request. The aggregation module also generates a single aggregated feed based on the set of feeds that satisfy the feed tag protocol. | 07-15-2010 |
20100179916 | CAREER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a career management system comprising a module enabling the user of the system to prepare a career profile and comprising a processor enabling the system to learn and provide targeted information to the user and to link the user with other users and user groups. The career management system is software-based and enables the user to communicate with the system and with other users via a computer network. | 07-15-2010 |
20100198741 | DESIGNATING PRIORITY FOR CHARACTERISTICS OF VITALITY EVENTS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A social networking system is configured to enable users in the system to prioritize vitality events in their respective vitality streams. For instance, a user may designate that at least one specified prioritization action is to be performed for any vitality event having one or more characteristic(s) specified by the user. Accordingly, when a vitality event having the one or more specified characteristic(s) is associated with the user, the at least one specified prioritization action is performed with respect to that vitality event. | 08-05-2010 |
20100198742 | Online Social Encountering - A method for online social encountering includes obtaining identity information regarding a user of an online encounter service, and sending to a presence server, online presence information regarding the user. The method also includes receiving from the presence server, online presence information regarding one or more friends of the user that are visiting a website that the user is also visiting. If the user and the one or more friends indicate a desire to interact, an interaction between the user and the one or more friends is initiated. | 08-05-2010 |
20100211514 | COLLABORATIVE CONTENT EVALUATION - In an example embodiment, a system for determining respective reputation values for a users of a network-based community is provided. The respective reputation values may be based on a user attribute associated with the user. The system may comprise a processor-implemented reputation component configured to determine respective reputation values for one or more users of a network-based community. Additionally included is a processor-implemented reporting component configured to receive a communication from the user identifying content as objectionable within the network-based community. The system also includes a processor-implemented evaluation component configured to evaluate the identified content based on the respective reputation values of the user to determine an action to take with respect to the content. Additionally included is a processor-implemented validation component configured to remove identified content from publication based on the respective reputation values transgressing a threshold value. | 08-19-2010 |
20100217720 | IDENTIFYING USERS FOR EFFECTIVE PROPAGATION OF CONTENT - Content may be effectively virally propagated using an arrangement that identifies prolific Internet users who are likely to share content more often and with more people. These users are termed “connectors” because they typically function as a common link between disparate groups and will thus be the center point of a large social graph. Connectors are valuable to identify because content that is received by them can be expected to propagate more quickly as compared with propagation by other users who are not connectors. Users of on-line applications (such as social networking applications) who have the greatest probability of being connectors are identified by the application of heuristics to data that pertains to the users. | 08-26-2010 |
20100217721 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLOCKING OBJECTIONABLE COMMUNICATIONS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system and method blocks objectionable communications in a social network. A first user of the social network determines when communications from a second user to the first user that are displayed and viewed by third party users of the social network are objectionable. In response, the first user blocks further display of communications from the second user to the first user that were intended by the second user to be displayed and viewed by third party users of the social network. | 08-26-2010 |
20100217722 | Mutual Interest Inferencing System and Method - A method and system for generating, revealing, and delivering explanations of computer-based inferences of expected levels of interest between people is described. The inferences may be based, at least in part, on behavioral information. The method and system may include variations of a mutual commitment process that only reveals a first party's inferred or expressed interest in a second party if a reciprocal inferred or expressed interest is confirmed. | 08-26-2010 |
20100241579 | Feed Content Presentation - Feed content presentation techniques are described. In an implementation, data from a plurality of feeds of data is aggregated. The data that is aggregated may include an attribute that describes the data and is associated with a member of a social network service. The data is filtered for presentation based on one or more of a user context associated with a member that is to consume the presentation when the data is requested or a particular attribute of the data selected by a member that is to consume the presentation. | 09-23-2010 |
20100241580 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTING A RELEVANT USER FOR INTRODUCTION TO A USER IN AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods of selecting a relevant user for introduction to a user in an online environment are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of receiving a request to identify the relevant user to be introduced to the participating user in the social network, identifying a set of social history records that occurred among the multiple users in the social network, selecting, from the multiple users, the relevant user to be introduced to the participating user using the set of social history records. The relevant user that is selected is not a social connection of the participating user in the social network. One embodiment includes, determining whether the participating user is interested in meeting the relevant user in the social network based on an indication made by the participating user via interaction with the user device. | 09-23-2010 |
20100250458 | CONTENT BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A content based social networking system and method are provided in which multiple users can interact with each other using pieces of digital content. | 09-30-2010 |
20100262550 | INTER-CORPORATE COLLABORATION OVERLAY SOLUTION FOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS - A service provider includes a broker. The broker receives a request from a business organization requester for one or more potential collaborators in a determined subject matter area; accesses one or more personal profiles maintained by one or more social network services; selects a subset of individuals described in the accessed profiles as being of potential interest to the requester; and provides to the requestor information describing the members of the subset of individuals. | 10-14-2010 |
20100262551 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL COATING PROJECT PURCHASE - A method for selecting and purchasing a coating includes: selecting a desired color, comparing the desired color to a database of coating compositions to identify a coating composition having a color substantially matching the desired color, evaluating the suitability of the identified coating composition, and purchasing the identified coating composition. An apparatus for implementing the method is also provided. | 10-14-2010 |
20100268655 | Social Capital - Systems and methods for receiving social network membership information from a user, receiving social networking information for the user, and determining a social capital for the user, wherein the social capital is at least partially based on the social network membership information and the social networking information. | 10-21-2010 |
20100268656 | Method and Apparatus for Arranging Face-to-Face Meetings - Individuals, couples, and families subscribe to a community for facilitating the arrangement of their outings and social meetings. Subscribers fill in wish-lists to specify their level of interest in specific attractions, in getting together with specific other subscribers, and in arranging their specific schedules for outings. An encounter generator processes the subscriber wish-lists to identify matches of subscribers who are interested in the same attraction, who favor each other's company, and who are free at the same time. The system notifies the matched subscribers, optionally offering ticketing and/or reservation assistance. Partial matches are optionally referred to the respective subscribers for negotiating the unmatched schedule or attraction. The system is adaptable to serve singles who wish to identify and get to know a prospective mate through mutual visits to attractions, as well as individuals, couples, and families who want to go out with their existing friends or make new friends. | 10-21-2010 |
20100280965 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTUITIVE MANAGEMENT OF PRIVACY SETTINGS - An approach is provided for intuitive management of privacy settings, which includes receiving data that indicates a contact radius and an information radius. The contact radius is related to how socially close a contact is to a user who is registered with a network service. The information radius is related to how private the information about the user is. In response to a request from the contact for information about the user, information about the user is provided, which has an information radius value in a range that is based on a value of the contact radius associated with the contact. | 11-04-2010 |
20100280966 | Emissions Trading of Travel Avoidance Through Online Web Conferencing - Online web conferencing methods implemented in an information handling system are provided that determine and display various air emission savings and allowances that result from foregoing physical transportation of users on account of meeting by online web conferences. The air emission allowances generated by the methods herein may be traded in climate exchange markets as desired. Reports may be generated that summarize the quantities determined by the models of the embodiments disclosed herein. | 11-04-2010 |
20100287109 | Linking Software Users Sharing Common Traits - A method for the establishing of connections between software users based on a pattern of use and/or a characteristic of content related to the users and the software. The interaction of a software user with the software is monitored and a characteristic of content related to the user and the software is determined. When the user needs customer support, he or she is routed to a fellow user of the same software who is capable of providing help. The helping user is selected based on the way in which the first user interacts with the software and/or the characteristic of content related to the first user and the software. | 11-11-2010 |
20100293104 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING SOCIAL COMMUNICATION - To facilitate social interaction through chat rooms, described are a system and a method for identifying and/or creating chat rooms that correspond to an operational context of a user's electronic device. Various conditions may be monitored and evaluated to identify a correlation between the states of two conditions. Upon such identification, a search may be made for a corresponding chat room. If a corresponding chat room is found, an offer to enter the chat room may be offered to the user. If a corresponding chat room is not identified, the user may be offered an opportunity to create a chat room for a topic corresponding to the correlating conditions. | 11-18-2010 |
20100293105 | SOCIAL NETWORKING UPDATES FOR IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICES - A web-based update service is arranged to collect data from online social networking services (and other applications and services) to keep users informed and up to date with the activities of their social networking contacts (and up to date on data from other services) by processing the collected data into an update for display in a format that is consumable by non-interactive and low-interactive display devices that have relatively limited rendering capabilities. The data collected from the applications may be stored, parsed, and categorized so that it can be bundled into an update that is responsive to the user's input and preferences. The service transcodes the content in the update into the proper format required for display on the device. The update can be directly delivered to the display device over a network connection if the device is equipped with a network interface, or via an intermediary device like a networked personal computer. | 11-18-2010 |
20100299275 | CONTENT-BASED SOCIAL COMPUTING - A system and method for social computing distribute a message from an author to one or more subscribers as a function of the content of the message. In an embodiment, the content of a message is related to a meta-tag. In another embodiment, the author of a message is associated with a group of people which are of interest to the subscribers. In another embodiment, the transmitted messages can be based on the subject matter of content that is associated with a subscriber. | 11-25-2010 |
20100299276 | INVITATIONS WITH PRE-POPULATED PROFILE INFORMATION - Tools and techniques related to invitations with pre-populated profile information are provided. These tools may receive requests to create invitations for invitee users to join social networks, populate these invitations with profile information on behalf of at least one inviter user, and send these invitations to the invitee users. | 11-25-2010 |
20100299277 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND ENHANCING MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS - The present invention provides methods, devices, and systems for enhancing the dissemination of information throughout an organization, and more particularly to developing meaningful mentoring relationships within such an organization. Tools are provided that allow mentors and learners to define their current traits as well as relationship goals and, based on those defined traits and goals, locate valuable learners/mentors. | 11-25-2010 |
20100306119 | Forming Dynamic Real-Time Activity Groups - Techniques for forming a real-time activity group are provided. The techniques include creating a set of one or more users, annotating each user in the set with one or more corresponding real-time attributes, and using the one or more real-time attributes to identify one or more connections between the one or more users in the set to form a real-time activity group within the set of one or more users, wherein the one or more connections are based on an activity request. | 12-02-2010 |
20100306120 | ONLINE MERCHANDISING AND ECOMMERCE WITH VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATION OF AN ACTUAL RETAIL LOCATION - An online merchandising and promotion system is disclosed that closely simulates an interior space of an actual place of business in a virtual reality world. As consumers use avatars to explore the simulated space, they become simultaneously familiar with both the simulated and actual places of business, and thereafter can shop at both locations with equal ease. Previous familiarity with the actual place of business can motivate a consumer to visit the corresponding simulated location. In preferred embodiments, users can purchase virtual and/or real goods at the simulated place of business. Some simulated spaces enable avatars to socialize with each other, thereby prolonging their shopping and/or their exposure to advertising. In various embodiments, avatars can work to earn money, and/or avatars can earn virtual money by making real money purchases. Avatars can also gain status, and can compete with each other based on wealth, virtual possessions, and/or status. | 12-02-2010 |
20100306121 | SELLING AND DELIVERING REAL GOODS AND SERVICES WITHIN A VIRTUAL REALITY WORLD - An ecommerce system is claimed that enables users to purchase real-world consumables within a virtual reality world, and then to immediately receive and consume the real-world consumables without leaving the virtual reality world. Users purchase and consume consumables such as movies, TV shows, lectures, books, magazines, consultations with advisors, psychic readings, and horoscopes, by controlling actions of avatars within the virtual world. In some embodiments, an avatar can earn virtual money by purchasing real-world consumables, and can use the virtual money to purchase additional real and/or virtual consumables. In other embodiments, avatars can earn virtual and/or real money by working in the virtual reality world. In various embodiments avatars can gain status, and can receive rewards based on status, such as access to special locations in the virtual world. And in some embodiments, avatars can compete with each other based on relative wealth, virtual possessions, and/or status. | 12-02-2010 |
20100306122 | System and Method for Providing an Electronic Literature Club in a Network Environment - A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving progress data associated with an end user reading an electronic piece of literature and receiving a request from the end user to interact with an additional end user about the electronic piece of literature. The method can further include identifying the additional end user who is also reading the electronic piece of literature in order to form a reading group associated with the electronic piece of literature. In more specific embodiments, the identifying further includes identifying progress data for the additional end user such that the reading group is formed of the end users who are at a similar location in the electronic piece of literature. | 12-02-2010 |
20100312714 | MULTI-FACET PROFILE CREATION, MANAGEMENT AND SHARING OVER SOCIAL NETWORKS - There is provided a method for customizing a relationship between members of a social network based on a multi-facet member profile, the method comprising: receiving profile data associated with a member; segregating at least a part of the profile data into a plurality of identifiable profile facets, and storing data records associated therewith in a multi-facet profile database; receiving from the member relationship parameters comprising: an identification of at least one other member of the social network, an identification of at least one profile facet among the identifiable profile facets, and sharing parameters defining access privileges to the at least one profile facet by the at least one other member; and based on the relationship parameters, storing in a relationship database data records allowing for determining, for each one of the at least one other member, access privileges associated with each one of the at least one profile facet. There is also provided a system for customizing a relationship between members of a social network based on a multi-facet member profile and a system for managing sharing of information over a social network. | 12-09-2010 |
20100325057 | LEVERAGING SOCIAL CAPITAL ON A WEBSITE - The described techniques relate to leveraging social capital associated with a user's profile on a website. In some implementations, a framework can be provided that includes a protected space associated with the user's profile on a social networking website. The protected space can be configured to allow verified indicia of the social capital to be posted thereon. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325058 | Organizational Network System and Method - Techniques for organizational networking for improving efficiency of organizations at performing various organizational tasks are disclosed. A method of organizational networking automatically updates content in an organizational network based on roles of members within an organizational hierarchy. A technique for creating a new subnetwork based on hierarchies associated with existing organizational subnetworks is also disclosed. An advertising engine distributes ads from a partner entity to members of an organization by way of another member of the organization to avoid direct transmission of third party marketing materials to members. A single electronic calendar is provided for an entire organization and may be updated and shared with other organizations automatically based on roles of members. Techniques disclosed herein increase efficiency for organizations and usability of networking tools for members. | 12-23-2010 |
20100332405 | METHOD FOR ASSESSING REPUTATION OF INDIVIDUAL - A business networking system that allows for the assessment of candidates by reviewers, such that the assessments are weighted based on characteristics of the reviewer. | 12-30-2010 |
20110004561 | Contact Information Aggregation - Techniques are described to aggregate contact information. In an implementation, contact information that is associated with a single user and that is obtained from a plurality of services via a network is aggregated. A least one of the services is configured as a social networking service. A user interface is configured to include at least a portion of the aggregated contact information such that the single user is represented above the portion of the aggregated contact information in the user interface. | 01-06-2011 |
20110010305 | Information Aggregation Service - Information aggregation techniques are described. In an implementation, a communication is received that includes an indication of a source of information associated with a non-member of the social network. Information associated with the non-member is aggregated from the source. The aggregation may be performed in response to receipt of a selection by a member of the social network service to interact with the information from the source. The aggregated information may then be presented to a member in conjunction with webpages output for interaction with the social network. | 01-13-2011 |
20110022528 | Method and system for transmitting information via a plurality of different formats - A method for transmitting a plurality of related data items by a plurality of different formats includes assigning a unique identifier to a plurality of related data items stored on web server. The method further includes a transmitter receiving the unique identifier from a browser function and retrieving the plurality of related data items from the web server storing the unique identifier and the plurality of related data items. The transmitter formats the plurality of related data items into at least one of the different transmission formats and transmits the plurality of related data items by the formats selected by the user. In one embodiment, the browser function is a bookmarklet having the function of sending the unique identifier to the transmitter. In another embodiment, the plurality of related data items is information related to a job opportunity and the unique identifier is a job identifier. In one such embodiment, the plurality of different transmission methods includes job boards, email campaigns, key word advertising campaigns and social networking sites. | 01-27-2011 |
20110022529 | SOCIAL NETWORK CREATION USING IMAGE RECOGNITION - A method for dynamically creating a social network using image recognition may include performing image recognition analysis on an image and determining selected information based on the image recognition analysis. A new social network may then be created from the selected information. | 01-27-2011 |
20110040693 | WEBSITE INCLUDING BID FILTERING - Systems and methods for improving social networking websites, such as dating websites, are disclosed. An owner of the website can capitalize on the quality of the user base. A bidding process can be used to limit access to highly desirable users. In some cases revenue generated from the bidding process will belong to the website owner, while in other cases, the revenues may be shared with the highly desirable users. Revenue need not be entirely financial, as the bidding process may operate with anything of value. | 02-17-2011 |
20110040694 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXPERT QUALITY CONTROL - In exemplary embodiments, an apparatus and method for providing expert quality control on a consultation system is provided. Feedback is received for an expert. The feedback may be from users of the consultation system, other experts on the consultation system, or third-parties with relevant expertise and may comprise direct and indirect feedback. Adjustment factors are recorded for the expert. The adjustment factors comprise public and non-public actions associated with the expert. The expert is then evaluated using the feedback and the adjustment factors. | 02-17-2011 |
20110055094 | Personalized plan development based on outcome identification - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: receiving a request for one or more personalized plans designed to facilitate an end user to achieve one or more target outcomes when one or more emulatable aspects indicated by the one or more personalized plans are emulated, the request identifying the one or more target outcomes; seeking one or more reported aspects that are relevant to achieving the one or more target outcomes in response to receiving the request; and developing the one or more personalized plans based, at least in part, on the seeking. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055095 | Personalized plan development based on outcome identification - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: receiving a request for one or more personalized plans designed to facilitate an end user to achieve one or more target outcomes when one or more emulatable aspects indicated by the one or more personalized plans are emulated, the request identifying the one or more target outcomes; seeking one or more reported aspects that are relevant to achieving the one or more target outcomes in response to receiving the request; and developing the one or more personalized plans based, at least in part, on the seeking. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055096 | Personalized plan development based on identification of one or more relevant reported aspects - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: identifying one or more relevant reported aspects associated with one or more source users that are relevant to achieving one or more target outcomes, the identifying of the one or more relevant reported aspects being based, at least in part, on the one or more relevant reported aspects' relevancy with respect to the one or more target outcomes; and developing one or more personalized plans designed to facilitate an end user to achieve the one or more target outcomes when one or more emulatable aspects indicated by the one or more personalized plans are emulated, the development of the one or more personalized plans being based, at least in part, on the identifying In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055097 | Template development based on sensor originated reported aspects - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: providing one or more reported aspects associated with one or more source users that were originally reported by one or more sensors; and developing one or more templates designed to facilitate one or more end users to achieve one or more target outcomes when one or more emulatable aspects indicated by the one or more templates are emulated, the development of the one or more templates being based at least on a portion of the one or more reported aspects In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 03-03-2011 |
20110060694 | DISTRIBUTED SECURE ANONYMOUS CONFERENCING - A communications manager of an enterprise receives an add-conference request to host a conference by the enterprise from an organizer client, wherein the conference to enable an anonymous user that does not have enterprise credentials to join the conference. The communications manager sends an add-conference response to the organizer client indicating that the conference is organized. | 03-10-2011 |
20110071953 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - Methods and system for social commerce network analysis are described. In one embodiment, a strongly connected component value, an in-component value, an out-component value, a disconnected component value, a tendril value, and a tube value of a social network for a time period may be accessed. A social strength of the social network for the time period may be calculated by combining the strongly connected component value, the in-component value, the out-component value, the disconnected component value, the tendril value, and the tube value. The social strength of the social network for the time period may be utilized for analysis of the social network. The strongly connected component value may have a greatest weight and the disconnected component value may have the lowest weight in the combining. | 03-24-2011 |
20110078088 | Method and System for Accurate Rating of Avatars in a Virtual Environment - A method and system applies a rating adjustment to ratings by avatars in a virtual universe. The rating adjustment offsets mutual rating collusion between avatars. The ratings may be adjusted based on a weighted value of indicia of association, and may also be adjusted based on rating frequencies between the same avatars. In a rating system having a fee structure, the ratings may be adjusted by scaling the rating/fee payoff to favor higher fees. Where indicia of association are weighted, the weightings are mapped to discrete levels of association between avatars, from no association to close association, with greater reduction of ratings for closer association. | 03-31-2011 |
20110082807 | SOCIAL BROADCASTING USER EXPERIENCE - A method of providing user participation in a social broadcast environment is disclosed. A network communication is received from a user of a broadcast that includes a preference data indicating a preference of the user that a promoted content be included in the broadcast. Via a responsive network communication, a feedback data is provided to the user that includes a predicted future time at which the promoted content may be included in the broadcast. | 04-07-2011 |
20110093404 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DATA SUBSCRIBERS AND USERS SHARING A HEALTH CONDITION - A system is disclosed that enables peer-to-peer interactions between individual users sharing an interest in a health condition. The system provides the service in return for the user providing the system with data relating to lifestyle and health of the user, including those relating to diet, exercise, use of diagnostic and drug delivery devices, medication frequency and compliance with the medication regimen. The health profile data is used to generate parameters including a level of expertise of a user and a quality indicator for the data provided by the user. The database containing health profile data is accessible to a subscriber who queries the data anonymously to retrieve information. | 04-21-2011 |
20110106718 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to collect one or more user-generated comments from each of a plurality of computing devices, detect a correlation in the one or more user-generated comments collected from the plurality of computing devices, and establish a social network between the plurality of computing devices according to the detected correlation. The one or more user-generated comments can be temporally associated with media content presented at the plurality of computing devices. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 05-05-2011 |
20110106719 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING MOBILE DEVICE USERS - A system and a method for matching mobile device users are provided. The system includes a match server and a mobile device used by a mobile device user. The match server defines a plurality of living community regions, living community reference points, primary interest classes and detail interest classes, receives position coordinates from the mobile device, and defines a living community range of the mobile device user and infers the point of interest (POI) of the mobile device user based on the received position coordinates. Moreover, the match server generates a match list based on the living community ranges, the POIs and the personal profiles of the mobile device user and the other mobile device users, and transmits the match list to the mobile device. Accordingly, the system can effectively match the mobile device users having similar behavior patterns. | 05-05-2011 |
20110112975 | COMMUNITY GENERATED SCENARIOS - Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for creating community-generated scenarios that provide a narrative description of the future. In some embodiments, the present invention: scans the Internet for already published scenarios about the future of a particular topic; identifies underlying trends and change drivers in the already published scenarios; scans the Internet for information about the underlying trends and change drivers; publishes, in the form of abstracts, to a community of stakeholders the information about the underlying trends and change drivers; receives and publishes to the individual stakeholders the community's feedback regarding the validity, relevance, and impact of the underlying trends and change drivers with respect to the future of the topic; and provides a forum through which the community of individual stakeholders, in light of the published abstracts and feedback, can collaboratively apply their knowledge to develop community-generated scenarios about the future of the topic. | 05-12-2011 |
20110112976 | SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION - A method of forming unique, private, personal, virtual social networks on a social network system that includes a database storing data relating to corresponding user entities. The method includes: a first user entity sending an invitation to a second user entity, recording in the database the second user entity as a direct contact of the first user entity and determining that third user entities, directly connected to the second user entity, are indirect contacts. A unique, personal, social network formed from direct and indirect contacts is thereby created for each user entity. Each user entity is able to control privacy of its data with respect to other user entities depending on the connection factor to that other entity and/or that other entity's attributes. Each user entity is able to take the role of provider or participant in applications where the provider provides an item or service to the participant. | 05-12-2011 |
20110125659 | System and method for output of assessment of physical entity attribute effects on physical environments through in part social networking service input - A method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining assessment information for at least one of one or more physical entities, the assessment information based at least in part upon status information about one or more physical attributes associated with the one or more physical entities, the one or more physical attributes each being perceived by one or more humans as being capable of having one or more effects upon one or more physical environments, and the assessment information based at least in part upon input information from at least one of the one or more humans through at least in part one or more social networking services, the input information associated with at least one of the one or more physical attributes, and outputting output information based at least in part upon one or more elements of the assessment information. In addition to the foregoing, other related system/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125660 | System and method for assessment of physical entity attribute effects on physical environments through in part social networking service input - A method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining status information about one or more physical attributes associated with one or more physical entities, the one or more physical attributes each being perceived by one or more humans as being capable of having one or more effects upon one or more physical environments, obtaining input information from at least one of the one or more humans through at least in part one or more social networking services, the input information associated with at least one of the one or more physical attributes, and determining assessment information for at least one of the one or more physical entities based at least in part upon the status information and based at least in part upon the input information. In addition to the foregoing, other related system/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 05-26-2011 |
20110125661 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEEDING ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK CONTACTS - A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards seeding a user's contacts for their online social network. The invention is arranged to automatically recommend to the user a set of seed contacts that the user may employ to invite to join their social network. The set of seed contacts may be harvested from the user's existing portal activities, as well as other sources. In one embodiment, the invention analyzes portal activity, such as email exchanges with the user, and the like, to determine a frequency of contact with the user. Other sources may include but not be limited to emails, names within an address book of the user, names within an address book of another person, a buddy list, an instant messaging list, an activity, a mailing list, an online discussion group, a membership in a category, chat group, and the like. | 05-26-2011 |
20110131144 | SOCIAL ANALYSIS IN MULTI-PARTICIPANT MEETINGS - A method, system and computer program product are provided for social analysis in multi-party meetings. The method includes receiving a data stream of a multi-participant meeting and identifying participants' contributions in the data stream. The method also includes detecting a sub-activity within the data stream in which two or more participants are active and calculating a connection weight between two participants based on contributions in a sub-activity. Calculating a connection weight between two participants includes increasing a weighting of two participants that interact in the same sub-activity. The method also includes integrating the connection weight between two participants into a weighted social network. | 06-02-2011 |
20110131145 | Measuring engagement activities initiated by electronic word-of mouth referrals in social networks - A system is provided for assessing the historical engagement activities of a single user, and then altering the current presentation of engagement activities in accordance with a predetermined sequential series, or an algorithmic decision-tree, so that an optimized set of engagement options are presented to returning or recurring users. This system is capable of weighting each of the various engagement activities that have been clicked on by an individual, calculating an overall “engagement score”, and then presenting certain engagement activities based on that factor. | 06-02-2011 |
20110137813 | Providing a Map Indicating Locations of Users in a Social Network - Systems, methods, apparatus and software have been discovered for use by individual users to monitor the geographic location of other people or assets with some relationship to the user. Once some manner of location information is determined, users have the ability to describe that location in various ways and control how that information is shared with other users. | 06-09-2011 |
20110137814 | Social Networking System which Provides Notification of User Location Based on Distance - Systems, methods, apparatus and software have been discovered for use by individual users to monitor the geographic location of other people or assets with some relationship to the user. Once some manner of location information is determined, users have the ability to describe that location in various ways and control how that information is shared with other users. | 06-09-2011 |
20110145160 | INFORMATION POSTING BY STRATEGIC USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Embodiments are directed to modeling propagation of an information item in an online social network. A quality value for the information item to be posted in the online social network is calculated, and the quality value is compared to a posting threshold value. The posting threshold value being determined based on a strategic user model. A propagation of the information item through the online social network is emulated based on the comparison. | 06-16-2011 |
20110178939 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVELOPING, IMPLEMENTING, AND MONITORING A DYNAMIC SCALABLE PHILANTHROPIC INFRASTRUCTURE THAT MOTIVATES AND EMPOWERS INDIVIDUALS TO ENGAGE IN AND MANAGE DESIRED CUSTOMIZABLE PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for providing unconventional employee benefit plans and corresponding customizable benefits to high-earning individuals, and more particularly to a system and method for developing, implementing, and monitoring a dynamic scalable philanthropic infrastructure, that is made available to selected members of an implementing organization as a workplace benefit, and that includes at least one or more customizable training and counseling components configured to provide the eligible participating members with a better understanding of philanthropy as part of a balanced lifestyle, and to motivate, empower, and guide the members, to engage in, and to manage one or more desired philanthropic activities. | 07-21-2011 |
20110184879 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOCIALLY ACQUIRING GOODS OR SERVICES - An approach is provided for coordinating the acquisition of items. Acquisition information for a plurality of items is received. Transmission of the acquisition information is caused, at least in part, to a plurality of devices. Status information related to acquiring at least a portion of the items is received from at least one of the devices. Transmission of the status information to at least another one of the devices is caused, at least in part. | 07-28-2011 |
20110191257 | System and method for output of comparison of physical entities of a received selection and associated with a social network - A method includes, but is not limited to: obtaining assessment information being performed at least in part by at least one of a machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, the assessment information based at least in part on a comparing being performed at least in part by at least one of a machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, the comparing being between one or more first physical entities and one or more second physical entities, the comparing based at least in part on receiving a selection of the one or more first physical entities, the receiving the selection being performed at least in part by at least one of a machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, the selection being based at least in part on each of the one or more first physical entities being associated with an electronic based social networking service, the comparing being based at least in part upon status information about one or more physical attributes for each of the one or more first physical entities and for each of the one or more second physical entities, the one or more physical attributes each being perceived by one or more humans as being capable of having one or more effects upon one or more physical environments, and outputting output information at least in part by at least one of a machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter based at least in part upon one or more elements of the assessment information. In addition to the foregoing, other related system/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 08-04-2011 |
20110213724 | COMMUNITY HUB REVIEW - The business review application provides a customer with a bank-hosted business review platform that provides an advertising and feedback service for the bank's business customers and provides a rating, review, feedback, and recommendation service for the bank's individual and business customers. Thus, the bank's customers can rate and review the bank's business customers. The bank uses its authentication systems used by its customers to access online banking services to authenticate the identity of the customer creating a business review in the business review platform. In some embodiments, the business review application only permits its customers to make one review of a business within a certain period of time or one review after a transaction with that business shows up in the customer's transaction information maintained by the bank. In this way, the bank can host a review platform that is much more accurate and trust-worthy than traditional business review platforms. | 09-01-2011 |
20110213725 | SECURE ONLINE DATING SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A secure online dating support system and method requires potential members to submit personal information regarding themselves as a predicate to becoming a member of the dating system. This personal information is provided in a manner, either in-person at an information receiving center, or submitted to an information collector, or submitted directly to an online dating service, that permits its verification. Preferably, authorization is also provided by the potential member for further investigation, resulting in an investigator conducting an investigation, and communicating the results to the online dating service, so that the information revealed by the investigation can be displayed to members of the online dating service and/or to individuals outside of the dating service who have been given access by the participating member. | 09-01-2011 |
20110218931 | Notifications in a Social Network Service - Notification techniques in a social network service are described. In an implementation, a status update is analyzed that is communicated via a social network service and is originated by a user. One or more other status updates are located that correspond to the analyzed status update, the one or more other status updates are communicated via the social network service and originated by one or more other users. A notification is formed to be communicated to the originating user that indicates the one or more other status updates have been located. | 09-08-2011 |
20110225102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTING A RELEVANT USER FOR INTRODUCTION TO A USER IN AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods of selecting a relevant user for introduction to a user in an online environment are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of receiving a request to identify the relevant user to be introduced to the participating user in the social network, identifying a set of social history records that occurred among the multiple users in the social network, selecting, from the multiple users, the relevant user to be introduced to the participating user using the set of social history records. The relevant user that is selected is not a social connection of the participating user in the social network. One embodiment includes, determining whether the participating user is interested in meeting the relevant user in the social network based on an indication made by the participating user via interaction with the user device. | 09-15-2011 |
20110231328 | Methods And Systems For Shareholder Information Sharing And Collaboration - Methods and systems for a server-based internet accessible efficient exchange of shareholder information between mutual shareholders, shareholder representatives, concerned parties, and the concerned corporations utilizing a database and software for automatic execution of the methods. The database contains, for example, individual account data of registered shareholders, a data base of known corporate contact information. Software applications provide, for example, an email generating application, a date/time keeping application, an evaluation and outcome application that displays process information, an electronic notification process, a database recording function that records the correspondence, and a search function that allows concerned members to access the historical data. | 09-22-2011 |
20110246383 | SUMMARY PRESENTATION OF MEDIA CONSUMPTION - Summary presentation of media consumption is described herein. An exemplary method for generating a personal highlight reel includes receiving personal consumption data indicating one or more media units consumed by a user computing device, and storing the personal consumption data in association with a user identifier. The method further includes identifying one or more relevant personal media units based on the personal consumption data. The method further includes generating a personal highlight reel including one or more personal media events representative of the one or more relevant personal media units, and outputting the personal highlight reel. | 10-06-2011 |
20110251970 | Mobile social networking system and method - A mobile social networking system, method and platform are disclosed. A common set of functions is defined for a mobile social networking aggregator system. A set of components of one or more social networking websites is mapped to the common set of functions. The set of components mapped to the common set of functions is then normalized for being displayed in a common interface of the mobile social networking aggregator for each of a number of selected models of mobile devices. | 10-13-2011 |
20110251971 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING REAL-TIME COLLABORATION IN A CUSTOMER SUPPORT ENVIRONMENT - An embodiment of the invention comprises a real-time collaborative technical support (RTCTS) system that may automatically generate and/or maintain social networks that may be dynamically evolving. The social networks may be based on the output of at least one multi-modal classification algorithm. These outputs may be occurring in real-time. | 10-13-2011 |
20110251972 | SPORTING EVENT IMAGE CAPTURE, PROCESSING AND PUBLICATION - Systems, methods and software are disclosed for capturing and/or importing and processing media items such as digital images or video ( | 10-13-2011 |
20110258131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING INFORMATION - A method is provided for recommending a product to a plurality of people. The method comprises the following steps. A consumer is provided with an entry point to recommend the product. The consumer is then provided with at least one applet configured for a corresponding social network. The applet is used to create a custom recommendation personalized by the consumer, and disseminate the custom recommendation amongst the consumer's contacts within the social network. A computer readable medium including instructions for implementing the method is also provided. | 10-20-2011 |
20110264596 | SOCIAL REFERRAL NETWORKS - Techniques are disclosed for maintaining a personalized referral network for each of multiple users. A user may browse businesses and/or professional services recommended by other users of the personalized referral network for the user. The user may also manage the personalized referral network to control what recommendations appear in a personalized recommendations feed for the user. Advantageously, the user may more conveniently receive recommendations that are responsive to the needs of the user. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270774 | Group Recommendations in Social Networks - Providing a recommendation to a group of networked members is disclosed. The recommendation is provided to the group collectively, and is based on trust relationships between the members of the network. In an example embodiment, the network is a social network. Example systems and methods include a two-phase approach and a one-phase approach, each including analysis and aggregation of input associated with members of the network. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276504 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING REMUNERATION FOR ADVOCACY - Users in a social networking environment are matched with subjects of advocacy, such as products, services, offers, candidates, etc., by evaluating user profile characteristic information. The user may provide advocacy materials and an advocacy system may also generate advocacy materials that may be incorporated with the user's own testimonials. The advocacy materials are distributed using social network channels. A remuneration tracking system monitors distribution of the advocacy materials and analyzes metrics to determine the effectiveness of the distribution. In some examples, the renumeration tracking system monitors redistribution of the advocacy materials, purchase or selection of an offer upon viewing the advocacy materials, and/or commenting or positively valuing the advocacy materials. | 11-10-2011 |
20110282798 | Making Friend and Location Recommendations Based on Location Similarities - Method for making a recommendation to a first user in a computing network, including calculating one or more similarity scores between the first user and one or more remaining users in the network, identifying a portion of the remaining users having a highest similarity scores, identifying one or more locations visited by the portion of the remaining users but not by the first user, determining an interest level of the first user in each location, ranking the locations based on the interest levels, and displaying the locations based on the ranking as a first recommendation. | 11-17-2011 |
20110282799 | GPS Based Friend Location and Identification System and Method - A system and method for observing a personal networking event which shares the position of a number of friendly participants with other participants within a group. In one form, the position of unknown participants meeting certain criteria is also displayed to a user or one or more friendly participants. The views are selectable by friendly participants on, for example, a GPS equipped cell phone, to include a view from the participant's position, zoom, pan, and tilt views, or views from another friendly location or from another geographic location, giving increased situational awareness and identification of participants. Other information can be shared among friendly participants, including social information, status and directions. | 11-17-2011 |
20110289011 | SOCIAL NETWORK WITH FIELD LEVEL CONTROL OF DATA EXPOSURE - A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards seeding a user's contacts for their online social network. The invention is arranged to automatically recommend to the user a set of seed contacts that the user may employ to invite to join their social network. The set of seed contacts may be harvested from the user's existing portal activities, as well as other sources. In one embodiment, the invention analyzes portal activity, such as email exchanges with the user, and the like, to determine a frequency of contact with the user. Other sources may include but not be limited to emails, names within an address book of the user, names within an address book of another person, a buddy list, an instant messaging list, an activity, a mailing list, an online discussion group, a membership in a category, chat group, and the like. | 11-24-2011 |
20110302097 | BEHAVIOR-BASED NETWORKS - A networking service that receives information about behaviors of the users, such as behaviors in which a user is engaging now or will engage in the future. The networking service compares the behavior information to identify matches between two or more users. When a match is detected, the networking service may form a network (e.g., a social network) between the two or more users by connecting the users in a network. The users may then communicate in the network, and additional users may be added to the network when those users are determined to be engaging in the behavior. When the networking service detects that the users are no longer engaging in the behaviors on which the match was identified, the networking service may disconnect users from one another or the network, and the networking service may eliminate the network. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302098 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ANSWERS TO USERS OF A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM - Online communities, also referred to as “forums,” are used as a customer support tool along with a repository of useful articles, also referred to as “knowledge base.” Users may navigate between the forum and the knowledge base. Social networks can also be used to access the forum and knowledge base. Forums and knowledge bases that have confidential data may be restricted to employees of a multi-tenant database system. Any of the above embodiments can be used independently or together with any combination of other embodiments. | 12-08-2011 |
20110302099 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL NETWORK - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for providing a social network. An apparatus for a social network includes an account module, a connection module, and a network visibility module. The account module is configured to manage a plurality of account types, the account types including a first account type, a second account type, and an administrator account type. The connection module allows for the forming of connections between specific accounts wherein the connections are allowed to be formed based on at least the account types of the specific accounts. The network visibility module regulates the amount of details of an account that are visible to other account. The visibility of the details of the account are based on at least the account type of the account. The accounts of different types include permissions that are unequal in relation to each other. Each level of permissions includes limitations at least partially defined by one or more of the connection module and the network visibility module. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307397 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING SOCIAL INFLUENCE - A system creates a market for social influence, by 1) creating a measurement system and pricing mechanism for the social influence power (Social IQ) which is, in the marketing industry, the ability to influence brands of products and services at different level of the marketing vertical from market research to advertising; and 2) establishing a market place to trade social influence and its derivative products such as: Opinion sharing, reviews, expert advice, endorsement, promotion, content generation, and buzz creation. The system can measure Social IQ and supports monetization of social influence through Social IQ. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307398 | Managing Consistent Interfaces for Request for Information, Request for Information Response, Supplier Assessment Profile, Supplier Questionnaire Assessment, and Supplier Transaction Assessment Business Objects across Heterogeneous Systems - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a request for information, a request for information response, a supplier assessment profile, a supplier questionnaire assessment, and/or a supplier transaction assessment business object. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307399 | Live Event Social Networking System - Embodiments of the invention provide a method for location-based social networking including creating a user profile. In some embodiments, creating the profile can include receiving user data, storing the data in a database, and distributing a reward to the user for creating the profile. The method can include determining a location of the user using one of a global positioning system (GPS) and data input from the user and displaying at least one event. In some embodiments, the selection of the event can be based on the location of the event. In some embodiments, the method can include receiving an event check-in instruction from the GPS or the user and distributing another reward to the user. Also, the method can include receiving and displaying a user comment regarding the event. In some embodiments, the method can include transmitting the comment to a social networking account. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307400 | Information and Communication Systems and Platforms and Their Methods of Use - Information and communication system are disclosed that include at least one virtual map comprising at least one contact, at least one search box that is related to the at least one virtual map, and at least one two-way interactive communication function. In some embodiments, the at least one virtual map comprises a trade show booth layout, a job fair, a street map, a city map, a building layout, a mall layout or a combination thereof. Methods of using a two-way communication and information system comprises: providing at least one prospective customer, customer, entity contact or a combination thereof, providing at least one vendor contact, providing at least one virtual map comprising the at least one vendor contact, providing at least one search box that searchably relates the at least one vendor contact to the at least one virtual map, utilizing the search box to locate a vendor contact of interest, and utilizing at least one two-way interactive communication function to interactively connect the at least one vendor contact with the at least one prospective customer, customer, entity contact or a combination thereof in real-time. | 12-15-2011 |
20110320373 | PRODUCT CONVERSATIONS AMONG SOCIAL GROUPS - Conversations about products and product areas arise among users who also participate in social networks. These conversations often occur over generalized communications channels, such as email or social network messages, which may be unstructured and ephemeral. Such conversations may be promoted among the users of a social group (such as a highly interconnected set of users), and may be restricted to the members of the social group in order to promote reliable discussion and personalized recommendations. The social network may also store such conversations as a product review database that is searchable by members of the social group, evaluate the conversation to identify a consensus recommendation of a product in a product area or a consensus opinion of the social group about a product or recommendation, and compute an aggregated user rating of a product based on the user ratings of the product by various members of the social group. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320374 | METHODS AND COLLECTIVE REASONING FRAMEWORK FOR COMPLEX DECISION MAKING - A computer-based method for building a framework to be utilized in collaborative decision making related to a topic of interest is provided. The method includes defining a collaborative framework space in a memory to store data relating to the topic of interest, selecting individuals within a community of interest to be involved in the collaborative decision regarding the topic of interest, using at least one computer-based collaboration methodology to allow discussion and deliberation on the topic of interest within the community of interest, generating an argumentation tree based on the discussion and deliberation, iteratively refining the argumentation tree based on the discussion and deliberation within the community of interest until the argumentation tree describes a consensus decision related to the topic of interest. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320375 | Sports Matchmaker Systems - The Sports Matchmaker System provides an improved method for arranging sporting events and non-sporting events between unacquainted people. It provides a system for matching persons publicly offering to participate in particular sporting or social events with other persons desiring to participate in similar sporting or social events. The system also provides various means for communicating between the offering party and the accepting party to complete the event. The system also provides methods for arranging event venues for sporting and social events. | 12-29-2011 |
20120016803 | Management and dispersal of social media accounts - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing a social media account upon a death of an account holder. A method includes receiving instructions at a management server from a social media account holder regarding disposition of a social media account upon the social media account holder's death or incapacitation, verifying account holder ownership of the social media account, verifying the received instructions, posting a life status indicator on a graphical user interface (GUI) of the social media account, receiving notification at the management server of the account holder's death or incapacitation, receiving confirmation at the management server of the account holder's death or incapacitation, and implementing the instructions regarding disposition of the social media account. | 01-19-2012 |
20120023030 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORK JOB APPLICATIONS - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for social network job applications. A method for submitting a job includes receiving details for a job posting from a job poster and the job posting corresponds to an employment position. The method includes providing the job posting for viewing on a job board by one or more users of a social network. Each account includes a user profile storing user information. The method includes receiving a request from a user to apply for the employment position corresponding to the job board posting. The method also includes submitting a job application for viewing by the job poster. The job application includes at least a portion of the user information from the user profile corresponding to the user. At least a portion of the user information included in the job application is pulled from the user profile. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030125 | Method and system for tracking,archiving, reporting, and communication of time, activity, and event details - A method and system for time, activity, event tracking includes providing an application or portal or website over wireless or wired networked devices or systems, having means that allow users to keep information about all their activities and allow detailed reporting. The system also provides a plurality of tracking, archiving, reporting, communication, and management over various formats depending on user profile. The system provides services like compensate and certify user activities for personal or organizational goals and communicate and campaign about activities or promotion of products, ideas, and services. The method further includes storing user data in ranges, archiving, summarizing, aggregating of data, and using user profile and requests to initiate internal and external communication based on user profile. The method and system manage hierarchy of organizations, users; provide administrative functions over a plurality of external devices, applications, systems, media formats, websites, social media sites, and communication interfaces. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036079 | BUILDING SOCIAL NETWORKS BASED ON COMMERCE - A social network relating consumers to a commerce system of interest is built. Weights are assigned for individual nodes of the social network based on predetermined criteria. The social network is navigated to identify customer leaders and define customer segments of the commerce system. The social network is also navigated to identify specific communication channels relative to the customer leaders. Effective marketing strategies are defined using the customer leaders and the specific communication channels. | 02-09-2012 |
20120036080 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING ONLINE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS - Systems and methods of tracking online social interactions. In various instances, tracking may include any of the following inter-alia: ranking user accounts, identifying corresponding user accounts, noting online roles of user accounts and/or calculating the alternative cost of funding a traditional online campaign equivalent in exposure and partiality. In some cases, tracking may be used as part of end to end management of a campaign (e.g. advertisement, marketing, public relations, political, etc.) | 02-09-2012 |
20120041888 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF INTERACTION CHANNELS BETWEEN SOCIAL INVESTORS, AWARDEES AND RECIPIENT INSTITUTIONS - A system and method for the management of interaction channels between social investors, awardees and recipient institutions is described, which comprises an online platform that operates based on user profiles: Social Investor (A), Awardee (B) and Recipient Institution (C), being that said agents (A, B and C) perform interactions by means of the channels provided by the platform, in order to accomplish Solidarity Awards with the compulsory joint selection of an Awardee (B) and of a Recipient Institution (C) for the accomplishment of the Solidarity Award | 02-16-2012 |
20120059767 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING AND MONITORING BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS - The invention relates to a computer-implemented method and system for processing and monitoring business-to-business relationships, with the steps of creating social network maps considering social relationship structures, said social relationship structures having nodes of individuals ( | 03-08-2012 |
20120066138 | USER AFFINITY CONCENTRATIONS AS SOCIAL TOPOGRAPHY - Systems and methods for generating a social topography map based on user affinity concentrations are disclosed. In general, locations and aggregate profiles are obtained for a number of crowds of users that are relevant to a geographic bounding region for a desired social topography map. Each aggregate profile includes information regarding an affinity between a corresponding crowd and a defined user profile. The defined user profile may be a user profile of a requesting user, or a select subset thereof, or a target user profile. Social topography data for the desired geographic bounding region is then generated based on the locations and aggregate profiles of the relevant crowds. The social topography data defines user affinity concentrations across the desired geographic bounding region. A social topography map may then be generated and presented to a requesting user based on the social topography data generated for the desired geographic bounding region. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066139 | Methods, Systems, and Processes for Identifying Affected and Related Individuals During a Crisis - A crisis management system may retrieve and analyze data from the social network system to identify, find, and/or locate individuals affected by a crisis. For example, when a crisis occurs, the crisis management system may retrieve data from a social network system regarding individuals that may be affected by the crisis. Crisis management system may then analyze the retrieved data to determine whether the individuals may have been located within the crisis area. Additionally, crisis management system may analyze the retrieved data to determine related individuals, such as co-workers, friends, family, relatives, or other individuals that may act as emergency contacts for the affected individuals. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066140 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING ADHERENCE TO PRESCRIBED REGIMENS - An approach is provided for monitoring adherence to prescribed regimens. A social service platform receives an input for specifying a schedule associated with a user. Next, the social service platform determines to create at least one social network group, the members of the social network group including, at least in part, the user and one or more other users. Then, the social service platform determines to establish one or more communication sessions among devices corresponding to at least some of the members based, at least in part, on the schedule. | 03-15-2012 |
20120072358 | CUSTOMER CARE REPLIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA - In one implementation, customer service is managed by a contact center. The contact center includes a contact center server and an agent device. The contact center server monitors external social media to identify a social media post by a customer. The social media post may be filtered by the customer names, product identities, and/or the nature of the post. The contact center server accesses a database storing a plurality of agent identities and searches the social media for a reply to the customer's social media post. Replies may be identified using subject line or a reply indicator. The contact center server stores the reply to the social media post. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072359 | Location Based Friend Finding - A method, data processing system, and computer program product for locating people. A mobile data processing system identifies a number of degrees of separation from a requestor for use in searching for the people. The mobile data processing system searches a network data processing system for data structures that contain information about associations between the people that are within the number of degrees of separation from the requestor to generate an initial group of people. The mobile network data processing system identifies a group of people from the initial group of people that are within a geographic location based on a location of the mobile data processing system and a portion of the group of people who are online. The mobile data processing system displays the portion of the group of people on a display device for the mobile data processing system. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072360 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN A FIRST PARTICIPANT AND A SECOND PARTICIPANT IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for associating a first participant and a second participant in a social network. In one embodiment, payment is received from a first participant. Additionally, an association between the first participant and a second participant in a social network is provided, in exchange for the payment. | 03-22-2012 |
20120078802 | APPLYING BUSINESS PROCESSES TO COLLABORATION TOOLS - A computer implemented method for providing a business process in an online collaboration includes associating a business process model with the collaboration based on entries made by one or more participants. The business process model may include one or more business processes or process steps. The method may also include providing a graphical interface module to the collaboration participants associated with the business process, the graphical interface module configured to receive data from one or more participants of the collaboration. Data received from the participant interacting with the interface module may be processed in accordance with the process steps associated with the business process. Data received throughout the collaboration may be stored in a memory. | 03-29-2012 |
20120095931 | Contact Referral System and Method - A recruiting tool for leveraging social and business contacts of existing employees, contractors, franchisees and the like is disclosed. The system provides an application for evaluating contact data of employee contacts available through existing social networks or other applications. The application compares the contact data to opportunity description data and, if any of the contacts appear to possess the proper qualifications, matches those contacts to the opportunity of the employer. Feedback is provided to the employee identifying these matched contacts. The employee may then use the application to alert the matched contact of the opportunity, and to submit a referral to the employer relating to the matched contact. Additional system features and options for parties in the role of the employer, the employee, and the matched contacts are disclosed. | 04-19-2012 |
20120095932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CASE INDEX - A system and method of determining a composite automated site engagement (CASE) index for a website are provided, including tracking user activities at the website, and if a weighted value associated with a user activity has changed based on the tracking, calculating a market value for the user activity, calculating a divisor value for a new CASE index, calculating the new CASE index based upon the market value and the divisor, and updating a database to reflect the new CASE index. | 04-19-2012 |
20120101954 | Multiple Site Profile and Transfer of Information - Profile information is shared between websites. A multi site profile can be used which has information for use on a social networking site which includes information about connections and lifestyle preferences on the social networking site, and on an item purchase site which includes information about successful items purchased on the item purchase site, and on a gaming website, which includes information about characters on the gaming website, and items associated with the profile, gaming website. The profile can be used on the different sites, and receive updates from the different sites. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109835 | USER FILTERING IN SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for filtering third-party generated content in a social network. The method may involve receiving a request to view third-party generated content in a social network. The method may involve determining the group permissions that are set by the user for one or more groups. The user may define group membership. The group permissions define the access privileges to the third-party generated content. The method may also involve filtering the third-party generated content according to the group permissions such that the third-party generated content is filtered prior to its presentation to the requesting third-party user. As a result, certain third-party generated content may be hidden from certain third-party users. In certain embodiments, the user can set individual permissions governing access to the third-party generated content. In addition, filtering of third-party generated content may involve precedence of individual permissions over group permissions and precedence of the most restrictive group permissions when the requesting third-party is a member of numerous groups. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109836 | CONTENT SHARING INTERFACE FOR SHARING CONTENT IN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving user input indicating a distribution for digital content, the distribution indicating one or more contacts to which the digital content is to be distributed, processing the distribution based on one or more policies, each of the one or more policies providing a limitation on distribution of digital content, based on the processing, determining that the distribution violates at least one policy of the one or more policies, and in response to the determining, transmitting notification data to display a notification to a user that the distribution violates the at least one policy. | 05-03-2012 |
20120116986 | System and Method for Integrating Medical Treatment Guidelines with Real-Time, Ad-Hoc, Community Generated Commentary to Facilitate Collaborative Evidence-Based Practice - A system and method for automatically integrating real-time, ad-hoc, community generated commentary such as comments, notes, observations, and anecdotal data in any human perceptible form with medical treatment guidelines (otherwise known as “clinical guidelines”, “clinical protocols”, or “clinical practice guidelines”) to create a display that shows the medical treatment guideline alongside the commentary. The present invention employs a server with a database capable of receiving and displaying commentary from local or remote users via a network, such as the Internet using various terminal devices such as a computers, smartphones, or tablets. The present invention provides an accessible, dynamically revised stream of commentary thus creating an evolving resource in which infrequently revised medical treatment guidelines are supplemented with commentary in real-time. The utilization of medical treatment guidelines by health-care providers now characterized as “evidence based medicine” or “evidence based practice” is thus advanced constituting what is termed as “collaborative evidence-based practice.” | 05-10-2012 |
20120143779 | ONLINE MATCHMAKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An online matchmaking management system includes a member database for storing a plurality of member data files, an account management module configured to process login data of a user, and a matching module configured to receive a matching condition and to select at least one candidate member. The online matchmaking management system also includes an interaction module configured to provide an interaction interface for the user to generate a marriage suitability questionnaire, to provide the marriage suitability questionnaire to a target member selected by the user from the at least one candidate member, to relay to the user response of the target member to the marriage suitability questionnaire, and based on a number of interactions between the user and the target member, to provide the user with conditional authorization for further interaction with the target member. | 06-07-2012 |
20120150759 | NON-GAMING ON-LINE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS - Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented using one or more computing devices to facilitate or otherwise support one or more processes or operations associated with non-gaming on-line achievement awards for use in or with information or award management systems. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158605 | CREATING A DYNAMIC ACCOUNT STORING AGGREGATED SOCIAL DATA TO ASSIST CUSTOMER KNOWLEDGE - A method, system and computer program product for assisting customer knowledge using social media data. Responses to text-based posts regarding compatibility of an updated product with respect to other products/components in a complex product environment are aggregated and used to create what is referred to herein as a “dynamic account.” The dynamic account contains information regarding the compatibility of an updated product from a particular vendor/company with other products from other vendors/companies, where these products are used in combination in a complex product environment. This knowledge base may be used by users of a social network system who are customers of these companies to keep them informed regarding compatibility issues when an update to a product occurs. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166348 | STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF DATA RECORDS FOR AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF ACTIVITY OF NON-CUSTOMERS - Data records of a service provider may be utilized to estimate data regarding to users who are customers of an alternative service provider, such as a competitor. The data records may indicate interaction between users. An estimated value of a selected user may be determined based on a statistical model. The statistical model may be built using training data. The statistical model may take into account social activity of the selected user, such as which users are socially proximate to him. The statistical model may take into account interactions of the selected user with users who are customers of the service provider. The statistical model may take into account demographic data. The statistical model may take into account data regarding users who are socially proximate to the selected user. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166349 | SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - An apparatus, system, and method and for social media communication and relationship management. The method includes providing a user with a user account on a web-based social networking platform. The user may own user content associated with the user account and the user content may be stored by the social networking platform. The method may also include charging one or more commercial entities in response to brokering communication between the one or more commercial entities and the user through the social networking platform. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166350 | Remote dating method - A method of establishing personal contact between an inquiring individual and a target individual, the inquiring and target individuals being members of an organization, includes the steps of identifying a target individual of interest to an inquiring individual, determining the location of the target individual and providing the location of the target individual to a central location, providing the target individual with a message that the inquiring individual is interested in establishing personal contact with the target individual, and providing the inquiring individual with authorization to establish personal contact with the target individual when the target individual provides a positive response to the central location. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166351 | CREATING A DYNAMIC ACCOUNT STORING AGGREGATED SOCIAL DATA TO ASSIST CUSTOMER KNOWLEDGE - A method for assisting customer knowledge using social media data. Responses to text-based posts regarding compatibility of an updated product with respect to other products/components in a complex product environment are aggregated and used to create what is referred to herein as a “dynamic account.” The dynamic account contains information regarding the compatibility of an updated product from a particular vendor/company with other products from other vendors/companies, where these products are used in combination in a complex product environment. This knowledge base may be used by users of a social network system who are customers of these companies to keep them informed regarding compatibility issues when an update to a product occurs. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166352 | BUILDING SOCIAL NETWORKS BASED ON COMMERCE - A social network relating consumers to a commerce system of interest is built. Weights are assigned for individual nodes of the social network based on predetermined criteria. The social network is navigated to identify customer leaders and define customer segments of the commerce system. The social network is also navigated to identify specific communication channels relative to the customer leaders. Effective marketing strategies are defined using the customer leaders and the specific communication channels. | 06-28-2012 |
20120179616 | PROCESS TO TRANSFORM A SOCIAL SYSTEM INTO A MORE VITAL, MORE SUSTAINABLE LIVING SYSTEM - A vitality ratio is disclosed to monitor the well-being of nation-systems and other social systems. In an example, V=R:N (economic vitality [V] is determined by the natural resources [R] available to a social system, in relation to the system's resource needs [N]). With definitions of products, natural resources, social systems, and other related terms, said ratio can be programmed into a system-wide computer network, accepting input relating to needs and resources from throughout the system and issuing an alert in the event of a negative ratio (i.e., in which needs for any specific resource exceed the system's access to that resource). | 07-12-2012 |
20120191620 | FACILITATING CONNECTIONS BY ENTREPRENEURS THROUGH A COMPUTER BASED SYSTEM - The present invention generally relates to online business networking Specifically, this invention relates to a system and method for facilitating the virtual connection of entrepreneurs with business owners, lenders, service providers, coaches, consultants, investors, and other entrepreneurs through a computer based system that manages the process via the Internet or other network and may be delivered to an end user through static or mobile devices. | 07-26-2012 |
20120197814 | CONTENT ENDORSEMENT - A computer-implemented method for content endorsement includes receiving, at a server, postings from posters; receiving, for each posting, a posting fee; receiving endorsements drawn by the postings; receiving, for each endorsement, an endorsement fee; collecting the endorsement fees into a pot; based on the endorsements, defining a subset of postings; and allocating at least a portion of the pot to postings in the subset of postings. | 08-02-2012 |
20120203706 | LISTINGS CHECK-IN SERVICE - Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for checking consumers in to currently broadcast television content choices to derive consumer profile data. The consumer profile data is analyzed to make programming choices, and to provide enriched programming content. At the same time, the consumer benefits from a social network based on viewers of the same broadcast content, as well as designated friends, wherein the consumers within the network can share commentary on the content choices they are viewing and learn of new content choices. | 08-09-2012 |
20120209786 | Social Net Advocacy Business Applications - A method and system are disclosed for monitoring user interactions and generating proactive responses thereto within a social media environment. Social media interactions are monitored, collected, and processed to generate social network advocacy analyses, which are in turn processed to generate predictive models. In turn, the predictive models are referenced to perform targeting market segmentation operations and to generate proactive marketing response recommendations. | 08-16-2012 |
20120215705 | Methods And Systems For Providing An About Me User Interface For An Enterprise Social Network - A method for providing an about me user interface for an enterprise social network including users associated with an entity. The method can include receiving a request for user information. The request can include a name of a user of the enterprise social network. In response to receiving a request, user information can be obtained from one or more databases associated with the enterprise social network. The obtained user information can comprise information previously obtained from the named user and information obtained from one or more external software systems that the named user is currently assigned. The obtained information can be transmitted to a user system associated with a user who requested the user information for display. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215706 | Methods And Systems For Providing A Recognition User Interface For An Enterprise Social Network - A method for providing a recognition user interface for an enterprise social network including users associated with an entity. The method can include receiving a recognition request to award recognition to a second user of the enterprise social network. The recognition request can include identification information associated with the first user. In response to receiving the request, a profile associated with the second user can be accessed from one or more databases associated with the enterprise social network. A total recognition parameter in the profile associated with the second user can be updated. The updated total recognition parameter associated with the second user and the identification information associated with the first user can be saved in the one or more databases. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215707 | Methods And Systems For Providing A Recognition User Interface For An Enterprise Social Network - A method for providing a recognition user interface for an enterprise social network including users associated with an entity. The method can include receiving a request for a recognition leader board of users of the enterprise social network. The recognition leader board can be based on users of the enterprise social network awarding recognition to other users of the enterprise social network. In response to the request, recognition leader board information can be obtained. The recognition leader board information can comprise an ordered list of users based on an amount of recognition each user has been awarded. The recognition leader board information can be transmitted to the user system associated with the user for display. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215708 | SOCIAL COMMUNITY REVOLVING AROUND NEW MUSIC - An online social community uses lists maintained by each community member, with corresponding community consensus charts reflecting the tabulation of the individual member charts weighted to reflect each member's status and rating as a tastemaker, influencer or follower. The status and ratings will be calculated to reflect (a) the individual member's history and timeliness in identifying and/or following artists or music within the community results; and (b) the individual member's history and value of influencing other members of the community to adopt their choices. | 08-23-2012 |
20120226622 | Location And Profile Based System Service - A method and a system for providing location and profile based system and services. A system may includes a plurality of data sources disposed within a network for providing location and identity information associated with objects disposed within the network and a concentrator bridge, operatively coupled to the plurality of data sources, the concentrator bridge including a receiver associated with each of the plurality of data sources, wherein the concentrator bridge receives location and profile data associated with the objects from the plurality of data sources and provides the identity and location of the objects disposed within the network for viewing on a user interface. | 09-06-2012 |
20120233082 | System and Method for Tracking Merchant Performance Using Social Media - Disclosed is an electronically implemented method for providing an employee recognition using social media. The method includes providing a computing system having a processor and a data storage component, wherein the data storage component comprises instructions to cause the processor to receive, through a social media platform, an electronic request from a merchant location to provide an electronic recognition to the employee based on the employee's employment-related performance, and provide the recognition to the employee by accessing an electronic forum and posting the recognition in electronic format on such electronic forum. Recognition may be provided by posting the recognition on a social media webpage of the employee. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239584 | NAVIGATION TO DYNAMIC ENDPOINT - Turn-by-turn directions can guide a user to a dynamic destination, such as a person or a rendezvous location. The turn-by-turn directions enable one user to follow another or, alternatively, multiple people to rendezvous with each other. The selection can be via identifiers used in network contexts, such as social networking Individuals can select the circumstances under which their location can be revealed. Turn-by-turn directions enabling following utilize anticipated locations or predictions of likely destinations based on historical and contextual information. Turn-by-turn directions enabling rendezvous reference a rendezvous location, which is either the same for all users, or which differs among them. Also, the directions can reference intermediate, “staging”, locations from which further intermediate, or ultimate, destinations can be routed to. | 09-20-2012 |
20120246087 | Method and apparatus for establishing an exclusive network of Strong Tie connections which is then used to make referenceable connections between members for various personal and business benefits - Method and apparatus for establishing an exclusive network of Strong Tie connections which is then used to make referenceable connections between members for various personal and business benefits. In real life, everyone has close relationships with a few people who provide emotional support to the member and also influence member's purchase as well other important decisions. These are Strong Tie connections. As the network is limited to only Strong Tie connections, it enables various purpose driven applications without any member having direct access to other member data. Applications include Connect, Find Match, Find Person, Group Buy and Job Search. For example, through this network, members can make referenceable connections with other members who are important for personal and business reasons and who they do not know personally but are known to their Strong Tie connections or Strong Ties of Strong Ties and so on. | 09-27-2012 |
20120254053 | On Demand Information Network - A computer system provides a unified view of data for different organizations of a business. The accessed data may be distributed over different data sources that may include a data warehouse, operational databases (e.g., systems of records supporting different functions), production servers, and external data sources. Access to one or more of the data sources may be restricted based on a user profile. Data may also be accessed by directly tapping into the systems of record of a business to potentially reduce the duplication of data and provide the data in a timelier basis. Data may be obtained from the systems of record by pinging selected systems using an application programming interface and may be stored in a computing cloud that is not constrained to a particular physical asset of the business. In addition, the accessed data may be analyzed and presented differently based on the different lines of business. | 10-04-2012 |
20120259790 | FOLLOWING DEALS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Social networking systems allow users to track deals offered by deal providers. A user can send a request to follow a deal to the social networking system. The social networking system sends information describing actions associated with the deal performed by other users connected to the user via the social networking system. The actions associated with the deals can be interactions of users with the deal or interactions of users with objects associated with the deal. Examples of interactions with a deal include liking the deal, commenting on the deal, and recommending the deal. Examples of interactions with objects associated with the deal include commenting on a business profile associated with the deal and being tagged in an image of a location associated with the deal. The social networking system may provide information describing these interactions via a channel used for reporting information, for example, newsfeed. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259791 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING - A system and method of the present invention pertains to a mobile social networking application intended to be used by the members of a social network as a tool for trading personal services and offering services between each other. The system allows each user to automatically locate other users located within specified radius and offering services that the user desires to benefit from. Each user creates a profile that includes user's personal information such, as for example, name, gender, address, phone number, hobbies, college information, and more importantly the list of services the user can offer and services that the user is looking to receive or benefit from. | 10-11-2012 |
20120265703 | AD HOC SOCIAL NETWORKING - A system receives a set of criteria that identify characteristics desired in a user of a user device and that identify a location at which the user device is to be located; transmits the criteria to a server device; receives, from the server device, a list of user devices that are identified, by the server device, based on the criteria, where the list of user devices includes information relating to each user associated with the user devices; obtains video information of one of the users that are located at the location; selects a another user device, from the list of user devices, based on a determination that the video information matches information relating to a particular user, where the particular user is associated with the other user device; and communicates with the other user device, based on the selection of the other user device. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265704 | Methods and Systems for Rating Associated Members in a Network - Systems and methods for rating associated members in a social network are set forth. According to one embodiment a method comprising outputting a ratings interface for rating at least one member of a social network associated with a user, wherein the rating interface provides the user with the ability to rate the member in one or more categories, receiving ratings for the member from the user, associating the ratings with the member, and connecting the ratings for the member with the user is set forth. | 10-18-2012 |
20120278247 | VIRTUAL GOODS INCENTIVE SYSTEM - An interface application enables a campaign manager to manage the transfer of virtual credits to a user upon completion of an action that benefits a provider of goods or services. The campaign manager provides a link to the provider of goods or services. When a user clicks through to this link, the interface application directs the user to perform the desired action. Upon completion of the action, the application deposits a credit to the user's virtual account. Because the virtual transaction is performed by the provided interface application, the logistics associated with launching and executing the campaign are low enough to facilitate hi-volume, low-cost incentive programs. | 11-01-2012 |
20120296837 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED DISSEMINATION OF ADVERTISING THROUGH SEARCH ENGINES, WEBSITES, AND ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES - Aspects of the invention may involve systems, methods, and computer readable medium. In an embodiment of the invention, a computer-implemented method for disseminating information may be provided that may include receiving parent data, child data, and/or content data by a computer system. The parent data and content data may be received from a parent computer system. The child data may be received from a child computer system. The child data may contain child contact information and child distribution information. The computer system may create a web resource using, for example, content data. The computer system may insert child contact information into the web resource. The web resource may be transmitted to one or more online social networking websites based on the child distribution information. | 11-22-2012 |
20120296838 | CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The invention describes a system of controlled communication providing a method of identifying and meeting unknown persons. The method includes the steps of: providing a personal display means for wearing by a first person; providing a distinctive identifying element on the personal display means allowing a second person to identify the distinctive identifying element; providing a database for receiving details from a plurality of people related to a plurality of the identified distinctive identifying elements; allowing the second person to enter details of the identified distinctive identifying element to retrieve the details of first person; receiving details from the second person; automatically providing details to the first person of the identification by the second person and details of the second person allowing review of the second person by the first person and selective contact by the first person to the second person. | 11-22-2012 |
20120317044 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND SOFTWARE FOR CREATING A COMPETITIVE MARKETPLACE FOR CHARITIES AND PATRONS IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - A method, system, and software for creating a competitive marketplace for charities and patrons in an online social networking environment. | 12-13-2012 |
20120323810 | SOCIAL NETWORKING IDENTIFICATION METHOD - A method of locating and identifying users of a social networking service. The method involves signing up for the service, receiving and displaying merchandise tagged with a unique user identification code, allowing others to view the user identification code and/or viewing the user identification codes of others, and using the user identification codes to identify and contact users of the social networking service. | 12-20-2012 |
20120330853 | BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BASED SOCIAL NETWORK WITH VIRTUAL DATA-VISUALIZATION CARDS - A method for sharing business intelligence information includes creating a plurality of data visualization cards from business intelligence data in response to create requests from a plurality of user accounts. Each data visualization card is associated with the user account that requested its creation. Data visualization cards are also associated with user accounts that did not request their creation in response to collect requests from those user accounts. A social network is created amongst the user accounts using the data visualization cards such that user accounts associated with data visualization cards created from common business intelligence data are linked. A first data visualization card that was created in response to a create request from a first user account may then be provided to a second user account in response to determining that the first user account and the second user account are linked in the social network. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330854 | DISTRIBUTABLE REFERRAL DIRECTORY - A user-content generated network is provided for presenting business listings, as well as commentary and reviews of businesses, by participants of the network. In an embodiment, businesses can participate in the network and receive referrals from members of the network. The network can track and monitor referrals that individual businesses receive as a mechanism for promoting the business to other users in the network's user base. | 12-27-2012 |
20130006879 | Guiding Interactions Between Users of Social Networking Services Based on Business Relationships - A computing device collects data from one or more data sources. The data sources are separate from a social networking service. The computing device uses the data from the data sources to generate group membership suggestions for members of a given user's social network. Because the computing device suggests the group memberships, the given user may be more likely to assign members of the given user's social network to groups. When the given user shares posts on the social networking service, the given user can limit access to the posts to members of selected groups. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006880 | METHOD FOR FINDING ACTIONABLE COMMUNITIES WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS - A non-transitory computer storage medium stores a method that includes identifying a social network of a plurality of entities, each entity being associated with at least one other entity in the social network. A group of entities is identified from the plurality of entities that have expressed an interest in any one of a plurality of items. A primitive-community for each of the groups of entities is determined for each distinct item of the plurality of items. Common sets of entities are determined within each primitive-community associated with the each distinct item of the plurality of items based on a minimum support level, using a frequent itemset mining approach, where the first primitive community and the second primitive community are treated as transactions and entities are treated as items. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006881 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING RELEVANT USER FEEDBACK - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for sorting and outputting, base on relevancy, feedbacks to a user. For example, user characteristics of a user associated with viewing an item can be received directly from the user or from a social network profile associated with the user. The received user characteristics can be compared to user characteristics associated with feedbacks to yield respective degrees of similarity. Finally, the feedbacks can be output to the user based on the respective degrees of similarity. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006882 | PROMOTION VIA SOCIAL CURRENCY - In one aspect, the present disclosure describes a method that may include determining, for presentation to a first user as a user interface at a user computing device, interface information including a number of information posts. Each information post of the number of information posts may be associated with a respective interest level. The number of information posts may be arranged for presentation in a ranked order based in part upon the respective interest level of each information post of the number of information posts. A first user account may be associated with the first user. The method may further include providing the interface information for presentation at the user computing device. | 01-03-2013 |
20130013526 | SOCIAL NETWORKING JOB MATCHING TECHNOLOGY - Recruiting technology techniques are provided herein that match offers, such as jobs, with candidates, such as individuals, and vice versa, using the data available in social media profiles. Further, such recruiting technology uses semantic and statistical algorithms to reduce offer descriptions, such as job descriptions and candidate profiles into universal types. Two examples of universal types are job descriptions referred to herein as Job DNA™ and candidate descriptions referred to herein as Candidate DNA™. | 01-10-2013 |
20130018810 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARRANGING SOCIAL MEETINGS IN CONJUNCTION WITH SPACE/SEAT RESERVATIONSAANM VonAllmen; GeorgeAACI CincinnatiAAST OHAACO USAAGP VonAllmen; George Cincinnati OH US - Systems and methods for meeting new people outside the scope of a dating service or match making service are disclosed. In particular, the system connects the owners of “space/seat inventory” with their customers in a way that multiple customers with similar interests can interact with each other. As used herein, the phrase “space/seat inventory” means hotel rooms, airline seats, tour bus seats, cruise ship rooms, packaged vacation trips, and the like. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024389 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING BUSINESS-CENTRIC INFORMATION FROM A SOCIAL MEDIA OUTLET - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for extracting business centric information from a social media outlet are disclosed. For example, the method obtains a plurality of messages from a social media outlet, classifies a subset of the plurality of messages obtained from the social media outlet as problem messages, extracts problem phrases by extracting a problem phrase from each one of the problem messages, and correlates a problem to a third party entity with the problem phrases. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024390 | Method and System of Matching Transportation Routes online - A new algorithm is introduced to compare different transportation routes. Using the formula a special indicator I is calculated online. For the purpose of the Invention I may fluctuate from 0 to 1. If it is zero the two routes are fully matched, they are same routes. If I>1 there is no match at all. The smaller is I the better is the match. Based on this algorithm a Social Networking website is created connecting people on the move with different services providers and between themselves. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024391 | SOCIAL TRAVEL RECOMMENDATIONS - Members of a traveler's social network or “friends” are identified by a social recommendation service. The identified friends may possess knowledge regarding travel information of interest to the traveler. The identification may be based on locations of the friends and/or information of interest, selection criteria provided by the traveler, clickstream data for the friends, the relationship between the friends and the traveler, etc. The social recommendation service may additionally provide the traveler with identifying information enabling the user to communicate with the identified friend(s). | 01-24-2013 |
20130031013 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING OPTIMAL MEETING LOCATIONS - A method and system for automatically identifying optimal meeting locations. The method includes receiving a plurality of meeting parameters associated with one or more participants. The method also includes identifying a list of optimal meeting locations relevant to one or more of the plurality of meeting parameters. The method further includes ranking the list of optimal meeting locations. Further, the method includes enabling a user to select an optimal meeting location from the list of optimal meeting locations. The system includes one or more electronic devices and a user electronic device. The user electronic device includes a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. | 01-31-2013 |
20130036064 | Detached Economy in Online Game - Methods, systems, and computer programs for generating revenue in an online game are presented. One method includes an operation for creating, in the online game, a first virtual currency and a game score, where the amount of the first virtual currency can be increased in exchange for real currency. The first virtual currency can be traded for advancement in the online game. Further, a game module, that is an autonomous game within the online game, is started, and a second virtual currency and a module score are created in the game module. The amount of the second virtual currency can be increased in exchange for real currency, where the second virtual currency can be traded for advancement in the game module and cannot be traded for advancement in the online game outside of the game module. Advancement in the game module increases the module score and does not increase the game score. In addition, at least one form of advancement in the game module can be obtained with the second virtual currency and cannot be obtained with the first virtual currency. | 02-07-2013 |
20130036065 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING JOB CANDIDATES, SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND RECRUITERS TO FACILITATE THE RECRUITING PROCESS - In general, the invention relates to a method for identifying a job candidate. The method includes determining new job characteristics for the new job using a job record corresponding to the new job, identifying an old job using the new job characteristics and old job characteristics, where the old job is similar to the new job and where a similarity between the old job and the new job is quantified using a job similarity factor. The method further includes selecting a job candidate, where the job candidate has applied for the old job, determining a candidate matching factor for the job candidate based on the old job, determining a rating for the job candidate using the job similarity factor and the candidate matching factor for the job candidate, and identifying the job candidate to contact about the job based on the rating. | 02-07-2013 |
20130041834 | Integrated Gourmet Item Data Collection, Recommender and Vending System and Method - Items—including gourmet products—are evaluated and rated by participants in a controlled event, which can be coordinated by software locally or at a dedicated website. Event data, including item scores and participant scores can be shared with vendors, merchants and other commercial entities associated with the products. Promotional incentives from such entities for the products (and related products) can then be directly targeted and provided to participants and other members of the public. The participant's activities can also be collected and disseminated to affiliates/friends of the participants through social networking sites, personalized web pages, etc. | 02-14-2013 |
20130046702 | PERFORMING FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT - Financial activities may be performed in a social networking environment. To perform the financial activities, a first message is received to create a first financial goal associated with a user. The first message comprises the first financial goal and a reward for achieving the first financial goal. The first financial goal is available for display in a social networking environment associated with the user. A processor creates the first financial goal associated with the user and stores the first financial goal. The status of the first financial goal is monitored. Information associated with the first financial goal is received from a data source, and the processor updates the status of the first financial goal according to the received information. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046703 | Smart Communications for Power Consumption Information - A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for communicating power consumption information. The method includes comparing power consumption information of at least one user with power consumption information of at least one peer user to generate a ranking of each user in order of power consumption, monitoring the user power consumption derived from non-smart appliance usage and to generate a recommendation pertaining to at least one smart appliance for the at least one user, and publishing the generated ranking and recommendation information to a network for communication with the at least one user. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054479 | DETERMINING LIKELIHOOD OF CUSTOMER ATTRITION OR RETENTION - A method identifies one or more customers likely of attriting. The method includes collecting a first set of customer data from one or more social networks in which the customer is a member, where the first set of customer data is indicative of a degree of connection of each of a plurality of connections within the one or more social networks. The method then collects a second set of customer data, where the second set of customer data comprises data available to an entity based on prior interactions between the entity and the customer. Next, the second set of customer data is analyzed to identify any negative interactions between the entity and the customer. Finally, information regarding the identified negative interactions is correlated with the first set of customer data to identify one or more connections as customers of the entity at risk of attriting. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054480 | DETERMINING NETWORK VALUE OF CUSTOMER - A method determines a network value of a customer by collecting a first set of customer data from one or more social networks in which the customer is a member, where the first set of customer data is indicative of a number and quality of each of a plurality of connections within the one or more social networks. The method then collects a second set of customer data, where the second set of customer data includes data available to an entity based on prior interactions between the entity and the customer and analyzes, using a processing device, the first set of customer data and the second set of customer data. Then the method determines, using a processing device, the network value of the customer based at least in part on the analysis of the first set of customer data and the second set of customer data. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054481 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING, ANALYZING AND CONSOLIDATING MEDICAL DATA IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - This disclosure describes a system and methodology for sharing, analyzing and consolidating medical data on social networks in a well secured manner. It allows patients, medical professionals, and caregivers participate in an open media without the fear of their personal information being compromised. At the same time, it allows each user to benefit from analysis of clinical information available on network. It facilitates sharing of information with chosen contacts in a specific manner such that the visibility of information can be configured on individual basis. More importantly, it facilitates the creation of authentic source of medical database at the backend that can be made available for research and analytics on preserving privacy. | 02-28-2013 |
20130073473 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERACTIONS USING ONLINE CONSUMER BROWSING BEHAVIOR, BUYING PATTERNS, ADVERTISEMENTS AND AFFILIATE ADVERTISING, FOR PROMOTIONS, ONLINE COUPONS, MOBILE SERVICES, PRODUCTS, GOODS & SERVICES, ENTERTAINMENT AND AUCTIONS, WITH GEOSPATIAL MAPPING TECHNOLOGY - Systems and methods are provided using combined technologies for social networking interactions using tracking, predicting, and implementing online consumer communications, browsing behavior, buying patterns, and advertisements and affiliate advertising and communications, for online coupons, mobile services, products, goods & services, entertainment shopping, auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results for targeting and filtering of promotions, online coupons, mobile services, products, goods & services, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or services on a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology, company-local information, social networking, and social networking communities (“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”). | 03-21-2013 |
20130073474 | SOCIAL NETWORK AND LOCATION-BASED EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present disclosure is directed to an online and mobile location-based system blending social, security and communication components to help persons, including youth, find employment and internship opportunities within a community. Utilizing users' social networks, geo-location, dynamic and real-time information feeds, and proprietary prediction and security technologies, the disclosed system provides a system to create validated personal profiles for job seekers and posters, to browse and search job listings, to communicate about with other users about employment opportunities. The present invention also assists job posters and organizations to communicate about available projects within their hyper-local area. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073475 | System and Method for Creating, Contributing to and Measuring Progress Towards a Common Objective - The invention provides users with a centralized location to visually represent a objective or common objective and invite members of a defined community to contribute towards achieving the objective. The invention monitors progress as community members begin to contribute towards the objective, creating a clear and measurable method of determining advancement towards achieving the objective. This system can be used in multiple contexts, but is particularly well suited for scenarios such as gift or wedding registries where “group give” functionality becomes necessary. The system provides the ability to create a visual representation of a product such as gift, segment the product, and allow for multiple persons (i.e. the community of wedding guests) to simultaneously monitor progress and contribute towards the objective. | 03-21-2013 |
20130073476 | COMMUNITY GIFT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An organizer freely designates a purpose, forms a community, very easily and efficiently collects money from participants, and gives a gift. To accomplish this, a community gift system that, when giving a gift to a specified recipient, allows an organizer and participants to form a community and collect money in the community as a cost of gift giving, includes a generator that generates a community database including name data of the organizer and data of the recipient in response to access via a network from the organizer who plans the gift giving, and a storage unit that accepts payment of money via the network from a participant who has approved of the gift giving, and stores data of the paid money in the community database so that the money can be used as the cost of the gift giving. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080345 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING VEHICLE INFORMATION IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK - A system and method for sharing vehicle information in a social networking system is disclosed. In one example, the method includes receiving identification information and vehicle information relating to a plurality of vehicles, including the vehicle information relating to the first vehicle and an identification of a first vehicle associated with a first user, storing the identification information and the vehicle information relating to the plurality of vehicles in the social networking system, comparing the identification information and the vehicle information relating to the first vehicle to the identification information and the vehicle information relating to the plurality of vehicles to determine at least one relation between the first vehicle and the plurality of vehicles, and transmitting to a plurality of users statistical information based on the at least one relation, associated with the first vehicle and the plurality of vehicles defined in the social networking system. | 03-28-2013 |
20130085953 | Assessing Social Risk Due To Exposure From Linked Contacts - An approach is provided in which a risk assessment is performed that accesses the risk to a user of an information handling system due to the user's link to a social network contact. Risky action values is received with the values corresponding to the social network contact. A risk level is calculated with the risk level corresponding to one or more of the risky action values. A preventative security action is then performed based on the calculated risk level. In another embodiment, an approach is provided in which the potential risks posed by a user are transmitted to the user's social network contacts. In this approach, potentially risky actions that are performed by the user are detected. Risky action values are identified that correspond to the detected potentially risky actions. The risky action values are then transmitted to the user's social network contacts over a computer network. | 04-04-2013 |
20130091067 | System and a Method for Matching Members - A system and a method for matching members where the system comprises a database being configured for at least storing information obtained from registered members seeking to be matched with other registered members. A server executes a computer-executable program being configured for processing information from said database and identifying potential matches of registered members. A client executes a computer-executable application being configured for presenting the potential matches and information of the matched members to users electing to vote on a likelihood of successes of the matches. Said computer-executable application is further configured for transferring votes to said database to be processed by said computer-executable program for aggregating votes and maintaining statistical values. Said computer-executable application is further configured for presenting, to a registered member, identified potential matches for the member and statistical values indicating likelihood of successes of the matches. | 04-11-2013 |
20130091068 | Formation of Special Interest Groups - Special interest subgroups are formed by a group of participants by establishing a profile for each participant. The profile defines contribution attributes dealing with contributions the profiled participant might make to a subgroup and attribution attributes dealing with benefits the profile participant might receive from participating in the subgroup. For each possible pairing of participants in the group, an overall contribution score and an overall benefit score is calculated for each participant. A mutual benefit score is calculated by combining the benefit scores for both participants in the pair. Participants are assigned to subgroups as a function of participant contribution and mutual benefit scores. | 04-11-2013 |
20130110731 | Online Dating System | 05-02-2013 |
20130110732 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING TRUSTWORTHINESS OF USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK | 05-02-2013 |
20130132293 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING AGENTS OR ADVISORS WITH POTENTIAL CLIENTS - A web-based system and method for matching potential clients with agents and/or advisors using personality compatibility ranking. The method including preselecting agents based on geographic location and determining compatibility primarily based on guardedness. The method including steps for resolving ranking ties. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132294 | System and Method for Engaging a Social Network - A method of engaging a consumer's social network includes promoting a potential gift to members of the consumer's social network, soliciting and receiving contributions to the gift from members of the consumer's social network, and determining whether a trigger condition has been met. The method then provides a gift to the consumer, and the gift may include one or more conditional contributions from the vendor of the gift item, depending on the whether the trigger condition has been met. | 05-23-2013 |
20130151429 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORK USAGE - According to an embodiment, a computing system includes at least one computing device including a processor configured to use a logistic regression model to provide an indication of a relationship between a user's position within an enterprise and how the user interacts with other users of an enterprise social network. | 06-13-2013 |
20130166465 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOCIAL TAGGING AND LOCATION-BASED RESUME-RELATED AND NETWORKING APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing a talent network. According to one embodiment, an application may be used by both job applicants and human resources and recruiting managers to create tag endorsements, conduct on-the-go networking, and to apply for jobs directly from the mobile device. The application may be run on either a mobile device or a desktop or a networked computer. While the disclosed application may be run on a desktop computer, mobile devices may allow a user to fully utilize all of the features of the application. Mobile devices may include smart phones, tablet computers, or laptop computers. Each user's mobile devices may connect to one or more centralized servers for the application that store the user's personal profile, tags, and location. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166466 | SOCIAL NETWORKS AND CAREER MANAGEMENT - Computer and mobile digital communication device users share career, vocational, self-employment, and/or volunteer position information in order to receive career planning. Users receive assessments and/or evaluations and manage their educational and/or career development paths. Jobs that are suitable for the user being evaluated are determined in relation to the career interests of the user. The current educational level of the user is matched to the job to identify gaps in at least one of educational or skill prerequisites to attaining the job. Then, resources, such as classes, publications, educational training programs or internship programs, are offered to the user being evaluated to fill in the gaps. To defray the cost of making such resources available to the user, a pool of users of the social network are notified and given the opportunity to be responsible for gifting one or more of the identified resources to the user being evaluated. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173485 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD TO CHARACTERISE SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND PREDICT BEHAVIOUR OF A USER - It is characterised in that it comprises creating with computing means a multidimensional profile of a user including at least a prediction of behaviour of said user and a characterisation of social influence of said user, said prediction of behaviour comprising:
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20130173486 | COLLABORATION CLOUD - A collaboration cloud system generates a business task and identifies participants of the business task, a process of the business task, communications among participants, and documents and objects associated with the business task. A collaborative display for the business task is generated for the participants to collaborate on the business task. The collaborative display identifies the participants of the business task, the process of the business task, the communications among participants, and the documents and objects associated with the business task. | 07-04-2013 |
20130198096 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHIPPING VIA A SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods for shipping to be executed within the framework of a social networking system or social network using information managed within the social networking system through interfaces to carriers that perform the shipping are provided. Shipping registration information for a first user of a social networking system is received, wherein the shipping registration information includes a physical address and at least one authorized payment mechanism. A request by the first user to ship a physical item to a second user of the social networking system is received at the social networking system. Shipping information including a physical address is obtained from the second user. A shipping label for shipping the physical item is generated and provided to the first user for shipping the physical item to the second user. | 08-01-2013 |
20130218792 | System and Method of Determining Relationship Information - A method includes classifying a relationship between a first group and each of one or more additional groups based on at least one of a number of communications during a time period and a frequency of the communications. The communications are between one or more members of the first group and one or more members of each of the one or more additional groups. The method includes generating social network data based on the relationship between the first group and each of the one or more additional groups. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226820 | DETERMINING ADVOCACY METRICS BASED ON USER GENERATED CONTENT - Techniques for determining an advocacy metric for a particular person are described. User generated content (UGC) authored by the particular person may be received. Each of the plurality of UGC items may be associated with the particular person's opinion of a respective particular one of the plurality of goods or services. An advocacy metric, indicative of a degree of advocacy for the particular person, for the plurality of goods or services, may be determined for the particular person based on the plurality of UGC items. | 08-29-2013 |
20130238517 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A SOCIAL NETWORK MAP OF NON-VOICE COMMUNICATIONS - A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for creating a social network map using non-voice communications are disclosed. For example, the method registers employment data of an employee, monitors non-voice communications of the employee, generates a social network map of the non-voice communications of the employee and analyzes the social network map to provide at least one correlation. | 09-12-2013 |
20130262332 | Entity-Focused Social Media Method and System - A social media that enables the user to create a personal space affiliated with an interest, in which the user may share individual data. The user may interact with other users who share the interest, in a virtual interaction area. The user may be allowed to permit escorted or unescorted friends limited access to the user's personal space and the interaction spaces to which they belong. The user may also interact with other users who share a related interest, but prefer an alternate competitor entity in the field of interest. Alternate competitor interaction may provide users from each competitor entity limited special insight into the particular competitor entity, to enrich the interaction experience of users from both entities. The user may establish multiple personal spaces, and link their individual interests through one personal space to another, so as to share insight into those other interests with the other users. | 10-03-2013 |
20130282602 | TaxiZag - TaxiZag is a real-time software system that is implemented on the platform of cloud computing and smart phones. The system can be used by both taxi customers and taxi drivers for intelligently finding a taxi and a customer, respectively. The system is designed to achieve the most efficient and direct communication between a taxi customer and a taxi driver. The users of TaxiZag, in an automated fashion, feed data into and fetch data from the backend cloud computing platform to assist yourself and others. Additionally, users are allowed to check traffic conditions ahead based on the data provided by other application users. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282603 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SOCIAL CUSTOMER CARE SYSTEM - The present invention relates to customer relationship management systems integrated with social media and social networks. More particularly, the invention provides a social customer care platform system to allow customer care functions, and in particular to allow customer service agents to identify, prioritize, match and triage customer support requests that may arise through a social network and may be serviced using a social network. It manages and tracks a high-volume of customer interactions and provides for monitoring of Internet social network posts relevant to a business's products or services along with the ability to capture, monitor, filter, make sense of and respond to, in real-time, tens of thousands of social interactions. It comprises role specific user-interface and functionality to match customer service environments, automated prioritization and matching for increased agent productivity, and an automated enterprise workflow to align social media support with existing business processes. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282604 | Adaptive collaboration platform and method for enabling forward and backward linkages between business entities - A method for suggesting to a first business entity to connect with a second business entity on a network of business entities. The method includes (i) obtaining a first industry type of the first business entity from a profile information of the first business entity, (ii) automatically identifying a second industry type based on (a) the first industry type, and (b) a predefined industry linkage, (iii) automatically identifying the second business entity associated with the second industry type, and (iv) displaying a suggestion to the first business entity to connect with the second business entity. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290202 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS ON A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system for managing communications on a social network is provided. A profile management module manages a set of user profiles. Individual user profiles in the set of user profiles are respectively associated with a set of sports profiles. A compliance management module flags one of the user profiles in the set of user profiles in response to receipt of a flag request. The compliance management module sends a communication transmitted to or transmitted from the user profile in response to a determination that the user profile is flagged when the communication is transmitted. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290203 | Social Checkout Widget Generation and Integration Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - The SOCIAL CHECKOUT WIDGET GENERATION AND INTEGRATION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CWI”) transforms developer credentials, codes and parameter inputs via the CWI component into buy widgets, payment acceptance and purchase transaction outputs. In one embodiment, the CWI may facilitate obtaining a plurality of authentication parameters and widget customization parameters. The CWI may authenticate a user using a parameter derived from the plurality of authentication parameters and may dynamically generate a purchase widget for the authenticated user using the plurality of widget customization parameters. | 10-31-2013 |
20130304658 | INFERRING USER PROFILE ATTRIBUTES FROM SOCIAL INFORMATION - User profile information for a user of a social networking system is inferred based on information about user profile of the user's connections in the social networking system. The inferred user profile attributes may include age, gender, education, affiliations, location, and the like. To infer a value of a user profile attribute, the system may determine an aggregate value based on the attributes of the user's connections. A confidence score may also be associated with the inferred attribute value. The set of connections analyzed to infer a user profile attribute may depend on the attribute, the types of connections, and the interactions between the user and the connections. The inferred attribute values may be used to update the user's profile and to determine information relevant to the user to be presented to the user (e.g., targeting advertisements to the user based on the user's inferred attributes). | 11-14-2013 |
20130325733 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING AN ENTERPRISE APPLICATION WITH A SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATION - Disclosed is an approach for integrating one or more enterprise applications with a social networking application. Integration is provided between a CRM application and the social networking application. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332378 | Methods and Systems for Integrated Social Media, Strategy, and Organizational Hierarchy - Methods and systems for integrated social media, strategy, and organizational hierarchy are described. A method for integrated social media, strategy, and organizational hierarchy includes the steps of receiving information associated with organization members, the information including a name and an email address of each organization member. The information is arranged into an organization hierarchy, a format for presenting the organization hierarchy is determined, and the organization hierarchy is presented in a graphical user interface according to the determined format. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332379 | Method and Apparatus for Mobile Video Sharing - A system allows for disseminating information about a user's experience with an entity. The system has processor for communication with a plurality of computers in a network. The system processor is configured to: (i) store in a memory a data structure comprising data items representative of a profile of the user, a profile of the entity and a video representative of the experience of the user with the entity; (ii) receive video data from at least one of the plurality of remote computers; (iii) associate the video data with the profile of the user and the profile of the entity to generate the data structure; and (iv) provide experience data to remote computers in accordance with criteria associated with the user profile and the entity profile wherein the provided data pertains to the user profile, the entity profile, and the video data. | 12-12-2013 |
20130346329 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR SOCIAL DATA SHARING CAPABILITIES FOR ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for enabling a display of updates to enterprise information in a social feed are described herein. A social subscription component receives instructions from a user pertaining to an enterprise information system entity and creates an enterprise information update rule or conditions corresponding to the instructions. A social data storage component stores the enterprise information update rule. A social content generation component monitors updates to data stored in an enterprise information system, tests any updates against the enterprise information update rule(s), if applicable accesses data related to those updates, and generates social posts pertaining to the updates for display to the user. A social user interface component may format and presents the social posts to the user. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346330 | GENERATING AUDIENCE RESPONSE METRICS AND RATINGS FROM SOCIAL INTEREST IN TIME-BASED MEDIA - Social media content items are mapped to relevant time-based media events. These mappings are used as the basis for calculating metrics based upon the mappings, and ratings of the time-based media there from. Audience response metrics (ARMs) are calculated from the mappings, which provide an indication of audience engagement or response. In addition, ARMs provide information about the virality, depth, and breadth of the response by the viewing audience. The calculated metrics are stored and are used to generate ratings for the time-based media. The ratings may be published in whole or in part, e.g., as part of a ratings system. | 12-26-2013 |
20140006297 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFERRING VALUE VIA A SOCIAL NETWORK | 01-02-2014 |
20140006298 | ADAPTIVE RATING SYSTEM AND METHOD | 01-02-2014 |
20140012769 | Promoting Participation of Low-Activity Users in Social Networking System - Method or system for allowing a social networking system to retain users of a social networking system by identifying low-activity users who are likely to become inactive/dormant users and prompting users to initiate interactions with the low-activity users. The low-activity users are identified by monitoring activities and interactions of the users via the social networking system. If the pattern of activities and interactions satisfy one or more criteria, a computer device for providing the social networking system initiates an intervention scheme where users are induced to initiate interactions with the low-activity users. In response to the interactions, the low-activity users are likely to resume interactions via the social networking system. | 01-09-2014 |
20140025595 | APPLYING FOR A JOB USING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION - Systems and methods for displaying a user interface object associated with a job candidate's social networking site proximate to a job listing presented by a website are described. When a job candidate selects the user interface object, the systems and methods identify and/or obtain information associated with the job candidate that is located or otherwise stored at the social networking site of which the job candidate is a member. Once the information is identified and/or obtained, the systems and methods provide the information to the website, such as to a job application submission system associated with the website. | 01-23-2014 |
20140025596 | Presenting job listings based on the viewer of a webpage - Systems and methods for displaying job listings via a website are described. In some examples, the systems identify information associated with a viewer of a website, and selectively display job listing information based of the information associated with the viewer of the website, such as information attributed to the viewer within a social network of which the viewer is a member. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032434 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE COMPATIBILITY AND FACILITATE MATCHING - The present invention relates to a system-implemented method of determining compatibility and facilitating matching between users of the method. More particularly, the present invention caters to users who include single individuals as well as their families and helps to ensure a match not only in physical attributes, socio-cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, and values and ideals, but also in interests, aspirations, lifestyles, personality traits, and relationship goals and, consequently, time frames for marriage. The present invention provides users with a selective, stage-based profile privacy control mechanism, allowing them to control which prospects may view which specific fields or sections of their profile and at what stage of their interactions with those prospects. Further, the present invention collects and processes not only users' partner preferences but also information on the relative importance of the various indicated preferences both across possible matching criteria and within each criterion. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040152 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FAKE ACCOUNT DETECTION BY CLUSTERING - Techniques to determine fake accounts of a social networking system. In one embodiment, a magnitude of a cluster of accounts is calculated. The social networking system determines the accounts are fake when the magnitude of the cluster is less than a threshold value. The accounts are not determined to be fake, or determined to be not fake, when the magnitude of the cluster is equal to or greater than the threshold value. The accounts may be associated with at least one resource. A mapping of the accounts may be created based on features associated with the accounts. A radius of the cluster is compared with the threshold value. The accounts are determined to be fake when the radius is less than the threshold value. | 02-06-2014 |
20140046861 | Method and System for Representing Collective and Individual Responses to a Shared Experience Event - A web-based application for use on a mobile device allows a user to provide response input indicating the user's current positive/negative response, opinion, reaction, to an event or other shared experience and “publish” the response input data by broadcasting it to one or more other users or by providing the response input data to a centralized or distributed database or other repository of response input data from other individuals experiencing the same event. The application may acquire response input data from the repository or directly from one or more other users and display acquired response input data graphically or in some other concise and meaningful format that visually conveys the acquired response input data collectively and/or by individuals or groups or subgroups of individuals, thereby providing a means to acquire and characterize the time varying responses, opinions, and reactions of a population sharing the experience of an event or other stimulus. | 02-13-2014 |
20140052655 | Sponsor Assignment - The present application describes methods, systems, and apparatuses for assigning sponsors to a new member of a commerce platform. One or more of a plurality of existing members of the commerce platform with connections to a new member are identified. The social commerce platform is configured to cause display, on a device associated with the new member, a list of the one or more of the plurality of existing members to enable selection of one of the existing members in whose network within the commerce platform the new member will participate. The social commerce platform is configured to select one of the existing members in whose network within the commerce platform the new member will participate based at least on relative strengths of the connections. | 02-20-2014 |
20140052656 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMBINATION SOCIAL AND BUSINESS NETWORK - In a system and method for providing social business-networking, a social interface is provided between the first user and each of the plurality of second users. The social interface comprises a social user interface for social content sharing between the first user and the plurality of second users. A professional relationship may also be established between the first user and an employer. A résumé may be automatically generated for the first user. A professional interface is provided between the first user and the employer. | 02-20-2014 |
20140058965 | Social Network System and Method of Operation - A method of forming unique, private, personal, virtual social networks on a social network system that includes a database storing data relating to corresponding user entities. The method includes: a first user entity sending an invitation to a second user entity, recording in the database the second user entity as a direct contact of the first user entity and determining that third user entities, directly connected to the second user entity, are indirect contacts. A unique, personal, social network formed from direct and indirect contacts is thereby created for each user entity. Each user entity is able to control privacy of its data with respect to other user entities depending on the connection factor to that other entity and/or that other entity's attributes. Each user entity is able to take the role of provider or participant in applications where the provider provides an item or service to the participant. | 02-27-2014 |
20140058966 | System and Method for Delivering Serialized Stories - A method of electronically delivering a story via self-renewing subscription in serial format to a reader. The reader subscribes to the story on the web through an application on her portable device, the reader chooses the form in which she would like to receive inter-narrative and super-narrative messages and provides the information for delivery of such messages, serial story segments are sent out via a content delivery system to the reader in regular intervals, with the delivery system tracking the time of delivery, and inter-narrative and super-narrative messages are sent to the reader. | 02-27-2014 |
20140067701 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND DEVELOPING MUSICAL TALENT FROM A REMOTE LOCATION - The teachings generally relate to a method of creating a derivative artistic work that includes a select, virtual submission from the public obtained from a set of random, virtual submissions submitted, for example, through a network or public venue. The teachings are directed a virtual studio, a method of creating a derivative, multi-track musical work that includes a virtual performance from the public. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067702 | Method and System for Dynamically Publishing, Sharing, Communication and Subscribing - A system & method for dynamically publishing, sharing, communication & subscribing and dynamically presenting and allow to auto subscribe publisher specific active links and associate objects & data of other services, applications, networks, groups, widgets & objects of publishers to users of network is described. A method includes dynamically present selected publishing type or service specific input system, presentations and application features to publisher and subscriber for managing publishing specific contents, shared data, communications & messages, subscribers, privacy settings, user actions, workflow and managing subscribed contents, communications, messages, subscriptions, privacy settings, user actions, workflow. A method further includes publisher can dynamically publish active links and associate objects & data for other services, applications, web site features, widgets, objects, multimedia contents of publisher and allow users of network to search, select, subscribe or auto install & attach said active links with user profile based on privacy settings. | 03-06-2014 |
20140081879 | SOCIAL MEDIA PARTICIPANT ECONOMIC BENEFIT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A social media exchange center is disclosed to communicate likes between social media participants in exchange for economic benefits. The center includes categories of the social media participants created in accordance with a level of social participation between and among members of a group of social media participants. A location aware system monitors a location of at least one portion of the group of social media participants. An economic benefit system exchanges leads or tips on retailers products or services for economic benefits responsive to the location of the at least one portion of the group of social media participants between and among groups of social media participants in accordance with the level of social participation between and among the members of the group social media participants. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081880 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A content management system disclosed communicates between commercial participants and social media participants connected by a social media network including a location-centric system that tracks store locations of its commercial participants relative to a location of one or more mobile communication devices of one or more portions of social media participants. A product and service licensing center categorizes the commercial participants in accordance with a level of economic benefit participation in relationship to the location of the one or more mobile communication devices of the social media participants. The level of economic benefit participation provided by its commercial participants determines a scaled commercial relationship between marketing of the commercial participants to the one or more mobile communication devices of the social media participants | 03-20-2014 |
20140081881 | SOCIAL NETWORK BASED MAPPING - A method and system for mapping in accordance with social networking data. The method includes receiving data associated with a user. A computer processor periodically retrieves explicit and implicit social networking data associated with the user. The computer processor analyzes the explicit social networking data, the implicit social networking data, and the first data and generates resulting analysis data. The computer processor generates different travel routes from an initial user location to a user specified destination. Each travel route comprises various stopping points associated with locations of individuals related to the user. Graphical images associated with the individual are generated and presented to the user in combination with graphical representations of the different travel routes via a multifaceted display of each travel route. | 03-20-2014 |
20140081882 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONNECTING USERS WITH ATTENDEES AT A MEGA ATTENDANCE EVENT - The technology disclosed relates to identifying and notifying a user of nearby attendees at a mega attendance event who are in user's social graph by comparing the user's social graph to a list of event attendees. The identified attendees can be stratified into social graph tags that annotate, categorize and prioritize other users in the user's social graph. The technology disclosed also relates to identifying and notifying the user of nearby attendees of sessions at the event who meet introduction preferences of the user by finding matches between introduction preference attributes specified by the user and attributes of the attendees provided by the list of event attendees. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089216 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING JOB SEEKING BEHAVIOR - Embodiments of the present invention analyze information available from social-media websites to predict the likelihood that a prospective candidate will become an active recruitment candidate. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089217 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL RECRUITING - A system for social recruiting including an employment system server including a user database, where the user database includes a recruiter profile and a job seeker profile, and a recruiter network for the recruiter profile includes the recruiter profile associated with the job seeker profile. | 03-27-2014 |
20140101064 | Systems and Methods for Automated Reprogramming of Displayed Content - The present invention relates to systems and methods for autonomously reprogramming displayed content. A desired result is identified. A psychological profile is accessed for the user. The psychological profile includes a persistent user identification which enables access to the profile across a wide range of content providers. The persistent user identification is stored locally with the user as a cookie, and is associated with usernames the user has for each content provider. Content is selected for by maximizing probabilities of the desired result occurring based upon the psychological profile. The content is then provided to the content provider, and feedback is collected. This feedback is used to update the psychological profile. If the feedback is negative, the system may re-select content by maximizing the probability of the desired result occurring based upon the updated psychological profile. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108281 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - Methods and system for social commerce network analysis are described. In one embodiment, a strongly connected component value, an in-component value, an out-component value, a disconnected component value, a tendril value, and a tube value of a social network for a time period may be accessed. A social strength of the social network for the time period may be calculated by combining the strongly connected component value, the in-component value, the out-component value, the disconnected component value, the tendril value, and the tube value. The social strength of the social network for the time period may be utilized for analysis of the social network. The strongly connected component value may have a greatest weight and the disconnected component value may have the lowest weight in the combining. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108282 | ADAPTIVE RATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention is embodied in adaptive rating methods and systems. The adaptive rating method includes receiving a first rating for a first product from a user, receiving a second rating for a second product from the user, identifying a conflict with a processor by comparing the first rating and the second rating, soliciting feedback from the user to remedy the conflict, and adjusting at least one of the first or second ratings with the processor responsive to feedback from the user. The steps of the method may be embodied in computer executable instructions stored on a non-transient machine readable medium that cause a processor to perform the method when executed by the processor. The system includes a processor configured to perform the steps of the method. | 04-17-2014 |
20140122354 | Automated Omnipresent Real-time Credibility Management System and Methods - Some embodiments provide a credibility management system that aggregates user posts from several social media sites contemporaneously with the posts being published to those sites. The system parses each of the aggregated posts to identify an entity that is targeted in each of the posts and presents the posts to the targeted entities in a real-time manner. The credibility management system computes a score to determine the impact that a user post would have on the credibility of a targeted entity. By presenting the computed scores and aggregated posts to the targeted entities, the credibility management system notifies the targeted entities about what is being said about them across social media, identifies the impact of those posts, and provides a platform whereby the targeted entities can reply in order to mitigate or improve the impact that the posts would have on credibility. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129459 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOCIAL MEDIA INTEGRATION INTO BUSINESS APPLICATIONS - A method and system to receive business data related to an entity from a business application; determine at least one social media network to access by the business application; query the at least one social media network, based on search criteria derived from the business data, for unique identifiers of the at least one social media network associated with the entity; and determine a true identifier of the entity for the at least one social media network based on the unique identifiers and the business data. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136432 | USING SOCIAL NETWORK CONNECTIONS TO RECOMMEND MERCHANTS AND PRODUCTS - The invention provides a computer-implemented method for using social network connections to recommend merchants and products. The method comprises receiving a set of transaction data from a plurality of transactions, the transaction data comprising an identity of one or more customers and information relating to the experience of the customer with the transaction; categorizing the transaction data; storing the transaction data in a database; receiving a request from a user network device associated with a user, the request comprising the identity of a merchant or a product associated with a website; searching the social graph of the user for instances of the one or more customers; identifying one or more contacts in the social graph of the user that are in the database; and communicating the experiences of the contacts in the social graph of the user that are in the database to the user network device. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136433 | REFERRING MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK AS JOB CANDIDATES - Systems and methods for referring members of a social network as job candidates are described. In some examples, the systems and methods receive information associated with a job or a company associated with a job, identify members of a social network based on attributes for the members, and perform an action (e.g., send an email or update a widget on a profile page) associated with a member of the social network that is connected to the identified members and affiliated with the company. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136434 | REFERRING MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK AS JOB CANDIDATES - Systems and methods for referring members of a social network as job candidates are described. In some examples, the systems and methods receive information associated with a job or a company associated with a job, identify members of a social network based on attributes for the members, and perform an action (e.g., send an email or update a widget on a profile page) associated with a member of the social network that is connected to the identified members and affiliated with the company. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136435 | SOCIAL MEDIA AND TRANSACTION DISPLAY SYSTEM - Systems and methods for displaying transaction data and social media are provided. In an embodiment, a receiver and record generation module generates a record of a transaction performed by a user. A transmission module sends a request for social media data related to the transaction and about the user to a network-based social platform. A receiver module receives at least one piece of social media data. A signal generation module provides a rendering signal instructing a client device to render at least a portion of the record of the transaction and the at least one piece of social media data. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143163 | USER CHARACTERISTICS-BASED SPONSORED JOB POSTINGS - A system may include a network interface, a user interface, and a recommendation engine. The user interface may be configured to receive a job characteristic of a job profile of a job posted to the social network and a job bid from an entity related to job to the social network. The recommendation engine may be configured to determine an aggregate job score for the user based on a relevance of the job characteristic to a user characteristic and the job bid. The network interface may be configured to transmit a message related to the job to the user based, at least in part, on the aggregate job score. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143164 | TECHNIQUES FOR QUANTIFYING THE JOB-SEEKING PROPENSITY OF MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE - Techniques are described herein for deriving, for each member of a social network service, a metric representing the job-seeking propensity of the member. Additionally, techniques for classifying each member with a job-seeking status (e.g., active job-seeker, passive job-seeker, or non-job-seeker) are described. A score-generating algorithm will analyze a variety of input data—including member profile data, social graph data, and activity or behavior data—to derive a job-seeker score, representing the job-seeking propensity of a member. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143165 | CUSTOMIZING A USER-EXPERIENCE BASED ON A JOB-SEEKER SCORE - Techniques are described herein for deriving, for each member of a social network service, a metric representing the job-seeking propensity of the member. Additionally, techniques for classifying each member with a job-seeking status (e.g., active job-seeker, passive job-seeker, or non-job-seeker) are described. A score-generating algorithm will analyze a variety of input data—including member profile data, social graph data, and activity or behavior data—to derive a job-seeker score, representing the job-seeking propensity of a member. Once derived, the metric is used to customize, personalize or otherwise tailor a user-experience. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143166 | IDENTIFYING MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK AS CANDIDATE REFERRAL SOURCES - Systems and methods for identifying members of a social network service as job referral sources are described. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods may receive or access information associated with an available job, and for a member of a social network that is affiliated with the available job (e.g., is employed by the company providing the available job), identify a connection within the social network that is a suitable job referral source by utilizing an algorithmic process that determines the suitability of members connected to the identified connection as candidates for the available job. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143167 | IDENTIFYING MEMBERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORK AS CANDIDATE REFERRAL SOURCES - Systems and methods for identifying members of a social network service as candidate referral sources are described. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods may receive or access information associated with an available job, and for a member of a social network that is affiliated with the available job (e.g., is employed by the company providing the available job), identify a connection within the social network that is a suitable candidate referral source by utilizing an algorithmic process that determines the suitability of members connected to the identified connection as candidates for the available job. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149301 | SOCIAL NETWORK DRIVEN SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND DESIGN - A social network driven system and methods directed to the planning and design of an environment that enables users to share and exchange information related to components and elements related to the parcel as well as the consequences or impact of a particular architectural landscape. | 05-29-2014 |
20140164270 | Method, system and computer readable medium for recommending medium users - The present disclosure provides a method for recommending medium users, which may include: determining a group of first users required to be recommended according to ranking information of respective first users and a behaviour model of a second user; filtering the group of first users required to be recommended according to a user relationship chain of the second user or saturation information of the group of first users; recommending a first user of the filtered group of first users to the second user. The present disclosure also provides a system for recommending medium users. Through the method and system according to the present disclosure, medium users may be recommended in a fair and reasonable manner | 06-12-2014 |
20140172729 | SOCIAL NETWORK SYSTEM WITH CORRELATION OF BUSINESS RESULTS AND RELATIONSHIPS - A system that generates a social network and correlates business results within that social network receives, from an enterprise application, a business object, an associated system of record and corresponding enterprise members. The system generates a social object for the social network, where the social object corresponds to the business object. The system assigns social members to the social object and receives any changes to the business object. The system then correlates the change in the business object to each of the enterprise members and social members via the social object. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172730 | Method to Track Transfer of Goods - A method to track transfer of goods on a social networking service, which includes associating at least one unique product identification number with at least a first user profile on a social network service and facilitating transfer of the at least one unique product identification number from the first user profile to a second user profile on a social network service. | 06-19-2014 |
20140180941 | SEARCHING FOR CANDIDATES FOR A JOB - Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and computer systems for acquiring talent for organizations. Multiple job criteria that collectively represent requirements for a job are received. Multiple computer-readable storage media are identified, each of which stores social associations of multiple persons in a respective format. Each medium is searched for a person who has at least some social associations that match at least some of the multiple job criteria by comparing the job criteria transformed into the respective format of each medium with social associations stored in each medium. Persons identified in response to search each medium are provided as job candidates for the job. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180942 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKELY TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIP - The functions and operations of a matching service are disclosed. This includes approximating the satisfaction that a user of the matching service has in the relationships that the user forms with others and identifying candidates for a relationship with the user based on the approximated satisfaction. This also includes approximating the satisfaction that the user will have in a relationship with a particular candidate. The matching service also identifies two parties for a relationship. The matching service makes available a plurality of communication levels at which the parties can communicate. Each communication level allows the parties to exchange information in a different format. The parties are permitted to exchange information at one of the communication levels. | 06-26-2014 |
20140180943 | System and Methods for Identifying Possible Associations and Monitoring Impacts of Actual Associations Between Synergistic Persons, Opportunities and Organizations - A system, including apparatuses and methods, and a service employing such system for identifying opportunities and enabling persons to become associated with opportunities in which persons can make an impact, for identifying individual and collective synergies and commonalities between persons, opportunities, organizations, groups and partners, for capturing and monitoring the impact of persons associated in opportunities, and for visually presenting the impact of persons, opportunities, organizations, and the system through multi-level aggregation, or roll-up, of key performance indicator data. The system orders synergistic matches and permits user selection, via a slider control, of the extent of synergy to be used in selecting and displaying matches. The system also permits the custom weighting of key performance indicators, or metrics, by different users to account for the relative importance of various metrics to such different users. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188741 | Care Advice System & Method - A care advice method, including: visiting a care advice website; registering as a customer on the website; completing a care request for advice from at least one expert; notifying each selected expert electronically of pending care request for advice; responding to the care request by at least one expert providing advice; uploading the advice to the website; submitting the advice which is delivered to the recipient defined by the customer; posting the advice to website which can be viewed by all viewers; and providing customers the option to post comments on the advice posted. | 07-03-2014 |
20140188742 | SYSTEM TO INTEGRATE REAL-WORLD OBJECTS INTO SOCIAL NETWORKS - A method for displaying an aggregate count of endorsements is provided, including the following method operations: processing a request for an online resource from a mobile device, the online resource being associated with an object, the online resource including an endorsement mechanism; sending the online resource to the mobile device; processing an input from a user triggering the endorsement mechanism, to define an endorsement of the object by the user; updating an aggregate count of endorsements of the object to include the endorsement of the object by the user; sending the updated aggregate count of endorsements to the social display device for display on the social display device. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195448 | Social Location Data Management Methods and Systems - Disclosed is a system for managing internet-based location data by periodically requesting and receiving information relating to the identification of a storefront or business. The system can obtain this information by interfacing with the application programming interface (API) of a website or otherwise searching the website and periodically retrieving identifying data from the website. The system can then match the retrieved identifying data with actual identifying data of a storefront or business to determine the accuracy of the client-stored identifying information. Results of this matching can then be distributed to the end user via the server, or output to external store locator functionality to help consumers locate the storefront or business. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195449 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC BUILDING OF BUSINESS CONTACTS TEMPORAL SOCIAL NETWORK USING CORPORATE EMAILS AND INTERNET - Provided are system and methods for automatically generating a temporal social network. A method includes extracting a plurality of emails from an email server and extracting pre-facts from the plurality of emails. The method further includes navigating the Internet and extracting pre-facts from the Internet that are related to the pre-facts extracted from the plurality of emails and facts already stored in a temporal social network database. The method further includes determining pre-facts that can be declared facts and storing the facts in the temporal social network database. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201096 | SOCIAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BUSINESS PROCESS PLATFORM - Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for integrating business data and social data in execution of a business process, implementations including actions of receiving user input, the user input being associated with a task of the business process and being received during interaction with an application, determining that a social query is triggered, querying business data based on a business query, the business query being generated based on the user input, querying social networking data based on the social query, the social query being generated at least partially based on the user input, receiving business data in response to the business query, receiving social data in response to the social query, and providing at least a portion of the business data and at least a portion of the social data for display to a user that provided the user input. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201097 | Method and System for Comparing and Advising Individuals and Groups - A system and method for comparing individuals, relationships and partners in a relationship and soliciting relationship advice are provided. It allows for a first user to submit a dating/relationship couple and question(s) through a relationship submission interface. A second user can submit a response to a question about the members of the couple or the couple itself through an answer submission interface. The various submissions are stored and retrieved for users to view the results. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207695 | Social Network-Based Fundraising System and Method Thereof - A processor implemented method comprising receiving, from a first coordinator, contact information for each of a first set of potential contributors and creating a first fundraising group. The method further comprises facilitating a payment of a contribution from at least one member of the first fundraising group to a fundraising entity and receiving contact information for each of a second set of potential contributors. The second set of potential contributors is provided by a second coordinator, wherein the second coordinator is included in the first fundraising group, and/or at least one of the second set of potential contributors in response to an invitation from the second coordinator, and creating a second fundraising group. The method further comprises facilitating a payment of a contribution from at least one member of the second fundraising group to the fundraising entity. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207696 | SHARING PURCHASING INFORMATION - The disclosure is related to sharing purchasing information among consumer using near field communication feature of user equipment. First user equipment may transfer purchasing information to second user equipment and the second user equipment may conveniently and instantly repurchase the same good or service, which the first user equipment purchases, based on the purchasing information. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214705 | DATA-PRIVACY MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE - A technique for controlling release of data associated with an account is described. During this data-privacy management technique, a computer system provides at least a subset of data associated with an account to a third party based on a first consent (which may be received from a user of the account). This subset may have a first classification based on a predefined taxonomy. Subsequently, the third party may notify the computer system that additional data has been derived from the data. In response, the computer system may determine a second classification of the additional data based on a predefined taxonomy. If this second classification is other than a subset of the first classification, the computer system may request a second consent (for example, from the user). | 07-31-2014 |
20140214706 | SOCIAL NETWORKING-BASED PROFILING - In one example, a computer-readable medium stores computer-executable instructions that cause one or more processors to aggregate at least a subset of a listing of current employees into at least one of plural categories, scan online activity for one or more of the current employees to an online service to detect instances of predetermined indicia, and collect the detected instances of the predetermined indicia into a profile for a perspective employee. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214707 | SOCIAL NETWORK DONATION & CONTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A broker provides an application for use by users of a social network. Using the application the broker obtains, from a first user of said social network, a request from said first user to make a first donation to a first donee entity on behalf of a second user of said social network. In response to payment by said first user of value corresponding to said donation, the broker providing a message to said second user that said donation has been made, said message including a link to said application, and said link identifying said first donee entity. The message and link are displayed on the first or second user's social network web page. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222700 | PREDICTIVE PAIRING AND/OR MATCHING SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS - Systems, methods, and apparatus for psychometrically pairing real estate agents with potential real estate clients. Some methods include retrieving social data for social network members. Such methods also include comparing the social data to a profile of the agent to psychometrically pair the members as potential clients for the agent. Some methods include outputting an indication (for instance likelihoods) of psychometric pairings of clients and the agent. Images of property can be distributed to the members and their image rankings can be received. The image rankings can be used to psychometrically match the clients with the property. The matchings and pairings can use the rankings and real estate criteria received from the members. The social data can be used to match the clients with property. Pairings of the clients and the agent can use the criteria. Some social data can be for a connection involving the client. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222701 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATING VARIOUS PLATFORMS AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME - The present invention relates generally to systems and methods of integrating various platforms and streams, including social platforms and streams as well as networking, customer management, targeted marketing, and enterprise operations relating to the systems and methods. The present invention also includes methods of using the above integration, networking, publishing aggregation, marketing and enterprise solutions. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222702 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING FOR PROFESSIONALS WITHIN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY - Systems and methods for searching for professionals within an online community. In an embodiment, a database is provided comprising member information for each of a plurality of members, including professional members and non-professional members. Activity information concerning one or more interactions between one or more of the professional members and a web application is tracked and stored. In addition, feedback information received for one or more of the professional members is tracked and stored. Search requests may be received, and for each of the search requests, two or more of the professional members may be identified based on member information and search criteria, an order can be determined for the identified professional members based on the stored activity information and feedback information, and a list can be generated comprising the identified professional members in the determined order. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222703 | System and Method For Efficient Messaging and For Populating Activity Streams - Systems and methods which facilitate efficient messaging and populating an activity stream are disclosed. In an aspect, a communication and feedback platform is disclosed which enables customers to provide public or private feedback messages to a business. Feedback messages may be tagged with employee information (further facilitated with appropriate privacy controls), thereby enabling the business to receive information about the performance of a specific employee via the platform. The platform further comprises a points allocation module, the points being redeemable via a reward engine. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222704 | COMMUNITY BOUNDARIES IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT - A method and system of community boundaries in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include obtaining a location on a geo-spatial map, determining a representative of a community in the community network associated with the location, and obtaining a community boundary selection associated with a the community from the representative. A region corresponding to the community boundary selection on the geo-spatial map is determined and a community boundary associated with the community on the geo-spatial map from the community boundary selection is created. A residence may be determined of a member of the community network in the region. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236847 | Synchronized Wearable Electronic Elements - Techniques are provided for synchronizing a plurality of client wearable elements based on an event. Systems may include a social control module that produces synchronization signal(s) based on an event, and a social communication module that transmits the synchronization signal(s) to the one or more social clients. Systems may also include a social receiver module that receives synchronization signal(s) and sensory stimulation modules that actuate based on stimulation signal(s). A stimulation schedule module generates the stimulation signal(s) based at least in part on the at least one synchronization signal. Wearable elements retain at least a portion of the modules described. Various other aspects are directed toward feedback collection and use, sequencing signals, relationship management, client identities, and other related aspects. | 08-21-2014 |
20140236848 | DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN A GEO-SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT - A method, apparatus and system of dispute resolution in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a claimable interface such that users modify and add profiles of others prior to the profiles being claimed, permitting an initial claimant to control editability of a claimable portion of a selected profile when the initial claimant claims the selected profile, capturing what personally identifiable information the initial claimant is willing to submit if the selected profile is disputed, placing the selected profile in dispute when a disputing claimant challenges an ownership of the selected profile by the initial claimant, electing a dispute resolution process that communicates a code through a direct mail mechanism to a physical address associated with the selected profile, and allocating the selected profile to one of the initial claimant and the disputing claimant based on entry of the code in the selected profile. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244530 | TECHNIQUES FOR USING SOCIAL PROXIMITY SCORES IN RECRUITING AND/OR HIRING - Techniques for analyzing a social graph of a social networking service to derive a social proximity score representing a measure of how socially connected a member is to a target entity are described. With some embodiments, an aggregate social proximity score is derived to reflect a measure of how well socially connected a person is to a set of organizations representing customer accounts of a business organization. Accordingly, the aggregate social proximity score can be used to compare candidates in a hiring decision, or to identify potential candidates during recruiting. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244531 | TECHNIQUES FOR USING SOCIAL PROXIMITY SCORES IN RECRUITING AND/OR HIRING - Techniques for analyzing a social graph of a social networking service to derive a social proximity score representing a measure of how socially connected a member is to a target entity are described. With some embodiments, an aggregate social proximity score is derived to reflect a measure of how well socially connected a person is to a set of organizations representing customer accounts of a business organization. Accordingly, the aggregate social proximity score can be used to compare candidates in a hiring decision, or to identify potential candidates during recruiting. | 08-28-2014 |
20140250023 | BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE BASED SOCIAL NETWORK WITH VIRTUAL DATA-VISUALIZATION CARDS - A method for sharing business intelligence information includes creating a plurality of data visualization cards from business intelligence data in response to create requests from a plurality of user accounts. Each data visualization card is associated with the user account that requested its creation. Data visualization cards are also associated with user accounts that did not request their creation in response to collect requests from those user accounts. A social network is created amongst the user accounts using the data visualization cards such that user accounts associated with data visualization cards created from common business intelligence data are linked. A first data visualization card that was created in response to a create request from a first user account may then be provided to a second user account in response to determining that the first user account and the second user account are linked in the social network. | 09-04-2014 |
20140258157 | Feedback for Financial Contributions - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems display selectable partners to facilitate a financial contribution from a user, receive user selection of one of the partners and an amount of the financial contribution, receive partner feedback to demonstrate an impact of the financial contribution, and display the feedback to the user. The feedback includes a photograph taken of a beneficiary of the financial contribution upon receiving benefit of the financial contribution. The partner submits the feedback to an organizer for review and the organizer approves and provides the feedback to the user. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258158 | SYSTEM FOR RECORDING AND BROADCASTING MESSAGES TO SOCIAL NETWORKS, WEB, BLOG SPACES AND QUICK RESPONSE CODES - This invention allows users to record audio or video messages from a variety of sources and automatically distribute them to various websites. Additionally this invention automatically designates a quick response code, for each message, which links to a uniform resource locator for the recorded message so that the quick response code can be placed on printed media and scanned to access the recorded message. The uniform resource locator, associated with the quick response code can be prescheduled to automatically change based on a time or date. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258159 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTING A RELEVANT USER FOR INTRODUCTION TO A USER IN AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT - Systems and methods of selecting a relevant user for introduction to a user in an online environment are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of receiving a request to identify the relevant user to be introduced to the participating user in the social network, identifying a set of social history records that occurred among the multiple users in the social network, selecting, from the multiple users, the relevant user to be introduced to the participating user using the set of social history records. The relevant user that is selected is not a social connection of the participating user in the social network. One embodiment includes, determining whether the participating user is interested in meeting the relevant user in the social network based on an indication made by the participating user via interaction with the user device. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258160 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOCIAL GRAPH DATA ANALYTICS TO DETERMINE CONNECTIVITY WITHIN A COMMUNITY - Systems and methods for social graph data analytics to determine the connectivity between nodes within a community are provided. A user may assign user connectivity values to other members of the community, or connectivity values may be automatically assigned from third parties or based on the frequency of interactions between members. Connectivity values may represent such factors as alignment, reputation, status, and/or influence within a social graph of a network community, or the degree of trust. The paths connecting a first node to a second node may be retrieved, and social graph data analytics may be performed on the retrieved paths. Network connectivity values and/or other social graph data may be outputted to third-party processes and services for use in initiating automatic transactions or making automated network-based or real-world decisions. | 09-11-2014 |
20140279616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UTILIZING INFORMATION FROM A SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICE IN AN ECOMMERCE SERVICE - A system and method of utilizing information from a social media service in an ecommerce system are provided. Log-in information for a social media service of a user of an ecommerce service may be received. Then, information may be retrieved from the social media service using the log-in information. This information can then be used to alter a reputation rating for a user in the ecommerce system or to form a trading circle with other users of the ecommerce system. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279617 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN ONLINE ADVOCACY PLATFORM - A system and method for establishing an online advocacy crowd. A crowd page may be generated and named according to an agenda of a user. Keywords or phrases may be entered into an online interface. A search of the keywords or phrases may be performed by listening across a number of digital and social media sources. Digital and social media posts containing the keywords or phrases may be identified and returned to the user. A contact for each identified post may be determined and saved as a potential crowd member. The user may then selectively invite potential crowd members to join a crowd via the crowd page. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279618 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING TOPIC-COHESIVE AND INTERACTIVE IMPLICIT COMMUNITIES IN SOCIAL CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for recommending a topic-cohesive and interactive implicit community are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request for customer care, selects an implicit community identified from a plurality of individual users of a social media website based upon a relevance score related to a topic of the request for customer care and recommends the implicit community in response to the request for customer care. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279619 | TALENT PORTAL WITH MEDIA RATING - Technology is disclosed for computing a social media rating for a user. In various embodiments, the technology retrieves a broadcast rating, retrieves a social network rating for the user, and computes a social media rating for the user based on the combination of the retrieved broadcast rating and the retrieved social network rating for the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279620 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ENROLLMENT PROBABILITY - Systems and method are provided for determining an enrollment probability. Prior candidate data is received for an institution. Activity of a current candidate on a social media site is monitored, where the current candidate is an applicant of the institution. An enrollment probability for the current candidate is determined based on the prior candidate data and the current candidate activity on the social media site. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279621 | Method, A System and a Computer Program Product for Scoring a Profile in Social Networking System - A method, system and a computer program product for scoring a profile in a social networking system. The method comprises at least one Fan profile, at least one Talent profile and at least one Business profile, comprising a computer that has access to the social networking system. The computer is configured to receive information of the at least one supporting action to at least one Talent profile a first Business profile has introduced to the social networking system; receive information of the at least one Talent profile which the Fan profile is assigned to; match the first Business profile that has supported the at least one Talent profile and the at least one Talent profile which the Fan profile is assigned to; and calculate based upon the information of at least one supporting action the score metrics representing the first Business profile's influence for the Fan profile. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279622 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEMANTIC PROCESSING OF PERSONALIZED SOCIAL DATA AND GENERATING PROBABILITY MODELS OF PERSONAL CONTEXT TO GENERATE RECOMMENDATIONS IN SEARCHING APPLICATIONS - A method and system for searching for employment opportunities. The method includes searching a plurality of webpages on websites for the employment opportunities and processing the webpages to determine semantic information about the employment opportunities including at least an employer for each of the employment opportunities. The method also includes identifying social network connections of a user and searching information from one or more social network websites to identify at least one of a current or previous employer of one or more of the social network connections of the user. Additionally, the method includes, in response to receiving a query from a user, returning a list of potential employment opportunities including information about one or more of the social network connections of the user identified as currently or previously employed or associated with a current or previous employee of an employer of one or more of the potential employment opportunities. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279623 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURING ONLINE CONTENT RATINGS - Systems and methods are described for determining a weighted rating and a relative rating. In some embodiments, a receiving module and rating module are configured to receive an identity of a collector, a list of raters, and a social graph, determine for at least one rater a set of non-intersecting paths between the rater and the collector, calculate capacity values for non-intersecting paths, normalize path values, convert path values to a user weight, and apply the at least one rater's weight to the at least one rater's rating. In some embodiments, a receiving module and rating module are also configured to receive a rating for each of the items rated by the rater, calculate a transformed rating, calculate a relative rating, and assign a relative rating to an item. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279624 | SOCIAL CAMPAIGN NETWORK AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CONTENT DELIVERY IN SAME - An engine, system and method for a domain social network that interconnects Internet users with at least domains owned by or of interest to those Internet users, and that may obtain and/or forward obtained dynamic data regarding those domains automatically, such as by web service or email service. The dynamic data may be used to filter and protect content and data of the respective domains, to protect users by identifying low quality web pages or malicious software or pages, to isolate or improve search results regarding the domain, and/or to improve Internet-based transaction flow, such as the creation of advertising. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279625 | Social Network Based Skill Rating and Performance Feedback System - A social network based system is provided to facilitate a user to get the user's progressive ratings on skills over time in reference to concrete reference activity. The system comprises means for a user to build social network for facilitating skill-rating and means for creating a rating request defining a context activity and target skills. The system further comprises means for inviting users of different relationships to user from the user's social network to rate on target skills included in the rating request in reference to the context activity. The system further comprises means for answering an incoming rating request, through which 360-degree rating data over time can be provided on a rating request. The system further comprises means for establishing groups for facilitating skill-rating for organizations. Means are provided to create team rating request through which a group can collect team 360-degree rating data of members over time. | 09-18-2014 |
20140279626 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION - Disclosed are a system and a method for providing social relationship information about a user of various communication terminals, the system for providing social relationship information comprising: a related-person information storage unit for storing information about related-persons who are in contact with a user via a communication network; a contact record storing unit for gathering and storing communication contact records for the user and the related-persons; a relationship index calculation unit for calculating a social relationship index by analyzing the communication contact records; and a group information management unit for generating group information about the related-persons on the basis of the calculated social relationship index, and then providing the generated group information to a social network server or application. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289139 | VIRAL ENGAGEMENT PATH FOR OCCASION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - An example embodiment includes a viral engagement process for increasing participation in an occasion-based social network. The process includes receiving a first photo generated at an occasion. The first photo is transmitted from a first device of a first attendee. The process also includes engaging the first attendee to obtain information concerning the occasion. The process also includes identifying a second attendee present at the occasion. The process also includes notifying the second attendee to engage the second attendee. The process also includes receiving a second photo generated at the occasion. The second photo is transmitted from a second device of the second attendee. | 09-25-2014 |
20140289140 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF OPPORTUNISTICALLY IDENTIFYING NETWORKING PROSPECTS - The technology disclosed relates to automatically suggesting rendezvous with nearby networking prospects. In particular, it relates to opportunistically filling a user's free time with business networking activities by identifying other users that are in geographic proximity to the user and meet the user's business preferences for business networking activities. | 09-25-2014 |
20140297547 | SOCIAL NETWORK RECRUITING ALERTS - Technologies related to social network recruiting alerts are generally described. Passive recruiting targets may be registered, and a set of contacts linked to the passive recruiting target in a social network graph may be monitored. Recruiting alerts may be generated in response to changes in social network profile data associated with the set of contacts. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304180 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DIVIDING A USER'S SOCIAL NETWORK RELATIONSHIP CIRCLE - A method and system for dividing a user's social network relationship circle is disclosed. The method includes generating relevancy attribute information between friends of a first user according to social information of the first user's friends. A level of closeness between the friends according to the relevancy attribute information is acquired. The friends with the level of closeness greater than a first threshold are associated with a same relationship circle of the first user. The above method divides the friends of the user who have a high degree of closeness to the same relationship circle automatically. Thus, the efficiency of managing the social network for users is improved. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310189 | Data Usage and Aggregation in a Food Product Asset Related Network - A method for enabling network communication relating to a food preparation asset may include receiving, from a third party participant, a registration request to join a community including asset operators that operate at least one food preparation asset, registering the third party participant as a community member, providing the third party participant with access to a communication network for sharing information related to the asset, receiving data indicative of asset related activity, providing the third party participant with data indicative of asset related activity, and enabling the third party participant to establish communications with the asset or asset operators via the communication network based on the data indicative of asset related activity. | 10-16-2014 |
20140317006 | MARKET SPECIFIC REPORTING MECHANISMS FOR SOCIAL CONTENT OBJECTS - Technology for providing reporting options specific for a market or a common user attribute is disclosed herein. A computer server of a social networking system determines multiple community standards for a group of users of a social networking system, wherein the group of users have a common user attribute such as a common market. The computer server receives a request for reporting a content object in the social networking system from a user among the group of users. The computer server determines multiple reporting options based on the community standards, and transmits the reporting options to the user in response to the request. The reporting options represent potential reasons why the user reports the content object | 10-23-2014 |
20140317007 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR REALIZATION OF ONLINE VIRTUALIZED OBJECTS - A system, method, and computer program product for an online transferring system where a conveying user may transfer a virtual object, representative of a real object, to a receiving user using an electronic ID of the receiving user and have a real object delivered to a shipping address of the receiving user without knowledge of the shipping address by the conveying user. The system includes an electronic data store having a set of identifying information for a receiving user. The set of identifying information includes an electronic ID and a physical contact address. The system includes a communication system for communication between the conveying user and the receiving user. The communication system provides the electronic ID to the conveying user without providing the physical contact address to the conveying user. The system includes a virtual object, representative of a real-world object, associated with the conveying user. The system includes a physical shipping system, coupled to the communication system, for initiating a delivery of the real-world object to the physical contact address responsive to the conveying user communicating the virtual object to the electronic ID. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324717 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECORDING, ANALYZING AND PUBLISHING INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP RECOGNITION THROUGH STRUCTURED STORY TELLING - Disclosed are methods and systems for recording, organizing, and analyzing behavior or conduct by individuals or groups through entry of story information and data related to one or more organizations known to the user, using a platform for internal or limited publication of the stories, and optionally, for external publication of the stories to elicit public feedback and recognition. The disclosed methods and systems use computer processors and databases, operating in real-time, to enable structured entry of story elements and descriptors relating to individual or group recognition; organization of the entered stories; analysis of the entered stories; and publication of selected entered along with analysis of story data to provide various indicators and scoring of users and organizations. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324718 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRIVILEGE MANAGEMENT - In one aspect of the invention, a method for privilege management includes obtaining data information associated with a user identification; configuring a corresponding privilege for the user identification, if the obtained data information satisfies a condition for obtaining a privilege; receiving a trigger request for a service logic according to the corresponding privilege; and clearing the corresponding privilege configured for the user identification according to the received trigger request. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324719 | SOCIAL MEDIA SCREENING AND ALERT SYSTEM - A social media screening and alert method includes obtaining access to a first user's social media account. A text-based post is received from the first user's social media account. It is ascertained that an action verb from the text-based post is on a stored list of verbs. Found within a predetermined number of words of the action verb is either a noun identifying at least one person, or a time of day or time period. In response to the finding step, an electronic alert is transmitted to a second user. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324720 | METHOD, SYSTEM, INTELLIGENT TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION - The present disclosure provides a method, system, intelligent terminal and storage medium for information recommendation, wherein, the method includes: uploading contact information to a server, by an intelligent terminal; storing the contact information uploaded by the intelligent terminal and acquiring a social account number of a user of the intelligent terminal, by the server; acquiring friend information of the social account number according to the social account number, and matching the acquired friend information with the contact information, then returning the friend information which is successfully matched to the intelligent terminal, by the server; receiving and storing the friend information which is successfully matched, and recommending the friend information which is successfully matched to the user of the intelligent terminal, by the intelligent terminal; and the friend information which is successfully matched including information that has not been set in the contact information of the intelligent terminal. | 10-30-2014 |
20140330732 | PROVIDING ACCESS TO A PRIVATE RESOURCE IN AN ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for providing access to a private resource in an enterprise social networking system. One or more servers may receive a request for access to a private resource to be granted to a user from a publisher. The publisher may be configured to publish a message as a feed item to one or more feeds, where the message includes a user identification identifying the user. The user does not have access to the private resource. The feed item may be provided to display in the one or more feeds. Access may be granted to the user via the one or more feeds. In some implementations, access may be granted in response to a user input from the feed item associated with a moderator or owner, the moderator or owner having a privilege to control user access to the private resource. | 11-06-2014 |
20140351154 | EPISODIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and methods for delivering augmented user information are provided. A method includes receiving a request for augmented information regarding an entity and obtaining an entity profile for the entity based on activity data from at least one data source and corresponding to one or more activities associated with the entity, the entity profile comprising temporal activity data and non-temporal activity data for the activities. In the method, the entity can be a single user or a group of users. The method also includes identifying one or more episodic social networks (ESNs) associated with the entity, based at least on an episodic social network model and the entity profile, where each of the ESNs associated with a different set of finite temporal boundaries and non-temporal boundaries. The method further includes delivering information regarding the ESNs to a requesting party as the augmented information. | 11-27-2014 |
20140358805 | Illegal Activity Detection through Interpersonal Relationship Resolution - The detection of illegal activity through interpersonal relationship resolution. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: assigning a risk assessment score to a person of interest; identifying and mapping at least one first line connection of the person of interest; assigning a risk assessment score to each first line connection; updating the risk assessment score assigned to the person of interest based on the risk assessment score assigned to each first line connection; comparing the risk assessment score of the person of interest to at least one threshold value; and detecting an illegal activity based on the comparing. | 12-04-2014 |
20140358806 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGISTRATION AND SHARING OF TOYS AND APPAREL TO CREATE LINKS IN AN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods of the present disclosure facilitate relating users in an online social network. In one embodiment, the system can receive a first registration code of a first physical toy via a first scanning device and modify a first user account to include the first registration code. The system can also receive a second registration code of a second physical toy via a second scanning device and modify a second user account to include the second registration code. Responsive to the system then receiving the second registration code via the first scanning device, and receiving the first registration code via the second scanning device, the system can compare the first user account with the second user account. Based on the comparison, the system can identify a transaction between the first and second user accounts to generate a link in the social network between the first and second user accounts. | 12-04-2014 |
20140372328 | METHODS AND APPARATUS HAVING APPLICABILITY TO SUCCESSION PLANNING - Techniques having applicability to succession planning may include providing an option, in a computer-implemented professional networking platform, for a first member of a professional community to designate a second member of the professional community as deserving of promotion. In response to the designation, a nomination may be received from the first member, via the computer-implemented professional networking platform, of a third member of the professional community as a potential successor for the second member. Further techniques may include receiving, from an employee, information about the employee's professional characteristics, and presenting the information to human resources (HR) personnel. One or more automated similarity algorithms may be applied to identify, based on the information about the employee's professional characteristics, information likely to be of interest to the employee, which may be provided to the employee in return for the information about the employee's professional characteristics. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372329 | AUTOMATED SOURCING AND SCREENING OF CANDIDATE PROFILES - Various embodiments of systems and methods for automatically sourcing and screening candidate profiles are described herein. The method involves receiving authorization from a participant to access the participant's account on a social networking system. Further, the profiles corresponding to the one or more candidates connected to the participant in the social networking system are extracted and scored according to a degree of match between the profile data associated with each extracted profile and a candidate search data. The candidate search data defines a set of criteria qualifying a candidate for a particular job position. In another aspect, the extracted profiles are ranked based on the scores assigned to each of the extracted profiles and a feedback form is sent to a participant in response to receiving a selection of a profile associated with the participant. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372330 | SOCIAL NETWORK USER INFORMATION ASSOCIATION METHOD AND DEVICE - The present invention discloses a social network user information association method and apparatus. Personal information of a friend in a user social network is associated with a local contact list of a user terminal, and the association comprises: establishing, in a user terminal, a correspondence relationship between a record of contact in the local contact list and personal information of the contact in one or more social networks. With the method and the apparatus of the present invention, a user can also conveniently use the user information and personal information of a friend of MSN or IM and so on, without logging in to MSN or IM. | 12-18-2014 |
20140379598 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REGULATING CONTENT POSTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITES - Method and system for regulating an employee's posting of company information on social media, for example to ensure that the content complies with disclosure rules relating to company financial or investment information. The employee designates a compliance officer, who is not required to be a member of the social media community (SMC) or to log into the community, to pre-approve postings by the company employee. A compliance module connects with the company's internal email system providing a mechanism for communication pre-approval requests of content to the officer and for storing the approved posts in order to comply with regulated company's record-keeping requirements. | 12-25-2014 |
20150012449 | RECOMMENDING POSTS TO NON-SUBSCRIBING USERS - In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems and program products. A server system receives from a plurality of computing devices indications that a user of each of the computing devices requested to receive posts that a first user authors. The server system receives from a first computing device a post that was authored by the first user. The post is transmitted from the server system to the plurality of computing devices. A score for the post is determined to satisfy a criteria for transmission to a second user who has not requested to receive posts authored by the first user. The determination uses a distance of the second user to the first user in a social network graph. In response, the post is transmitted from the server system to a second computing device that is associated with the second user. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012450 | PROMPTING SERVICE - Computer-readable media, systems, and methods are provided for prompting a customer of a service to submit digital content to the service in order to generate an online compilation. Input from the customer may be received in response to communications from the service. Temporal preference information may then be extracted from the input by determining time periods at which the customer most commonly provides the input in response to the communications. Based on the time periods at which the customer most commonly provides input, a prompting scheme may be derived, where the prompting scheme governs scheduling an automatic distribution of subsequent communications to the customer at the time periods at which the customer most commonly provides the input. The subsequent communications may then be distributed to the customer in accordance with the prompting scheme. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012451 | SOCIAL NETWORK PRESTIGE PROGRAM - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for managing a prestige status of a user in a social network platform, with the prestige status being determined using linked possessions from one or more financial parties. One example method includes providing a visualization on a social network platform, the social network platform communicably linked to a financial platform; receiving, from the financial platform, a request to change a status of a user of the social network based on possessions of the user associated with a financial institution; and updating the visualization to reflect the user's status. | 01-08-2015 |
20150012452 | AMPLIFICATION OF A SOCIAL OBJECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC REPUBLISHING OF THE SOCIAL OBJECT ON CURATED CONTENT PAGES BASED ON RELEVANCY - A method, an apparatus and/or a system of amplification of a social object through automatic republishing of the social object on curated content pages based on relevancy is disclosed. A curated content system involves associating a social media account of a user of a third-party service to the curated content system based on an authentication of the social media account through the curated content system. The curated content system may also involve determining that a social object placed in the third-party service is associated with a page in the curated content system based on a relevancy match between an identification data associated with the social object with at least a portion of a content of the page. Further, the curated content system involves automatically republishing the social object adjacent to at least the portion of the content of the page using a processor to amplify an influence of the social object. | 01-08-2015 |
20150019450 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING AND USING A SOCIAL NETWORK TO FACILITATE PEOPLE IN LIFE ISSUES - Embodiments described herein provide numerous applications and implementations of a social network to facilitate individuals to resolve various life issues. These issues may include issues that arise when individuals or families relocate, including logistic problems, assimilation of family members in a community, and roommate pairings. As will be described, embodiments described herein greatly facilitate corporations in relocating their employees logistically, and also assist employees and their families with life issues that may determine whether the employees' relocation will be a success. | 01-15-2015 |
20150026083 | Generating Connection Map for Intelligent Connections in Enterprises - A user establishes a profile with an enterprise intelligence system. The user specifies a watchlist identifying entities such as members and/or enterprises in which the user is interested. The user also specifies recommendation criteria specifying the types of recommenders to use to identify connections with the entities. The recommenders are used to identify attributes in common between the user and members, and to generate a connection map describing social connections between the user and the members based on the common attributes. A recommendation model for the user generates decision aiding information. The connection map is organized and presented to the user based on the generated decision aiding information. User interactions with the connection map are observed and the recommendation model is updated based on the observed interactions. A pattern of recommenders preferred by the user is learned from the observed interactions, and is used to guide future decision making. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026084 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED CLOTHING FASHION RECOMMENDATIONS - A client-server social-network for providing automated clothing suggestions. Fashion interested users form social networks, upload records of their respective wardrobes and fashion preferences, and display their wardrobe items and outfits other members of the network, often displaying entire outfits using customizable virtual mannequins. The social network members can evaluate the fashion merits of both their outfits and their friend's outfits, and the system will further store data pertaining to the social network group's fashion assessments. The system may also make statistical inferences as to what types of clothing may be favored and disfavored by the user's social network group, and present these recommendations to the user. Other factors, such as weather, event type, and user's recent history of wearing various wardrobe items can also be considered. The system can additionally assist in shopping and gift giving, provide fashion related games, spot fashion trends, and provide advanced data for fashion suppliers. | 01-22-2015 |
20150032651 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS AND INSTRUCTION - The present invention generally relates to systems and method for developing and utilizing social networks to achieve a goal. Specifically, this invention relates to systems and methods for the advantageous use of social networks to support an employment search. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032652 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR INCREASING CONVERGENCE OF POTENTIAL DONORS TO ACTUAL DONORS OF PROJECTS SEEKING CROWDFUNDING - A system and process for increasing convergence of potential donors to actual donors of projects seeking crowdfunding is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system connects streaming video conversations, individual personal profiles, and fundable project descriptions to provide a potential project donor with a set of in-depth contextually relevant information resources related to a project seeking crowdfunding. In some embodiments, the process improves the conversion of potential project donors to actual project donors by presenting potential project donors with streaming video conversations, individual personal profiles of conversation participants, related fundable project descriptions, and related donation payment gateways which allows a potential project donor to become informed of the issues being addressed by a particular project seeking crowdfunding. | 01-29-2015 |
20150032653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETERMINE A MEMBER PROFILE ASSOCIATED WITH A REFERENCE IN A PUBLICATION - Method and system are provided to determine a member profile associated with a reference to a person in a publication and may be used beneficially to identify members of a social network in news articles. The system may be configured to detect a publication that was shared by a member of an on-line social networking system, determine that the publication includes a name entity, and identify a member profile in the on-line social networking system that represents a member referenced by the name entity. The process of identifying a member profile in the on-line social networking system that represents a member referenced by the name entity may include building a list of candidate profiles from the member profiles of the on-line social networking system and selecting a matching profile from the candidate profiles, utilizing one or more disambiguation techniques. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039524 | Detecting And Responding To Sentiment-Based Communications About A Business On A Social Networking System - A social networking system identifies communications about an object associated with a brand owner. For each communication, the social networking system identifies users who were generated the communication, users who were exposed to the communication, and users who were not exposed to the communication. The social networking system determines a sentiment associated with a communication and may send a report based on the sentiment of the communications towards the brand owner. A request from a brand owner to present one or more response communications to users based on the users' relationship to a communication from a user about the object and the sentiment determined from the communication may be received by the social networking system. Based on the request, the social networking system presents a response communication to one or more users. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039525 | SELECTIVE COMMUNICATION OF JOB OPENINGS TO POTENTIAL REFERRERS - Embodiments are directed to constructing an employee referral network, selectively communicating job opportunities to potential job referrers and to facilitating incognito job referrals. In one scenario, a computer system imports professional contacts for an employee from at least one source of professional contacts. The computer system categorizes the imported professional contacts according to criteria provided by the employee's employer, then further constructs an employee referral network that includes the employee's professional contacts that have met the criteria provided by the employee's employer and selectively communicates the job opportunities through the constructed employee referral network to those professional contacts who meet the employer's criteria. | 02-05-2015 |
20150039526 | ONLINE MATCH-MAKING SYSTEM OR GAME, SUCH AS A WEB SITE, SMARTPHONE OR TABLET APPLICATION AND SUPPORTING NETWORK, AND CODE CONFIGURED TO PROVIDE SAME - An online match-making system, such as a smartphone or tablet application and supporting network, which is configured to promote contact between users when a mutual interest has been determined. Profiles are received from (and maintained in) a database. A user can view the different profiles, such as by viewing at least one picture associated with each profile. As the user views the different profiles or pictures, the user can indicate to the system whether or not he or she is interested in that person associated with the profile being viewed. The system keeps track of instances where a user indicates an interest in a given profile (i.e., interest in another person). When that other person logs onto the system, that other person is informed whether other users have indicated an interest, and is presented with profiles, wherein a proportion of the first plurality of profiles which are presented correspond to users who have previously indicated an interest in that person. Upon it being determined that two users have an interest in each other, the system promotes contact between the users such as by sending a message to one or preferably both of the users. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046353 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LEVERAGING THE POWER OF ONE'S SOCIAL NETWORK IN AN ONLINE MARKETPLACE - Methods and systems for leveraging one's social network in the context of an opportunities marketplace are described. One aspect of the invention involves integrating social networking features into an online marketplace, or exchange. Accordingly, one aspect of the invention involves facilitating an opportunity search in a manner that provides social networking information with the results of the search. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046354 | PET MATCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Computer-implemented pet adoption systems, methods and computer program products improve the process of matching up prospective adopters with available animals by optimizing the number of pet profiles displayed to prospective adopters per page, providing authorized personal with different selectable rules for setting the order in which the animal profiles are displayed to the prospective adopter in order to work toward specific adoption goals of the animal shelter, and using historical usage and user-profile data to gauge the probability of adoption between a prospective adopter and the available animals. The probabilistic analysis is used for the purpose of ranking or filtering the pool of pet profiles in order to remove pets of lower adoption-probability from consideration or present them lower down in the displayed order of the profiles. | 02-12-2015 |
20150052070 | TECHNIQUES TO PROMOTE MESSAGES - Techniques to promote messages in a social networking services to increase communication opportunities while throttling unsolicited messages are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may have a message generation component and a message delivery component. The message generation component may be operative to receive a request from a first member of a social networking service (SNS) to send a message for a second member of the SNS. The message delivery component may be operative to deliver the message to one of multiple mailboxes for the second member based on a tiered payment schedule. The tiered payment schedule may include a first parameter to represent a relationship type between the first and second members, a second parameter to represent a subscriber tier for the second member, and a third parameter to represent a promotional cost associated with the subscriber tier. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052071 | Method of Integrating Events and System Thereof - An event integrating and displaying method for an electronic apparatus is disclosed. The method includes the follow steps: collecting a plurality of events established by different sources; calculating an event similarity between any two target events of the plurality of events to determine whether the event similarity exceeds a defined value, wherein the event similarity is obtained from calculating a time similarity, a location similarity, and an attendance similarity between the two target events; if the event similarity exceeds the defined value, integrating the two target events into an identical event. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052072 | COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION BASED ON PROFILE UPDATE - A notification machine may receive an update to a user profile that describes a user and indicates a group of users as being socially connected to the user by a social network. The update may reference a community (e.g., an employer or a club) of the user. The user profile may be modified by including a reference to the community within the user profile. The notification machine may identify a further user who is included in the community (e.g., employed by the employer, or part of the club). The further user may be socially unconnected to the user by the social network. The notification machine may then generate and provide a notification that the further user is employed by the employer. This notification may contain suggestions that the user initiate communication with the further user, become socially connected with the further user, or both. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058235 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AND COORDINATING ONLINE AND OFFLINE RELATIONSHIPS - A posting module enables a user to specify information for a first date posting, including a first date venue. Optionally, a database is accessed and information related to the first date venue is received. The first date posting is optionally populated with information specified by the first user and at least a portion of the information received via the database. A search engine may identify the first date posting at least partly in response to an action of a second user, and provide the first date posting for display to the second user. A module is configured to cause an invitation control to be displayed to the second user in association with the first date posting, detect the second user activating the invitation control, and cause an invitation, to go on a date corresponding to the first date posting of the first user, to be presented to the first user. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058236 | MANAGING AN INITIAL POST ON A WEBSITE - Managing an initial post on a website includes identifying an initial post on website where the initial post is for an event, identifying a related post that describes the event after the event occurs, and updating the initial post to include content of the related post. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058237 | Fishing Data Sharing and Display - Various implementations described herein are directed to a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, may cause the computer to automatically receiving fishing data recorded during a fishing trip. The computer may receive a selection of a first group of subscribers that can access the fishing data. The computer may grant permissions to the first group of subscribers to access the fishing data. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058238 | Social Polling Functions And Services - A system for polling people connected to a network includes an end user electronic device connected to another electronic device via a network. A user enters a survey question into the end user's device and submits it to the another electronic device via the network. The another electronic device receives the survey question and displays it. In response to an answer given to the poll question on the another electronic device, the another electronic device submits the answer to the end user electronic device via the network. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058239 | ITEM-BASED SOCIAL DISCOVERY - A system and method for item-based social discovery are provided. In example embodiments, entity data that associates respective items of a plurality of items with respective entities of a plurality of entities is stored, each entity of the plurality of entities being registered at a social network service. An item indication, generated in response to a user action of a user, that indicates a user affinity for a mutual item is received, the user being registered at the social network service. A suggested entity from among the plurality of entities is identified by matching the mutual item with respective items of the plurality of items. The suggested entity does not have a social network relationship on the social network service with the user. Causing recommendation of a new social network relationship on the social network service between the user and the suggested member entity. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066788 | SOCIAL MEDIA INTEGRATION PLATFORM - Techniques for using a social media integration platform include receiving a request from a business system to interact with a social media system executing on a social media platform; integrating, using the social media integration platform, the request between the business system and the social media system by translating the request from the business system to a social media request compliant with the social media platform, wherein the social media integration platform is configured to translate requests between at least one type of business system and a plurality of different types of social media platforms; and sending the social media request to the social media system. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066789 | INTERPERSONAL AFFINITY IDENTIFICATION - A person, registered at an affinity system, is associated with characteristics describing him/herself, and with at least one set of characteristics describing other persons of interest to the registered person (“desired match descriptions”). The desired characteristics may include that a person is looking for a characteristic. Some of the characteristics may be provided by an expertise system including expertise ratings and rarity ratings. The expertise system determines a characteristic via its own methodology, such as tests or other verifications. The expertise system can be internal or external to the affinity system, and there can be more than one expertise system. When a person checks-in at a location, physically or virtually, the affinity system identifies persons of mutual interest. If each of the registered persons agrees, they both are enabled to contact each other. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066790 | PLATFORM FOR IMAGE FEED AND CHARITABLE DONATION - Disclosed is a network user action-driven support computation method and system that receives, from a first user, a user image that may then be supplied as a feed on a social network, receives a designation associating a charitable fund with the user image, obtains automatically, as a first value, a number of network user actions entered in response to the user image, for example, by users selecting “like” or sharing the user image, and computes and reports a donation amount to the charitable fund based on the first value. The user images may be electronic photo albums, image albums, or videos of the first user, and may be displayed to users connected on the social network to the first user as an electronic feed that includes an identification of the charitable fund adjacent to or juxtaposed with the user image. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066791 | MINING OF USER EVENT DATA TO IDENTIFY USERS WITH COMMON INTERESTS - A computer-implemented matching service matches users to other users, and/or to user communities, based at least in part on a computer analysis of event data reflective of user behaviors. The event data may, for example, evidence user affinities for particular items represented in an electronic catalog, such as book titles, music titles, movie titles, and/or other types of items that tend to reflect the traits of users. Event data reflective of other types of user actions, such as item-detail-page viewing events, browse node visits, search query submissions, and/or web browsing patterns may additionally or alternatively be considered. By taking such event data into consideration, the matching service reduces the burden on users to explicitly supply personal profile information, and reduces poor results caused by exaggerations and other inaccuracies in such profile information. | 03-05-2015 |
20150081575 | PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHODS - A professional networking system is provided. The system includes a plurality of member websites, each being associated with a member of the professional networking system, and each having a unique domain name. The system further includes a professional networking application that is hosted at least partially on a server and electronically accessible over at least one network system to at least one member computer device. The professional networking application is configured to provide members controlling access to their respective associated websites of the plurality of member websites. A member recommendation module is further included that is configured to receive from a member a recommendation for another member and to facilitate display of the recommendation on a website associated with the recommended member. | 03-19-2015 |
20150081576 | GENERATING A SUPPLEMENTAL DESCRIPTION OF AN ENTITY - A statistically overrepresented token in the descriptions of users associated with a target entity may be descriptive of the target entity. This may be true regardless of whether a primary description of the entity includes the overrepresented token. Accordingly, the entity description machine may access multiple descriptions of multiple users associated with the target entity. A portion of the multiple descriptions may each include a token descriptive of the target entity and of a subset of the multiple users. The entity description machine may determine that the token is overrepresented among the tokens within the multiple descriptions and generate a supplemental description of the target entity, where the supplemental description includes the overrepresented token. Once the supplemental description is generated, the entity description machine may use the supplemental description in referencing the target entity. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088771 | FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention comprise systems, computer program products, and methods for a financial and social management system that provides improved tracking and management related to how, where, when, and with whom a user enters into activities. The financial and social management system captures activity information and images from various sources of information, including but not limited to social networking accounts, e-receipts, location determination devices, and the like, and associates the activity information and images with the activities. The financial and social management system may tag the activities with activity information, such as location, social relationship, entity, and category information. Moreover, the financial and social management system may display the activity and activity information in activity list interfaces, packaged activity interfaces, filtered activity interfaces, activity history interfaces, activity review interfaces, or other like interfaces that incorporate aspects of financial transactions and social networking information. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088772 | ENHANCING IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT ONTOLOGY USING CROWDSOURCING - A computer implemented method performs an IT service management operation such as analyzing a problem, associated with an entity configuration in a domain having an ontology, wherein each entity has relationships with other entities. Information provided by the ontology is used to create a specified question pertaining to the operation. It is then determined whether an answer to the question is initially available. Responsive to an answer being initially available, information provided by the initially available answer and the ontology, selectively, is used to create a second question, wherein the second question pertains to the operation and is directed to one of the entities. Responsive to an answer to the specified question not being initially available, a crowdsourcing technique is used to seek an answer to the specified question. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095248 | Method for requesting and sharing purchases, recommendations, and reviews - Method for requesting and sharing purchases, recommendations, and reviews. Initial user input may be received requesting purchases, recommendations, or reviews and specifying one or more friends and/or family and/or their contact information. A message containing the request may be automatically created and transmitted. User input responding to said request may be received. A message containing the response may be automatically created and transmitted to the requester. Additionally, or alternatively, initial user input may be received specifying a purchase, recommendation, or review to be shared and specifying one or more friends and/or family and/or their contact information. A message containing the user input may be automatically created and transmitted. In one embodiment, said messages may be transmitted via email or social network, saved to user accounts, and accessed via the internet. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095249 | Website Platform to Locate and Engage with International Diasporas - A website platform focused around sharing needs or offers amongst people of similar residence and/or origin allows users to locate and engage diasporas across the world. This global platform provides each user to interact amongst each other through a plurality of communication, and development resources. Some of these resources are: the ability of send and receive messages; the ability to view, organize, and manage a user's contacts list, and the ability to create and join networking groups. One of the most important resources is the ability to create and add needs/offer posts to a common board that can be seen by all users. This allows users to view opportunities on need/offer posts that could connect diaspora users of any residence or origin. This international diaspora platform provides a unique environment that addresses some of the crucial problems associated with human migration or movement across the globe. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100509 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING USER ENGAGEMENT - Methods and systems are provided for enhancing user engagement in a social network computing environment by using affinity indices to track the interaction among posts, topics, users, groups, and experts, and populating displays on user, group, and topic pages using the affinity indices. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106284 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A USER ONLINE EXPERIENCE DISTILLING THE COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE OF A PLURALITY OF PARTICIPANTS - A method of determining an answer. The method includes sending a question through a mobile network to a plurality of mobile terminals, receiving responses to the question from the mobile terminals and outputting a single answer based on the responses. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106285 | MOOD-BASED ANALYTICS FOR COLLABORATIVE PLANNING OF A GROUP TRAVEL ITINERARY - A method for providing mood-based analytics for collaborative travel planning for a group containing one or more group member includes receiving a priority, a target happiness index, and mood-based input for each group member. A target group happiness index is calculated based on an aggregate of the target happiness indexes weighted by the priority for each group member. A current group happiness index is calculated based on an aggregate of the mood-based input weighted by the priority for each group member. The activity preferences for the group are determined based on the aggregate of the mood-based input weighted by the priority for each group member. External environmental data that influences the current group happiness and the activity preferences is collected. A group itinerary based on the current group happiness index, the activity preferences for the group, and the external environmental data is generated to meet the target group happiness index. | 04-16-2015 |
20150112880 | Systems and Methods for Facilitating User Interactions - A computer-implemented method for facilitating user interactions comprises receiving, with the aid of a system having a computer processor, a request from a requester for making an introduction to a target. The target is directly linked to a facilitator, which can be a user in the requester's company or user group. The system requests authorization from the facilitator to introduce the requester to the target. Upon receiving authorization from the facilitator, the system introduces the requester to the target. In some cases, the system does not reveal the identity of the facilitator to the requester. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120587 | USE OF A SOCIAL NETWORK TO ENHANCE HIRING TEAM COLLABORATION - A recruiting system receives user inputs that generate events within the recruiting system related to recruiting a new employee. The recruiting system tags messages with filter tags so that they can be filtered for later viewing. The recruiting system then provides outputs that take action within a social network based on user-initiated events, within the recruiting system. The recruiting system also accesses the social network to display an information feed based on user inputs. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120588 | CREATING OR UPDATING A SOCIAL NETWORK GROUP BASED ON CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT RECORDS IN AN ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORK - Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer program products for creating or updating a social network group based on customer relationship management (CRM) records in an enterprise social network. In some implementations, a server of a database system receives from a client machine a first request to create or update a social network group based on a CRM record. The server identifies one or more users associated with the CRM record and sends information identifying the users to the client machine for display. The server receives a second request in relation to creating or updating the social network group, the second request identifying a user to be included as a member of the social network group. Responsive to the second request, the server creates or updates the social network group to include the user as a member, the social network group being identified as being associated with the CRM record. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120589 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE SEARCHES BASED ON SOCIAL GRAPHS AND AFFINITY GROUPS - Business, recommendation, and social relationship graph information for businesses may be received from a data source social networking website, where each business is recommended by users. The recommendation information may indicate users that recommend certain businesses. The social relationship graph information may indicate user-specific networks of social relationships on the social networking website. For a user query including business and affinity group selection criteria, business, recommendation, and social relationship graph information may be searched to select businesses that: match the business selection criteria; and are recommended by users having social relationships within a maximum degree of closeness with the querying user and being in an affinity group matching the affinity group selection criteria. The selected businesses may be ranked based on numbers of recommending users and social relationship graph information. A search result, with businesses indicated in a rank order and with business and recommendation information, may be provided. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127565 | Social Match Platform Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - The SOCIAL MATCH PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“SMP”) transforms platform join requests, social network info, and SMP network info inputs via SMP components NJ, JIP, CIP, OP, CN-SGU and CN-UPSOG into job info, candidate info, offer info, and social meetup info outputs. A job information request for a candidate may be obtained. Social data associated with the candidate may be determined. A social job relevancy rating for various jobs may be calculated using the social data. A job may be selected using the social job relevancy rating for the job, and information regarding the selected job may be provided. | 05-07-2015 |
20150134553 | Providing Content Items Based on User Affinity in a Social Network Environment - A system and method for measuring user affinity in a social network environment is provided. One or more activities performed by a user associated with a social network environment are monitored. A relationship associated with the one or more activities is identified. An affinity for one or more objects associated with the social network environment is then determined based on the one or more activities and the relationship. | 05-14-2015 |
20150142684 | Social Networking Software Application with Identify Verification, Minor Sponsorship, Photography Management, and Image Editing Features - An social networking software application provides identify verification, minor sponsorship, photography management, and image editing features, in addition to providing efficient product and employment advertising. An event photography module enables the management and purchase of event photographs. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149373 | Brand Scoring for Social Media Users - Techniques for brand scoring for social media users are described. In at least some embodiments, brand-related content that users post to a social media environment (e.g., social media website(s)) is identified and characterized. Based on attributes of a user and brand-related content posted by the user, a brand score for the user may be calculated. In at least some embodiments, a user's brand score provides an indication of the user's perception of a brand and/or the user's influence on perception of the brand in a social media environment. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149374 | RELATIONSHIP CIRCLE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed are a method, system and computer storage medium for processing relationship circle. The method includes: acquiring subgroups from a relationship circle; extracting subgroup attributes shared between members of the relationship circle from the subgroups; obtaining at least one recognition result from the subgroup attributes shared between members of the relationship circle; and mapping the at least one recognition result to the relationship circle. The system includes: a subgroup acquisition module, configured to acquire subgroups within a relationship circle; an extraction module, configured to extract subgroup attributes shared between members of the relationship circle from the subgroups; and a mapping module, configured to obtain at least one recognition result by analyzing the subgroup attributes shared between members of the relationship circle and map the at least one attribute recognition result to the relationship circle. Through the above solutions dynamic relationship circle mapping can be implemented. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149375 | CROWD ENDORSEMENT SYSTEM - In one aspect, this disclosure provides a crowd endorsement social engine for endorsing an athlete. In various aspects crowd endorsement of athletes includes income and training support for semi-pro, amateur, Olympic athletes, sponsorship from family, friends, fans, and social community. In one aspect, individual athlete campaigns highlight goals, progress and achievement. In another aspect, athletes produce blog style updates on progress, physiologic tweets during competition in the form of broadcasting messages. In another aspect, sponsors create emotional attachment to their athlete and his/her success and provide encouragement. In another aspect, fans that attend events provide live updates to athletes' pages. In another aspect, community growth is based on athlete adoption and sponsor base. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149376 | System for Providing Community-Based Accelerated Learning - Community-based accelerated learning provides a system where knowledge can be obtained in a simplified and optimized manner by presenting information in an incremental manner using a canonical curriculum. Community-based accelerated learning also provides an economic model for exchanging knowledge for currency. Community-based accelerated learning also provides an environment in which a user's digital representative (or avatar) can continuously search for sources of knowledge or experiences that match a user's specified goals. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294426 | CASE MANAGEMENT USING ACTIVE ENTITIES IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - Entities of a case are provided as active entities in a social network. As part of managing the case, a first of the active entities can interact with a second of the active entities using the social network. | 10-15-2015 |
20150294429 | System and Method for Assessing Athlete Recruiting Compatibility - A method and system for assessing compatibility between athletes and coaches. The system/method efficiently assesses one or more candidate athlete's athletic/academic/social/financial attributes, preferences and requirements, assesses one or more recruiting coach's corresponding preferences and requirements of a candidate athlete, and uses such information to quantitatively determine the degree to which such particular candidate athletes and particular recruiting coaches are a compatible recruiting match. The method and system provides for means for displaying a hierarchy of compatible athletes and coaches in a manner that provides for efficient evaluation of recruiting matches. The system/method is intended to assist in reducing the number of instances in which athletes are recruited to colleges for which they incompatible, either due to the athlete's preferences, or due to the college coach's preferences. The system/method is also intended to maximize the efficiency of the recruiting process by reducing the likelihood that incompatible athletes/coaches will pursue one another. | 10-15-2015 |
20150296264 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A SOCIAL NETWORK - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to collect one or more user-generated comments from each of a plurality of computing devices, detect a correlation in the one or more user-generated comments collected from the plurality of computing devices, and establish a social network between the plurality of computing devices according to the detected correlation. The one or more user-generated comments can be temporally associated with media content presented at the plurality of computing devices. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 10-15-2015 |
20150302356 | SOCIAL MEDIA LIFE SKILLS MATCHING - A social media site is disclosed for matching employers with people or workers having a particular life skill. The person or worker may or may not be looking for a job, or may never had a job related to a particular life skill, but such skill is searchable so an employer can find the best people for a job regardless if they are working or not. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302491 | REQUIREMENT FEASIBILITY SCORING BASED ON DATA OBJECT AND SOCIAL NETWORK WEBSITE - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for requirement feasibility scoring based on a data object and a social network website. In one method, one or more computing devices receive, over a network, a data object that is associated with a user and that includes a requirement. The computers obtain information from a social network website. The computers calculate, based on the data object and the information from the social network website, a score that indicates a likelihood of satisfying the requirement. The computers send the score over the network to a computing device of the user. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302533 | GLOBAL EXCHANGE PLATFORM FOR THE FILM INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS - In one aspect, disclosed is a global online portal which provides an end-to-end solution for film industry professionals worldwide and in all languages. From writers to directors to technicians, every vertical related to a film is listed in a separate category and validated/authenticated by the portal. Each listed entity is defined in categories depending on its rating arrived at via a logical process. The services of each listed entity along with commercial terms & availability of their schedules are posted on their homepages. The portal manages intellectual property issues and creates a global exchange platform for all potential film makers around the world. It enables one to buy scripts listed in one language and use them to make a film in a different language. It also allows a producer to pick his desired actors and crew members for his next film at the click of a mouse. | 10-22-2015 |
20150317608 | JOB RECRUITER AND JOB APPLICANT CONNECTOR - A system maintains member profiles and job postings on a social networking service, a business networking service, or a job posting service. The system displays a member profile to a job recruiter or a job posting to a job candidate. The system receives from the job recruiter an indication of an interest in the job candidate, and receives from the job candidate an indication of an interest in the job posting. After receiving both the interest of the recruiter and the interest of the member, the system transmits a message to the recruiter informing the recruiter of the interest of the job candidate and transmits a message to the job candidate informing the job candidate of the interest of the recruiter. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317609 | COMPANY PERSONNEL ASSET ENGINE - A system maintains one or more of member profiles, company profiles, and job postings on a social networking service. The system identifies a business organization using the one or more of member profiles, company profiles, and job postings. The system identifies a job title or a job function at the business organization using the one or more of member profiles, company profiles, and job postings. The system also identifies a number of employees in the job title or job function at the business organization using one or more of the member profiles and the company profiles. The system determines a number of years that each employee has been employed in the job title or job function for the business organization using at least the member profiles, and calculates an average time period that a typical employee has been in the job title or job function for the business organization. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317750 | EVENT AND LOCATION BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A system and method for establishing an event and location based social networking system is provided. A client application permits a user to create a profile, participate in events, and engage in a location-based social networking. The profile provides user information and characteristics the user seeks in other members. The system uses profile matching to permit social networking at an event or a location. The system also facilitates communications between users at a location/event, and enables users to initiate and engage in direct personal contact, if desired. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317752 | VIRTUAL FORUM FOR TRAVEL SERVICES - Methods, systems, and computer program products for communicating between a travel service provider and a plurality of travelers using a virtual social network. A virtual forum is created in a virtual social network and associated with a travel service provided by a travel service provider. The virtual forum may be linked with user accounts in the social network belonging to travelers who have booked the travel service. The links may be defined in response to the traveler booking the travel service, or by the traveler requesting the link. The travel service provider may then provide information relating to the travel service to the traveler via the virtual forum. The virtual forum may further provide a communications medium for travelers to interact with other travelers. Interested parties who have not booked the travel service may be able to access a portion of the information available through the virtual forum. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317753 | JOB RECOMMENDATION ENGINE USING A COMPANY EMPLOYEE PROFILE - A system maintains data relating to members and business organizations on a social networking service. The system analyzes the data to identify attributes of employees at a first business organization, creates an employee profile for the first business organization using the identified attributes of the employees, compares the employee profile for the first business organization to a profile of a member, and recommends to the member a job posted by the first business organization when the employee profile for the first business organization is similar to the profile of the member. | 11-05-2015 |
20150317754 | CREATION OF JOB PROFILES USING JOB TITLES AND JOB FUNCTIONS - A system maintains member profiles and job profiles on a social networking service, identifies a first business organization using one or more of the member profiles and the job profiles, identifies a job title or a job function at the first business organization using one or more of the member profiles and the job profiles, and creates a job profile for the job title or job function at the first business organization using the member profiles and the job profiles. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324749 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERNET-BASED HUMAN NETWORK BROKERING - Matches between search queries and potential targets of such search queries are automatically brokered by (i) comparing search criteria specified in the search queries with profile criteria describing the potential targets, and (ii) reporting instances of acceptable correspondence between the search criteria and the profile criteria, provided that access controls associated with the profile criteria of the targets permit such reporting in light of access levels assigned to the search inquiries. Initiators, using client applications at various remote locations, may formulate the search queries and the brokering may be performed at one or more server locations communicatively coupled (e.g., via the Internet) thereto. The profile criteria may include portions of rich descriptive profiles of the potential targets. | 11-12-2015 |
20150327038 | Facilitating event attendee networking - In various example embodiments, systems and methods for facilitating event attendee networking are provided. A plurality of check-ins associated with attendance of an event is received. Attendee members are identified from among members of a social network service based on the plurality of check-ins. Contact members are identified from among the attendee members for a particular member among the attendee members. An abridged attendee list that includes at least one of the identified attendee members and excludes at least one of the identified contact members is generated. The abridged attendee list is presented on a user device of the particular member. | 11-12-2015 |
20150332416 | INTERACTIONS IN SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, from a author user, a post data set associated with a post in a social networking service, the post data set including distribution data, the distribution data indicating one or more recipient users to which the first post is to be distributed, determining that at least one recipient user of the one or more recipient users is a non-direct intended recipient, the non-direct intended recipient not being a contact of the author user within the social networking service, receiving a social affinity score, the social affinity score indicating a strength of a relationship between the author user and the non-direct intended recipient, determining that the post is to be distributed to the non-direct intended recipient at least partially based on the social affinity score, and distributing the post to the non-direct intended recipient. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339631 | GoGig: A Mobile Platform that Matches Job Seekers with Job Recruiters Based on Desired Job Characteristics and Geo-location of the Mobile Device - This invention connects job seekers and job recruiters, online and through mobile and tablet applications, based on mutually sought after characteristics and geographic location. Job seekers will create profiles and search for jobs posted that match theft profiles while simultaneously reveal to job recruiters each job seeker's identifying information, work and education history, skills, and personality. Job recruiter can also post available jobs to which job seekers can apply or search out job seekers based on the content of job seekers' profiles. Results are available to job recruiters either by ranking the job seekers in order of percentage match or by showing the job seekers on a map to determine geographic distance from the available job. Upon a mutual match of a job recruiter and a job seeker, the users will be able to communicate online and through the application and thereafter set up an interview | 11-26-2015 |
20150339784 | Avatar Service for Multi-Channel Systems With Full-Scale Business Context Sensitivity - Handling changes in business context for a plurality of users in a multi-channel interactive information environment having a business context manager, an avatar service having a plurality of avatar service instances associated with the plurality of users, and a user information manager managing user preferences associated with the plurality of users. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339785 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING THIRD PARTY DATA ON WEBSITES - Systems and methods are provided for accessing and/or aggregating data from third party web sites. An aggregated candidate profile may be created and displayed based on information from a plurality of social networking profiles from various third party web sites. The social networking profiles may be identified based on automated analysis. The aggregated candidate may be created and/or displayed using a browser plug-in. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347974 | MULTI-OBJECTIVE RECRUITER SEARCH - A system includes a database, a network interface, and a processor. The database includes, for each multiple users of a social network, profile data and activities, by the user, related to the social network. The network interface is configured to be communicatively coupled to user devices associated with the population of users. The processor is configured to obtain a recruitment search query for a position in an organization, compare the recruitment search query against the profile data of at least some of the users to obtain a comparison, determine, for each of the at least some of the users, a likelihood of interacting with a recruiter associated with the position based on the activities of each of the at least some of the users, and transmit, to at least one of the users, a communication related to the position based, at least in part, on the comparison and the likelihood of interacting. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356691 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RELATIVE RATING OF ARTISTIC WORKS - Certain embodiments are directed to systems and methods for providing a user specific relative rating system for categories of artistic works. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356693 | PROVIDING EVENT-ATTENDANCE-RESPONSIVE NOTIFICATIONS VIA A HYBRID ARCHITECTURE - A method and system is presented for providing event-attendance-responsive notifications via a hybrid architecture including a computer system and a social networking platform separate from the computer system. As an example, the computer system may obtain, from the social networking platform, profile-related information indicating characteristics of the social networking platform users. The computer system may determine a set of users of the social networking platform that have similar characteristics as one another based on the profile-related information. The computer system may predict that a user of the set of social networking platform users is or will be attending an event. The computer system may cause a notification regarding an attendance status of the user with respect to the event to be presented to at least one other user of the set of social networking platform users as one another. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363895 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ONLINE INFORMATION BY A COMMUNITY MANAGER - The present invention defines, integrates, and simplifies the work processes for online moderating. The present invention simplifies the work processes for online community management, including website forwarding, and social middleware—specifically, the insertion of user generated content into business applications. The system enables the user to capture website information efficiently, add value by classifying and commenting on that information and forward the information using pre-formed message template to individuals, groups and other applications. The system may have varying degrees of automation depending on the implementation requirement, leaving the human community manager to efficiently focus only on what requires human judgment. | 12-17-2015 |
20150371341 | MANAGING SOCIAL FEED ASSIGNMENT - Moderation of social content is facilitated by the generation and assignment of social feeds to moderators. An admin tool may allow an administrator to generate a social feed by defining capture rules to capture social mentions from social networking services. The administrator may also select the social networking services for the social feed. The social feed may be assigned to moderators and/or moderator groups such that the social feed and the social mentions from the social feed appear in the moderation tools of the assigned moderators. The admin tool may also allow the administrator to further manage social feeds by unassigning moderators, modifying social feeds, deleting social feeds, and controlling privileges of moderators for social feeds. | 12-24-2015 |
20150371342 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ANIMALS AND THEIR GUARDIANS - An information processing device is provided. This information processing device may be configured to provide an animal social network such that a guardian may establish connections with one or more animals, such as littermates. The information processing device further provides a social network allowing for robust functionality, which may include alerting or notifying guardians of related animals of adverse medical conditions. | 12-24-2015 |
20150371343 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE AND CONTENT - A method for providing a social network service for providing a communication space among subscribers belonging to a group online includes providing, by an SNS server, a group category in units of objects according to a request for group establishment by a service subscriber, generating, by the SNS server, a social network group related to a category selected by the service subscriber, storing, by the SNS server, the generated social network group in correspondence to the group category, and providing content related to a category of the social network group. According to an embodiment, it is possible to provide meaningful content to groups, and the availability of the advertising business in SNS can be improved. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379648 | MINING OF USER EVENT DATA TO IDENTIFY USERS WITH COMMON INTERESTS - A computer-implemented matching service matches users to other users, and/or to user communities, based at least in part on a computer analysis of event data reflective of user behaviors. The event data may, for example, evidence user affinities for particular items represented in an electronic catalog, such as book titles, music titles, movie titles, and/or other types of items that tend to reflect the traits of users. Event data reflective of other types of user actions, such as item-detail-page viewing events, browse node visits, search query submissions, and/or web browsing patterns may additionally or alternatively be considered. By taking such event data into consideration, the matching service reduces the burden on users to explicitly supply personal profile information, and reduces poor results caused by exaggerations and other inaccuracies in such profile information. | 12-31-2015 |
20160005001 | Social Relation Management Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - The Social Relation Management Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“SRM”) transform automated social information gathering inputs via SRM components into activatable social account outputs. A social client outreach apparatus, comprising a processor and memory to obtain inactive client account information from social interaction of other users and then populate an actionable inactive social account with the obtained inactive client account information. Thereafter, the SRM may generate an actionable active social account from the populated account upon receiving an indication and verification of intended use from an interested client. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005133 | Communications Relay Portal - A system and method is provided for disseminating user contact information to requesting parties comprising the steps of creating a user account (personal or business) by receiving user contact information, verifying a user phone number, transmitting a verification code to a user device associated with the user phone number, receiving the verification code back from the user, and prompting the user to create a password. A user email is then generated that is associated with the user account and contains the user phone number, and optionally, an extension indicating a business account. Upon receiving an email at the user email address from a requesting party, the user phone number from the user email address is cross-referenced with existing user accounts to determine if the requested user account exists, and additionally, whether a business account exists. A formatted virtual business card is then generated for the requested user account. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005134 | COURTING AND DATING TECHNOLOGY - A method of facilitating courting and dating is performed by at least one computing device. The method includes steps of displaying a courtship offer for a date from a first person to a user, acquiring from the user an acceptance of the courtship offer, a rejection of the courtship offer, or a request for a better courtship offer, and transmitting to the first person the acceptance of the courtship offer or the request for a better courtship offer through a communication system or channel. Also, a method from the perspective of the first person. Furthermore, computing devices configured to perform the methods. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005135 | LOCATION AND/OR REWARD BASED SOCIAL NETWORK - Social network systems provisioned for talent and fan interaction and communications (and methods related thereto). In some embodiments, social networks which reward fans for participation. In the same or other optional embodiments, social networks which reward talent for attracting or obtaining or retaining fan followers or subscribers. In still other optional embodiments, social networks in which geographical locations of talent and/or fans can be utilized as the basis for talent/fan interaction or communications or to supplement the content of talent/fan interaction or communications. | 01-07-2016 |
20160005136 | Method of, and a System for, Analysing Data Relating to an Individual - A data analysis system ( | 01-07-2016 |
20160012552 | OPTIMIZING USER SELECTION FOR PERFORMING TASKS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS | 01-14-2016 |
20160019658 | ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING IMPACT OF SOCIAL BUSINESS COLLABORATION - A tool for recommending social channel usage to achieve a targeted outcome. The tool determines, by one or more computer processors, a plurality of social channel usage information for one or more employees. The tool determines, by one or more computer processors, a plurality of outcome information for the one or more employees. The tool determines, by one or more computer processors, based, at least in part, on the plurality of social channel usage information and the plurality of outcome information for the one or more employees, one or more analytical models. The tool determines, by one or more computer processors, based, at least in part, on the one or more analytical models, one or more recommendations to achieve a targeted outcome. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019659 | PREDICTING THE BUSINESS IMPACT OF TWEET CONVERSATIONS - A system and methods are provided for identifying conversations in tweet streams. A method includes grouping tweet messages in the tweet streams into tweet groups, responsive to hashtags therefor and time intervals in which the tweet message were sent. The method further includes splitting the tweet groups into subgroups responsive to secondary hashtags and a time separation between the tweets messages. The method also includes clustering any of the subgroups into a respective same conversation responsive to word occurrences, word frequencies, and account holders. The method additionally includes merging any of the subgroups having different hashtags into the respective same conversation responsive to overlapping glossary and account lists. Each of the tweet groups and each of the subgroups correspond to a respective different one of the conversations when unable to be split, clustered, or merged. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019661 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SOCIAL NETWORKS BASED UPON PREDETERMINED OBJECTIVES - In many embodiments, a relationship management system includes a relationship management server system that identifies an objective with respect to an entity defined by a customer relationship management (CRM) service, identifies a first set of contacts associated with the objective, aggregates event information associated with the first set of contacts, scores the objective based upon event information associated with the first set of contacts to generate at least one engagement score, and provides recommendation data to the CRM service from which a task is created within the CRM service associated with at least one contact in the first set of contacts based upon the at least one engagement score. | 01-21-2016 |
20160027072 | INTEGRATED MECHANISM FOR SHARING INDIVIDUAL DATA TO A CENTRAL SYSTEM AND SOCIAL NETWORKS - A data processing system is disclosed that includes a social network user account operating on a social network, wherein the social network user account includes user data that uniquely identifies a user and associated algorithmic functionality uniquely associated with the user, and the social network includes a plurality of server systems that are configured to execute the algorithmic functionality uniquely associated with the user on demand. A charitable website independent from the social network and configured to provide data to a web browser system in response to a request from the user. A graphic user interface control operating in conjunction with the charitable website and having associated functionality for correlating a donation to the charitable website with the social network user account. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027129 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RATING ENTITIES WITHIN A PEER NETWORK - A method of providing a rating for an entity within a network of entities comprises receiving, from a ratee entity requiring a rating, a message including a nomination of one or more rating entities. Each nominated rating entity may be presented with a request to respond to a set of questions in relation to the ratee entity. Each response can be selected from a corresponding rating scale. Resulting response scores on the rating scale are subsequently received from the rating entities. A qualification measure is computed for each of the rating entities. The qualification measure may comprise a capability measure, a bias measure and/or a familiarity measure. For each rating entity, a rating score is computed for the ratee entity based upon the response scores and the qualification measure of the rating entity. An overall rating score of the ratee entity is then computed based upon the individual rating scores. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034579 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - A method, computer program product, and computing system for rendering a plurality of mutually-exclusive descriptors for a user of a dating website. At least two selections are received from the user, wherein these two selections are chosen from the plurality of mutually-exclusive descriptors. The at least two selections are included in a user profile accessible by the dating website and associated with the user. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035045 | IDENTIFYING OCCUPATION OF A PROFESSIONAL USING PROFILE AND SOCIAL DATA - Systems and methods are disclosed that determines an occupation for a member of a social networking site based on information obtained from a profile of that member. The obtained information may include employment information, such as a job title, skills that the member has identified as possessing, endorsements by other members of the identified skills, and information about the endorsers of the endorsements. The disclosed systems and methods may determine one or more probabilities for various occupations that the member may have, and may further adjust those probabilities based on the obtained information. The systems and methods may additionally provide a list of members that have a given occupation based on the corresponding occupation probability of the given occupation. The systems and methods may also provide a list of organizations (i.e., employers) where it was determined that it was unlikely that the organization has any members with the given occupation. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042413 | Systems and Methods for the Recording and Selective Distribution and Selective Communal Analysis of Consumer Reviews - A system and method for the recording and selective distribution and selective communal analysis of commercial and non-commercial consumer reviews, which are prioritized on the basis of hierarchical geographical location or hierarchical chronological value. Also described is a system offered to users to create reviews and or review reviews, with categories and to ascribe importance in terms of physical proximity or in the case non-physically dependent services and products, temporal proximity. Also described is a system whereby authors whose reviews lead to further reviews by affiliated parties and in commercial traffic may be rewarded by a benefiting commercial partner. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042473 | METHOD FOR MANAGING VIA WEB DATA RELATED TO AN EVENT AND/OR A PERSON AND/OR AN ORGANIZATION - A method for managing data concerning an event, in particular a sport event and/or an individual, in particular an athlete, and/or an organization through a Internet network and for transmitting a stream of audio and/or video data concerning the event on at least one streaming channel. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042474 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - [Object] To effectively award incentives to the users to allow users to share their behavior information through a user object displayed in a virtual space. | 02-11-2016 |
20160042477 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROFILING PROFESSIONALS - A method for profiling entities or individuals includes automatically generating, by a profile generator executing on a first computing device, a profile of at least one of a professional and an entity. The method includes automatically analyzing, by an analysis engine executing on the first computing device, the generated profile. The method includes determining, by the analysis engine, responsive to the analysis, at least one of a level of expertise and a level of influence in an industry of the at least one of the professional and the entity. The method includes transmitting, by the analysis engine, to a second computing device, an identification of the determined level of expertise. In one embodiment, the method includes generating, by a prediction engine executing on the first computing device a prediction of a future modification to the profile. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048931 | System and Method for the Creation of DNA Guilds for Structuring Socially-, Legally- and Financially-Related Groups of Allelically or Phenotypically Related Individuals - The invention provides a method for the automated or semi-automated creation and management of human groups based on common genetic conditions, either real as confirmed by DNA or other genetic or hereditary assays, or hypothesized with respect to common phenotypic traits of group members. These groups, known individually as a “DNA Guild” and in plurality as “DNA Guilds,” are based on a customized triumvirate of social, legal and financial structural contracts which together comprise the individual operative charter for each DNA Guild. This novel structure solves the problem of how to form efficiently a plurality of distinct, special-purpose interest groups comprised of individuals or entities with interests related to specific genetic conditions, without the high overhead and risk of failure typically associated with founding traditional corporations, non-profit organizations, or other high-cost-overhead or loosely-structured groups. | 02-18-2016 |
20160050240 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENTITY STATUS - An entity status system for a marketplace communication comprising a client device and a computational device communicatively connected to the client device through a network. The computational device has a data store and an executing unit including a processor. The executing unit is configured to provide a user interface on the client device, allow an entity user or an administrator to upload updates related to a business life cycle of the entities and a marketplace information through the user interface to the data store and enables retrieval of the updates and the marketplace information from the data store for sharing with the customer users wherein the updates related to the business life cycle of the entities or the marketplace information enable the customer users to get the marketplace communication in real time. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055597 | REPUTATION SCORING SYSTEM FOR PROJECT BASED PROFESSIONALS - A reputation scoring system for project based professionals is provided. The reputation scoring system ( | 02-25-2016 |
20160057499 | PROFILING MEDIA CHARACTERS - Provided is a process of matching media characters, the process including: obtaining a plurality of character records, each character record including a trait vector specifying traits of the respective character; receiving a request from a user device to match characters in the character records, the request identifying at least one reference character record; calculating, with one or more processors, matching scores indicative of similarity between the trait vector of the reference character record and trait vectors of other character records among the plurality of character records; selecting a responsive character record from among the plurality of character records based on the matching scores; and sending instructions to the user device to display information about a character of the responsive character record. | 02-25-2016 |
20160063441 | JOB POSTER IDENTIFICATION - Techniques for determining that a member viewing a job posting has hiring authority are described. A determination module can identify a member viewing a job posting and access member data for the identified member. Additionally, the determination module can determine an entity associated with the job posting based on the accessed member data, and access job listing data for the determined entity. Moreover, the determination module can determine a score value based on the accessed member data and the accessed job listing data. The score value corresponds to a likelihood that the identified member has hiring authority for the job posting. Furthermore, an upsell module can upsell the job listing to the identified member based on the score value being higher than a predetermined threshold. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063442 | USING AN EMPLOYEE DATABASE WITH SOCIAL MEDIA CONNECTIONS TO CALCULATE JOB CANDIDATE REPUTATION SCORES - Systems for using social media sites in recruiting activities. Potential candidates for job openings are considered using computer-implemented analysis of an online social referral graph and a rule base. Content from one or more social data sources is retrieved and analyzed to identify potential candidates for a job opening. The potential candidate's social data comprises information used as a reputation score pertaining to the potential candidate and as a reputation score pertaining to the potential candidate's social connections. An employee database is cross referenced to find a match between employees and any of the potential candidate's social connections. A referral score based on an influence contribution measure, a clout contribution measure, a generosity contribution measure, an activity contribution measure, an impact contribution measure, or an engagement contribution measure is calculated. When the reputation score and/or the referral score meets or exceeds a threshold, the potential candidate is considered for outreach. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063648 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES TO PROFESSIONALS - Systems and methods are presented for recommending volunteer opportunities to users in an online network. In some embodiments, a method is presented. The method may include accessing, in a device, at least one member profile attribute of a user in an online network, the at least one member profile attribute associated with a plurality of volunteer opportunities. The method may also include accessing information associated with the plurality of volunteer opportunities, generating a relevance score for each of the plurality of volunteer opportunities based on the at least one member profile attribute and the information associated with the plurality of volunteer opportunities, ranking the plurality of volunteer opportunities based on the relevance scores, and displaying at least some of the plurality of volunteer opportunities to the user based on the ranking. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063650 | AUGMENTING CORPORATE IDENTITY WITH DATA FROM PUBLIC SOCIAL NETWORKS - Disclosed herein is a system and method for augmenting a corporate profile of a user on a private social network with profile information from at least one public social network. Once the profiles have been integrated groups associated with the private social network are analyzed to determine if there are groups that the user should belong to based on a similarity between their profile features and the membership features of each of the groups. The groups may be internal to the private social network or may be hosted by a public social network. Users may be removed from the groups as well based on changes in their profiles. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063651 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING SOCIAL POSITIONING AND IMPORTANCE THROUGH PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ATTRIBUTES - A system and method for generating a local group and enhancing a personal importance over a social networking platform is disclosed. The method comprises registering a user over the social networking platform comprising a personal information and a professional information of the user. During registration the user selects a registered mobile number, updates a timeline of the user, and uploads a plurality of status updates, images, audio files, video, blogs and weblinks on the timeline. A number for likes and dislikes over a registered user's blogs, images and weblinks is generated along with allocation of a positive credit for each like and a negative credit for each dislike over the registered user's blogs, images and weblinks and display of a highest credited user details over a homepage of a local group page and a global group of the social networking platform. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070961 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PLOTTING SOCIAL NETWORK CONNECTIONS FROM IMAGE DATA - A method of establishing a connection among a plurality of persons according to embodiments of the present invention may include executing instructions by a processor to identify a characteristic that is present in a first image of a portfolio of images and in a second image of the portfolio of images; defining by the characteristic an association of the first image and the second image; and defining a social connection between a first person associated with the first image and a second person associated with the second image. According to some embodiments, a method of identifying a connection between a first person and a second person, may include: receiving, by a computing device, at least one image that may include a data characteristic associated with the first person and with the second person; automatically identifying that the at least one image includes the characteristic; and automatically associating the first person and the second person. Additional methods according to embodiments of the present invention are provided. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071222 | System and methods for managing relationships in a business network - A system and methods for managing relationships between business entities and the entities that represent them in a business network. | 03-10-2016 |
20160086289 | DETERMINE A SCHOOL RANK UTILIZING ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORK DATA - Method and system to determine a school rank utilizing on-line social network data is described. A school ranking system may be configured to determine a ranking of a school based on career outcomes data which may be Obtained from member profile data stored by an on-line social network system. The school ranking system may examine the member profiles and determine how many of the target school alumni can be considered successful alumni and then calculate a success score for a school as a number of successful alumni divided by the total number of the school's alumni. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092837 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPLEMENTING JOB POSTINGS WITH SOCIAL NETWORK DATA - The present application present systems and methods for leveraging existing sources of information to supplement and enhance job opening postings and other types of business postings. A plurality of sources, including social network sites, talent profiles, and/or surveys and questionnaires are accessed in order to retrieve data relating to a business object. The retrieved data is transformed, such that it may be used to supplement job opening postings and other types of postings with job description data, work culture data, and other business-related data in order to build a social brand for the business. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092838 | JOB POSTING STANDARDIZATION AND DEDUPLICATION - Techniques for standardizing and deduplicating unpaid job postings obtained from third-party systems are described. An unpaid job posting is obtained by a social networking service from a third-party system. The title and description of the unpaid job posting are standardized and combined into a standardized unpaid job posting. A deduplication process is performed to prevent the standardized unpaid job posting from replacing a paid job posting within the social networking service, and to prevent the standardized unpaid job posting from replacing a more authoritative, unpaid job posting within the social networking service. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092997 | Identity Mapping Between Commerce Customers And Social Media Users - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for identity mapping between commerce customers and social media users. Aspects of the invention use inferred attributes and activity correlations from both commerce data and social media data to map identities. In one aspect, activity correlations are calculated between a commerce customer account and each of the one or more candidate social media user accounts. For each of the one or more candidate social media user accounts, a probability that the commerce customer account and the social media user account map to the same identity is calculated. In another aspect, the accuracy of a mapping between a commerce customer account and a social media user is evaluated using additional social media data. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092998 | TECHNIQUES FOR IDENTIFYING AND RECOMMENDING SKILLS - Disclosed in some examples are methods, machine readable mediums, and systems for providing a list of skills a member should learn in order to achieve a particular goal. The system may provide a user interface to the member of the social networking service. Through the user interface, the member may select one or more goals that they wish to achieve. Based upon these goals, the list of skills associated with that goal may be determined—this list is a goal set of skills. The goal set of skills may be compared to the member's current skills. Skills in the list of goal skills that the member does not already possess may be recommended to the member. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092999 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INFORMATION EXCHANGE WITH A SOCIAL NETWORK - Systems and methods are presented for providing information exchange between a social network and partners of the social network. In some example embodiments, a method is presented. The method may include accessing, at a device associated with a social network, information from a social network partner, with the information being offered as an exchange for information found in the social network. The method may also include determining a measurement of value to the social network of the information from the social network partner; accessing a confirmation to submit the information from the social network partner to the social network, based on the determined measurement of value; and exchanging the information from the social network partner for a measurement of credit based on the determined measurement of value and the submission confirmation. | 03-31-2016 |
20160104254 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS USED FOR PUBLISHING AND AGGREGATING REAL WORLD AND ONLINE PURCHASES VIA STANDARDIZED PRODUCT INFORMATION - The present disclosure relates to enabling users to publishing product information associated with their previous purchases via a social network. In one example of the present disclosure, user data associated with a user having an account on a social network is obtained. Product information associated with an identified product from a product database is then obtained, the identified product having been previously purchased by the user and the identified product being selected by the user from a user device. An application programming interface of the social network is then invoked to publish the product information associated with the identified product to the account. | 04-14-2016 |
20160104261 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING AN E-LEARNING COURSE DELIVERY PLATFORM WITH AN ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORK - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for integrating electronic learning (eLearning) platforms with Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) in corporate learning settings. | 04-14-2016 |
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20160125361 | AUTOMATED JOB INGESTION - Techniques for ingesting job listings are described. A job ingestion module of a social network system can access a seed uniform resource locator (URL), and identify a job URL from the seed URL. Additionally, the job ingestion module can obtain job attributes from the job URL. Furthermore, the job ingestion module can validate the obtained field attributes using member data from the social network system. Moreover, the job ingestion module can generate a job listing based on the validated job attributes. Subsequently, the job ingestion module can post the generated job listing. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125560 | PREDICTIVE USES OF LARGE SCALE DATA IN SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS - A system and method for generating an admittance prediction based on historical admittance data that predicts whether a particular member of a social networking system will be admitted to a particular education institution is disclosed. A social networking system stores admittance data for a plurality of education institutions. The social networking system receives a request for a prediction concerning whether a first member of a social networking service will be admitted to a first education institution in the plurality of education institutions. The social networking system compares qualification data associated with the first member to admittance data stored in memory of the social networking server. The social networking system generates an admittance prediction based on the comparison of the qualification data associated with the first member with historic admittance data. The social networking system transmits the admittance prediction to the client system for display. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132832 | GENERATING COMPANY PROFILES BASED ON MEMBER DATA - Techniques for automatically generating a company profile in a social network are described. A profile generation module can access employment data from a member profile in a social network. Additionally, the profile generation module can determine an employer based on the accessed employment data. Furthermore, the profile generation module can verify that the determined company does not have an existing entity profile in the social network. Moreover, the profile generation module can authenticate the verified employer based on member data from the social network. Subsequently, the profile generation module can generate and post the entity profile on the social network. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132972 | SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM - A method for a social media platform is described. In one embodiment, data that includes information associated with social media content is identified. A question is presented via a user interface. The question is based at least in part on one or more of the identified data, data provided by a moderator, and data gathered and sorted by category. A response to the user is provided based at least in part on receiving a user input or receiving no user input. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140671 | System and Method for Dynamically Generating A Content Correlated Service Based Mobile Social Network - A system and method of dynamically generating a content correlated service based mobile social network includes the steps of connecting users through automatic correlation and association of at least one of the common service characteristics and business classifications of the contents, based on sharing and matching of a set of favorite attributes of the contents and preference criteria of users, without the sharing of personal private and sensitive information. The system and method includes automatic self discovery of favorite businesses and services from the user's own preferences and those of the matching users in the user's internal and external social connections, and the online searching, ranking, notification and utilization of a list of recommended favorite businesses and services in the desired local proximity by the user. The system and method further includes the self generation, uploading, and update of the detailed records of the businesses and services that are readily accessible in such that the users and consumers can share their life experiences or personal preferences, and to establish mutual social connections based on their common interest to the local businesses and services. | 05-19-2016 |
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