47 results about "Community member" patented technology

The invention relates to management of contact lists in a presence enabled application supported by a communication system and having a client side on a user equipment and a server side within a presence enabled network accessible by the users through said communication system, the application being of a type in which uses of the application form time-variable virtual communities of users that temporarily interact for the purposes of the application. The method includes: users' registration with the server-side of the application, to provide candidates for the virtual communities; creation, from the candidates, of a list of the members of each virtual community in a buddy list management unit in the presence enabled network; notification of the buddy list by the list management unit to client units in the user equipment of members of the community; and displaying the notified list on the user equipment of each member receiving it.

A digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from a user's social media account or her or his community members' social media accounts. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer, and a viewer profile automatically determined from the identity of the viewer. The displayed photos are automatically shown and / or changed according to the detected viewers.

A method and system for managing membership in a collaborative computing environment community are provided. Identification of a selected a group of end user persons to invite to join the collaborative computing community is received. The selected group is evaluated to identify one or more invitees there from. The one or more identified invitees are invited to join the community. An indication from one or more invitees that the invitee wishes to join the community is received.

Implementations of various methods and systems to transform navigation routes with two waypoints or a destination waypoint or a series sequence of waypoints into objects which are communities to which user(s) may subscribe, friend, follow or be a member of the community. The present disclosed invention relates to combining the concepts of objected oriented programming and navigation systems and social networking and transportation as a fungible asset class or transportation as an open market.

An approach is provided for locating communities over an ad-hoc mesh network. Community identifiers are used to locate communities and community members over an ad- hoc mesh network. The community identifiers are also associated with keys to authenticate members of the community and to protect the privacy and anonymity of information exchanged between the members.

A method for managing reputation scores of members of an online community, wherein each member is associated with a set of inviting members having invited that member to join the online community and with a set of invited members having being invited by that member to join the online community. The method includes, for each member: determining a respective reputation score at the time when he / she joins the online community; and updating the respective reputation score based on a change in the reputation score of at least one of: at least one inviting member among the respective set of inviting members, or at least one invited member among the respective set of invited members.

A picture frame and methods of use. The picture frame includes a housing with a display area on a first side and a back panel on an opposite second side from the display. The back panel includes an asymmetrical nonplanar shape and / or an off-center rotatable stand. A network connection allows digital frames to upload of photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members. An integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer and can capture gesture-based feedback. The displayed photos are automatically shown and / or changed according to the detected viewers. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires.

An online safe driver community having driving and vehicle related information and services made available to members of the community. A method for covering costs associated with an insurance deductible.

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.

The invention provides selectable, qualified sub-groups of a social media membership community may render assistant to community members having a need therefore for in the making of decisions related to personal goal attainment and in the formulation of tasks by which such goals may be attained. The participants in all aspects, inclusive of the individual requesting objective attainment assistance, members voting upon a specific goal-attainment related inquiry, and parties providing a system oversight to the interaction occurring between anonymous forums and users requesting assistance, all receive commercial credits of varying types.

A digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from a user's social media account or her or his community members' social media accounts. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer, and a viewer profile automatically determined from the identity of the viewer. The displayed photos are automatically shown and / or changed according to the detected viewers.

The invention includes mechanisms and methods supporting a first party defining members of a community. Development of at least one legacy archive for access only by the members of the community. Development of legacy content for integration into the legacy archive. These activities and mechanisms generate revenue. The defined community, its legacy archive, the legacy content and the revenue are products of the invention's process. The invention may further include a restricted access mechanism to the legacy archive only for the community members to create revenue. A communications access provider may further host the restricted access mechanism. The invention may include mechanisms and methods specifying and supporting at least one instance of the legacy archive, for delivery to a community member. The invention further includes specifying and creating updates to these legacy archive instances based upon legacy content provided for integration. These activities and mechanisms further generate revenue. The legacy content may further include a time capsule including a second legacy content with an instruction disabling access until a specified time.

The invention discloses an open source community code contribution excitation method and device based on a block chain, and is used for solving the problems that an existing open source community management mode is not beneficial to motivating the sharing enthusiasm of community parts and promoting the vigorous development of an open source community. The method comprises the following steps: receiving open source related data submitted by a contributor and an expected influence factor specified by the contributor for the open source related data through a blockchain network; according to a preset contribution excitation standard in the blockchain network, determining an auditing result of the auditor for the open source related data, the preset contribution excitation standard representing a corresponding relationship among the open source related data, a standard influence factor and an excitation resource; and processing the auditing result. According to the method, the contributionenthusiasm of contributors can be stimulated based on fair and fair preset contribution incentive standards, the authenticity of related data of auditing results is ensured, and the legitimate interests of the contributors are maintained.

The invention discloses a community user portrait generation method and device. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring community member information provided by a community committee, dataof a reservation platform, video analysis data, public opinion platform data, AI access control system data and intelligent customer service system data; according to community member information provided by the community resident committee, determining population labels and social characteristics of users of the community user portraits; and performing statistical analysis on the data of the reservation platform, the public opinion platform data and the intelligent customer service system data, determining interest characteristics of each user of the community user portrait, and determiningconsumption characteristics of each user of the community user portrait according to the community member information, the video analysis data, the AI access control system data and the data of the reservation platform. According to the big data of the intelligent community platform, the community user portrait is generated, and the pushing service based on the user portrait can be realized.

A method and system for the establishment and maintenance of a collaborative computing community. The community includes one or more community members having membership data corresponding to their membership stored in a database and one or more collaborative components. A membership adapter interface is used to facilitate an exchange of information between the database and the collaborative components. A community template stored in which the community template indicates which collaborative components are accessible by the one or more community members. Such indication can be provided by data in a community role table of roles within the community, a collaborative component table identifying one or more collaborative components and API locations corresponding to the one or more collaborative components and a role map defining a mapping between the community roles in the community role table, named permission sets and the one or more identified collaborative components.

A picture frame and methods of setup, gifting, and / or use. Network connection allows digital frames to be set up remotely by a first user for a second user. The first user can upload photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members before the second user receives the frame device. The frame is thus ready for display upon powering on by the second user. An integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer and can capture gesture-based feedback. The displayed photos are automatically shown and / or changed according to the detected viewers. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires.

The invention discloses an interactive community search method and device based on a graph neural network. The interactive community search method comprises the following steps: constructing a given candidate sub-graph GS according to a query node and a mark node of a user; constructing a graph neural network model M through a given candidate sub-graph GS; carrying out convergence on the graph neural network model M to obtain a graph neural network score of each node, and updating a given candidate sub-graph according to the graph neural network scores; and selecting a final target community according to the updated given candidate sub-graph and the set community size k. According to the method, a target community is positioned through a sub-graph dynamically collected in an online network, a community member relationship problem is reconstructed into a node classification problem by using a graph neural network, and a community with the size of k is introduced to describe the target community. According to the method, the similarity and the difference between the graph nodes and the annotation nodes can be captured by flexibly combining content and structural features, a community with high accuracy and accurate size is searched in an iteration and interaction mode, and the burden of a user is reduced by utilizing sorting loss.

Implementations of various methods and systems to transform navigation routes with two waypoints or a destination waypoint or a series sequence of waypoints into objects which are communities to which user(s) may subscribe, friend, follow or be a member of the community. The present disclosed invention relates to combining the concepts of objected oriented programming and navigation systems and social networking and transportation as a fungible asset class or transportation as an open market.

The present invention provides a computer-implemented method. The method comprises determining a current block stored in a block chain data structure and stored in the database, wherein the current block comprises the data related to a first energy transfer transaction for transferring charge from a community member device; searching the predetermined data in the block chain data structure, wherein the predetermined data indicates an energy transfer from at least one primary energy provider device controlled by a primary energy provider to the community member device, upon determining in the block chain data structure at least one block containing the predetermined data, generating a new block with data corresponding to a current reward transaction between the primary energy provider and the community member, based on the data of the at least one block and the data of the current block; and adding the new block in the block chain data structure.

A method and system for managing membership in a collaborative computing environment community are provided. Identification of a selected a group of end user persons to invite to join the collaborative computing community is received. The selected group is evaluated to identify one or more invitees there from. The one or more identified invitees are invited to join the community. An indication from one or more invitees that the invitee wishes to join the community is received.

Methods and systems for distributed cognition of digital content include receiving submissions from community members regarding a knowledge object. Each community member has a reputation value and each submission includes an evaluation value representing an evaluation of the knowledge object by the community member. A consensus evaluation is determined based on a calculated combination of the evaluation values in the submissions received and the reputation values of the respective community members who submitted the submissions. While submissions are being received, the consensus evaluation of the knowledge object is iteratively updated based on submissions received, being a calculated combination of the evaluation values in the submissions received and the reputation values of the respective community members who submitted the submissions. Additionally, the reputation value for each community member who submitted the submissions is iteratively updated based on a determined contribution of the respective community member's submission to the updated consensus evaluation.

A computer-implemented method is provided, and the method comprises generating a digital data block comprising the transaction data representing at least one energy transfer transaction correspondingto an exchange of charge between a community member device and a charge source device, randomly selecting, in a group of community member devices, a plurality of block verification devices, wherein the block verification devices form a subgroup of block verification devices, partitioning a block verification computation task for the digital data block into a plurality of block verification computation subtasks, assigning the block verification computation subtasks to the respective selected block verification devices, transmitting the digital data block to each selected block verification device, together with its respective block verification computation subtask over a computer network, determining that the digital data block is verified, based on at least one verification results of a corresponding block verification computation subtask, and adding the verified block to a block chain-enabled storage system.

Systems and methods for recruiting, counter-terrorism / security, insurance underwriting, sales and marketing improvement, decisioning financial transactions and collections, and social scoring are provided. Machine learning can assign connectivity values to other community members, including individuals, companies, products, brands, cities or neighborhoods, etc. Connectivity values may be automatically harvested from or assigned by third parties or based on the frequency and / or type of interactions between community members. Connectivity values may represent such factors as alignment, reputation within the community, degree of trust, competence at one or more skills, or compatibility with others. The degree and type of connectivity between two entities may be assessed by computing a connectivity value based upon connections between entities and relative or absolute trust, competence and / or compatibility features of the connections. Connectivity values identify best prospects (customers, hires, dates), find off-grid people, underwrite insurance, ‘decision’ loans & collections, shorten sales cycles, etc.

A method, system, and / or apparatus for automatically monitoring for possible infection or other physical health concerns, such as from Covid-19. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and / or other device applications. The method and system automatically uses and / or learns user location and activity patterns and determines and infection risk that can be communicated as a warning to community members.

The invention provides novel mobile community application which is characterized in that a specific motion is produced according to votes of community members, and the corresponding motion is carried out on client equipment of the community members; following operation among the mobile community members is carried out; and alarming in a community and navigation and alarm functions performed through the alarming are achieved.

A method, system, and / or apparatus for automatically monitoring for possible infection or other physical health concerns, such as from Covid-19. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and / or other device applications. The method and system automatically uses and / or learns user location and activity patterns and determines and infection risk or illness-based deviation that can be communicated as a warning to community members.