147 results about "Discussion group" patented technology

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.

System and method for removing threads from discussion groups based on ratings of the individual posts within the thread. If a user takes the time to rate a post positively, then the post (and the thread) is considered to be useful to the entire community and should not be deleted. To rate the post, a window is displayed to the user whenever the post is open and queries the user whether the post is useful. A positive rating rates a delete date associated with the post. If there is not positive rating of a post, the thread may be considered useful if the originator of a post marks the post as being answered, in which case delete clock is reset. If however, none of the posts within the thread are rated positively, then the thread is considered not be useful and deleted.

An online Gift Registry Service provides registration of information for a gift registrant and allows access to the registry by potential gift giver users. In addition, users can tag items of interest at participating Service Provider (SP) sites and the SP sites will register these items with the Gift Registry Service on the user's behalf. It further provides a streamlined checkout process for purchasing these gift items with the registered SP sites (e.g. World Wide Web sites) over a distributed public network. Users and Service Providers (SP) initially register with the Gift Registry Service and are provided additional functionality. For users, a reminder service is provided to notify individuals automatically upon the trigger of certain events, such as important dates or product sales from online merchants. In addition, there are various occasion planning services available such as distribution lists, discussion groups, and other related resources for multiple events including weddings, baby showers, etc. These other resources include sending out announcements, reserving halls, and contracting services of related businesses for the occasion. A distinct advantage of this system is that users can perform all the planning for the event online in the comfort of their home or office. Service Providers on the other hand, can register system notification messages to be triggered on pre-determined events. In addition, Service Providers can obtain marketing information to tailor their products and services.

Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating and maintaining personal data, such as an address book, a financial portfolio, a discussion groups or blogs book, or other types of personal data stores, based on a person's structured search data and / or usage data (e.g., browsing) and / or other sources of personal data (e.g., emails the user receives). Related metadata can also be used in the generating and / or maintaining of the personal data. Dynamic personal data ranking and / or autocomplete functions are also provided, which can be used in conjunction with the automatic generation and maintenance of the user's personal data, to further ease the user's burden in managing and / or handling such data.

Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating and maintaining personal data, such as an address book, a financial portfolio, a discussion groups or blogs book, or other types of personal data stores, based on a person's structured search data and / or usage data (e.g., browsing) and / or other sources of personal data (e.g., emails the user receives). Related metadata can also be used in the generating and / or maintaining of the personal data. Dynamic personal data ranking and / or autocomplete functions are also provided, which can be used in conjunction with the automatic generation and maintenance of the user's personal data, to further ease the user's burden in managing and / or handling such data.

Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating and maintaining personal data, such as an address book, a financial portfolio, a discussion groups or blogs book, or other types of personal data stores, based on a person's structured search data and / or usage data (e.g., browsing) and / or other sources of personal data (e.g., emails the user receives). Related metadata can also be used in the generating and / or maintaining of the personal data. Dynamic personal data ranking and / or autocomplete functions are also provided, which can be used in conjunction with the automatic generation and maintenance of the user's personal data, to further ease the user's burden in managing and / or handling such data.

A system is disclosed that provides a goal based learning system utilizing a rule based expert training system to provide a cognitive educational experience. The system provides the user with a simulated environment that presents a training opportunity to understand and solve optimally. The technique establishes a collaborative training session, including the steps of establishing a network connection between a plurality of users, selecting a mode for the network connection between the plurality of users, establishing a network connection mode between the plurality of users, and synchronizing the mode between the plurality of users. Modes of operation include application sharing, whiteboarding, media sharing, newsgroup information sharing chatroom initiation and discussion group initiation.

In response to an event occurring on a user's computer, a system, method, and user interface automatically determine the nature and context of the event, and search a database for support items, such as other users' comments, suggestions, or answers that are relevant to the event. Events can include, for example, errors, usage problems, or other difficulties with the software application, operating system, or hardware. Other resources, such as bulletin boards, discussion groups, websites, and the like, can also be automatically searched for support items using the parameters and context describing the event. The system and method select those support item or items that are most highly rated by other users as providing accurate, reliable, or otherwise useful information, and that appear to be the most relevant to the event. Also provided, in one embodiment, is a mechanism by which a user can evaluate a support item after he or she has read it.

A system and method for document filtering and selection based on quality automatically operates to make value judgments for document retrieval. Items of data, e.g. documents, are automatically associated a value. Items of data may be then selected based upon value, which is not only for the specific subject or topic requested, but also desirable according to certain criteria, including each document's quality. A specific application of the invention is to a filter for computerized bulletin boards. Many of these systems, also known as discussion groups, have thousands of new messages per day. Readers and human editors do not have time to classify new messages by quality quickly. Messages may be ranked by quality automatically, to perform the same function performed by a human editor or moderator. Values and qualities may be assigned by interestingness, appropriateness, timeliness, humor, style of language, obscenity, sentiment, and any combinations thereof, for example.

A system that enables enterprises to design, create integrate and operate online communities. The system operates as an on-demand hosted platform (software-as-a-service) that provides a secure and reliable architecture on which enterprises can safely and securely develop, execute and manage their online communities. The platform combines a wide range of web-based participation technologies (e.g., blogs, wikis, discussion groups, social networking, podcasts, RSS, tagging, photos, videos, mapping, and the like). Any content can have attributes that make it appear as any type of content. With this uniform content architecture, all user-generated content is treated as a post (or, more generally, a submission), and there is no need for a participant to author multiple entries for separate uses. Preferably, all content created or otherwise associated with a particular author is intrinsically tied or “linked” to the author via the author's profile. Thus, at each point of participation, the content is associated with the individual, which allows the system to build and maintain a rich “living” profile for each community member. Using this approach, the system can build and enable querying of so-called “social aggregations,” which are data sets that describe a relationship among one or more author attributes and one or more content attributes.

A system and method are provided for extracting a set of data from a system user descriptive of the complete health snapshot of the user's to interact with a database of numerous other users so as to generate a cluster of similar user's exhibiting a similar (within some system defined distance metric) health snapshot. The system guides the user to present his or her data via a complex questionnaire based upon a novel descriptive taxonomy, based upon the principles of "cyberhealth" as opposed to the standard medical "disease oriented" singular cause and effect model. The system generates the cluster of similar users, analyzes the cluster to obtain a ranked list of possible remedies or therapies to assist the user in dealing with health problems. The system further creates a computer networked virtual community of users with common health problems / interests, facilitates online chat, discussion groups, and the trading of health information. Additionally, the system provides listings of and links to health care providers and medical testing laboratories who are able to assist users of the system.

The present invention includes a system and method for generating a discussion in a social network based on visual search results. A mixed media reality (MMR) engine receives images from a user device and identifies matching MMR objects. A social network application determines whether a discussion group that is related to metadata associated with the images from user devices are related to a discussion group. If the discussion group does not yet exist, the social network application generates the discussion group and provides the user devices with information about the discussion group.

A comprehensive, convenient, cost-effective, and intuitive mechanism for individuals to create, manage, and modify customized portfolios of assets and liabilities based on the individual's investment preferences, weighting schemes, risk tolerance, and timeframe. The mechanism includes a server (64) that has data storage (66) for the individual's data. The individual input (60) is used in asset and liability selections (62). There are investment tools (62) to educate individuals on investing concepts, terms, definitions, and strategies. Individuals, through an on-line discussion group, can discuss their investing questions with knowledgeable investors and access other individuals' investment related issues and comments. Investing can include fractional shares and odd lots. The system associated with the mechanism aggregates and nets the trading orders to reduce transactional costs.

Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating and maintaining personal data, such as an address book, a financial portfolio, a discussion groups or blogs book, or other types of personal data stores, based on a person's structured search data and / or usage data (e.g., browsing) and / or other sources of personal data (e.g., emails the user receives). Related metadata can also be used in the generating and / or maintaining of the personal data. Dynamic personal data ranking and / or autocomplete functions are also provided, which can be used in conjunction with the automatic generation and maintenance of the user's personal data, to further ease the user's burden in managing and / or handling such data.

System and method for removing threads from discussion groups based on ratings of the individual posts within the thread. If a user takes the time to rate a post positively, then the post (and the thread) is considered to be useful to the entire community and should not be deleted. To rate the post, a window is displayed to the user whenever the post is open and queries the user whether the post is useful. A positive rating resets a delete date associated with the post. If there is not positive rating of a post, the thread may be considered useful if the originator of a post marks the post as being answered, in which case delete clock is reset. If however, none of the posts within the thread are rated positively, then the thread is considered not be useful and deleted.

A URL sharing utility and social network facilitates group discussions about shared links. Unlike conventional applications, this service enables live discussions about specific URLs, so people who join the discussion already share an interest in a particular topic. The sharing mechanism preferably enables many people around the world to see the discussion topic and join if they are interested. Sharing a URL together with a second URL reserved for a live discussion of the first URL preferably enables users to promote the discussion in a less socially risky way. A one-to-one correspondence between one URL and a second, predictable network address for the discussion of the original URL allows everyone who shares an interest in a URL to be funneled into a single discussion about that URL. Users preferably specify explicit social and professional networking policies so that every discussion with others carries the promise of a beneficial, lasting connection.

The invention discloses a method for introducing the history records to the specified member of discussion group, this group includes several members formed by the server and several client terminals respectively, including the following steps: (a) after the discussion group member triggers the push command of history record, acquire the specified time interval and specified member identifier from the local saving unit through the push module of history record; (b) the history record push module acquires the discussion group communication information history record within the specified time interval from the local saving unit of current member and send to the specified member from the server. The invention still discloses a system for pushing the history record to the specified member in the corresponding discussion group. The invention may avoid the complicated operation for the copy of discussion group history record to discussion group interaction window through acquire the communication information history record from the local saved module and push to the specified member.

A system and method are provided for extracting a set of data from a system user descriptive of the complete health snapshot of the user's to interact with a database of numerous other users so as to generate a cluster of similar user's exhibiting a similar (within some system defined distance metric) health snapshot. The system guides the user to present his or her data via a complex questionnaire based upon a novel descriptive taxonomy, based upon the principles of “cyberhealth” as opposed to the standard medical “disease oriented” singular cause and effect model. The system generates the cluster of similar users, analyzes the cluster to obtain a ranked list of possible remedies or therapies to assist the user in dealing with health problems. The system further creates a computer networked virtual community of users with common health problems / interests, facilitates online chat, discussion groups, and the trading of health information. Additionally, the system provides listings of and links to health care providers and medical testing laboratories who are able to assist users of the system.

The method includes following procedures: server receives request with carried ID of member in network chat room (NCR) for creating discussion group; server assigns discussion group ID for group as well as saves ID of member in network chat room, and coincidence relation between discussion group ID and IDs of members in NCR; server receives speech request with carried discussion group ID, obtains ID of member in NCR corresponding to discussion group ID, and forwards speech request to client end corresponding to ID of member in NCR. The invention also discloses the server. The invention realizes that multiple members get together to intercommunicate without interference in NCR.

The invention discloses a realizing method of virtual discussion group in the group communication system, which comprises the following steps: the discussion group sponsor builds discussion group requirement, which sends the requirement and member information to server end; the server end affirms outer correlated person, who hopes to join in the discussion group; the group server adds outer correlated person in the discussion group sponsor temporarily; the group server builds virtual discussion group with member information in the group.

One embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for providing flexible message-based communications between two or more individuals logically interconnected over a centralized messaging infrastructure. A voice message server interfaces to a plurality of personal communication devices (PCDs) over a wireless data network. Each PCD includes an “Attention” button that alerts the PCD to begin processing voice messages. Voice messages are forwarded to the voice message server and are queued, stored and played to the user of the receiving PCD. Each user must be signed on in a voice messaging session and can participate in one or more moderatable and simultaneous discussion groups.

The invention relates to the field of instant communications technology, which specifically discloses a method for creating / dispatching a first discussion group and a related device, an instant communications system; wherein, the method for creating the discussion group includes the following steps: a trigger message requesting creation of the first discussion group is received; a preset creation interface of the discussion group is displayed, and a message of the first discussion group input by a first user is obtained through the creation interface of the discussion group; the first discussion group corresponding to the message of the first discussion group is displayed on a group communication interface. Utilizing the technical proposal provided by the invention, users can search out the information requested more rapidly, thus bringing more user experience.

A system and corresponding methods for recommending a discussion group as an appropriate place to post a message are provided. In one embodiment, the system searches a plurality of existing posts to identify the posts that are similar to a subject of a user's message. The system identifies the discussion groups that contain the identified posts and selects one of the identified discussion groups to recommend as an appropriate discussion group to post the user's message.

The disclosure includes a system and method for identifying discussion groups related to a video that a user would find to be interesting. A recognition application receives a captured image from a user, identifies an indexed image that matches the captured image, identifies a timestamp for the indexed image, determines a segment in the video that encompasses the timestamp, determines whether the user is interested in the segment of the video based on the timestamp and a user profile and provides suggested discussion groups to the user that are ranked based on what the user is interested in.

The present invention includes a system and method for generating a discussion in a social network based on visual search results. A mixed media reality (MMR) engine receives images from a user device and identifies matching MMR objects. A social network application determines whether a discussion group that is related to metadata associated with the images from user devices are related to a discussion group. If the discussion group does not yet exist, the social network application generates the discussion group and provides the user devices with information about the discussion group.

The invention discloses a discussion group creating method, and a communication method, a server and a system based on a discussion group, and belongs to the technical field of computer networks. The discussion group creating method includes receiving a discussion group creating request which comprises a member list of the discussion group; generating a logo for the discussion group; storing a corresponding relation between the logo and the member list of the discussion group; and combining the logo and the member list of the discussion group to a data packet, sending the packet to a client of the discussion group members so that the client can generate and present discussion group items after receiving the data packet successfully. According to the discussion group creating method, and the communication method, the server and the system based on the discussion group, the discussion group members can start conversation according to the discussion group items presented by the client, the number of information interaction between the server and the client is reduced, and the discussion group creating efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses a method for establishing discussion group in group communication system, comprising the steps of: adding members in plural groups to list of members to establish discussion group; establishing a discussion group comprising an establisher and members in the list having friend relation with the establisher; adding the members in the list having no friend relation with the establisher to the discussion group according to their groups. And it also discloses a group communication system. And it makes it possible to establish a discussion group in multi-group member mode.