136 results about "Social media network" patented technology

A social media content management system coupled to a social media network includes database files and execution instructions to assemble, manage and transmit social media content. The database files store a feed content file, a social content management file, and management tables including a schedule file and an export content file. Execution instructions include a feed channel content system for receiving and storing feed content items in the feed content file. A selection subsystem is used for selecting and storing export content as social media posts in the social content management file. A scheduling subsystem enables a user to create and store schedules, to select a schedule and to merge the selected schedule with the stored content in the management file to form the export content file. An export system transmits the stored content as social media content posts to the social media network according to the selected schedule.

A method of providing virtual meeting environments for user controlled avatars. Each avatar is associated with user information from at least one social network (Facebook), and the user's profile picture and sex controls the general appearance of the avatars. The avatar's appearance can also be customized according to their user's social network relationships such as friends, friends of friends, or strangers. Various online virtual events, such as virtual parties, meeting rooms and the like may be created, and other social network users invited to participate by sending their avatars to the meeting environment. There the avatars may move about and interact with one another according to real-world rules, such as the rule that only avatars that are portrayed as physically being closely associated to each other in the virtual world may chat or interact, as well as exchange social network user information. Virtual environment search engines are also provided.

An interactive social media network is disclosed to provide asynchronous face-to-face conversations via video selfies. The selfies are recording using a user interface that fosters engagement with the viewer by limiting the distractions of recording. The conversations are structured into a user interface that allows navigation of conversational threads that enable numerous diverse individuals to be involved in the same conversation. The disclosure further provides an efficient mechanism to upload and distribute the selfie videos.

The present invention relates to system and method for authorizing a transaction using user data collected from third-party websites / applications / sources, such as social media networks. In operation, collected user data may be compared to a financial data or user data collected during a transaction to identify potential fraud and / or other discrepancies, confirming the identity of the user with a greater degree of accuracy and / or imposing purchase parameters.

A method is disclosed for analyzing information from social media websites and providing advertisements based on this information. Social media websites are analyzed to determine topics of conversation and, for particular users, areas of interest, levels of expertise, and areas of influence over other users. User information, content, and relationships may be analyzed across different social media websites to match users on different social media websites to a single actual person and thereby obtain additional information about that person. Advertisements may be created which are targeted to a very specific type of user, such as by targeting a particular interest, level of expertise, etc. Users of the social media websites may be qualified according to their interest, expertise, and area of influence and particular users may be chosen for advertisements based on these metrics. Advertisements may be presented to particular qualified users and not to general users.

Social media network environment for topics of information to impact social measurements, bringing generational awareness to improve community cultural and economic values. The network environment is a platform for sharing knowledge relating to fashion media, model media, and dress code media “FMDC” for human observations. The platform extracts database information and analyzes queried occurrences to identify stored patterns for communications through a centralized system, providing substance of things hoped for, revealing the evidence of things not commonly seen, which is CHANGE. CHANGE is embraced for sustainable cultural independence, for by CHANGE the society receives good reports that things which are seen were not spiritually made of things which do appear, but are made through creative minds and discoveries that may lead to economic growth, not as a means of inquiry, but rather as a dimension of social sustainability to gracefully improve corporate and community cultural interest through economic vision.

Social media network environment for topics of information to impact social measurements, bringing generational awareness to improve community cultural and economic values. The network environment is a platform for sharing knowledge relating to fashion media, model media, and dress code media “FMDC” for human observations. The platform extracts database information and analyzes queried occurrences to identify stored patterns for communications through a centralized system, providing substance of things hoped for, revealing the evidence of things not commonly seen, which is CHANGE. CHANGE is embraced for sustainable cultural independence, for by CHANGE the society receives good reports that things which are seen were not spiritually made of things which do appear, but are made through creative minds and discoveries that may lead to economic growth, not as a means of inquiry, but rather as a dimension of social sustainability to gracefully improve corporate and community cultural interest through economic vision.

The present invention relates to system and method for authorizing a financial transaction using user-data collected from third party websites, such as Social Media Networks. In operation, collected user-data may be compared to a financial-data collected during a financial transaction to identify potential fraud and / or other discrepancies, confirming the identity of the user with a greater degree of accuracy.

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.

A method of distributing content over multiple social media networks and providing analysis based thereon is disclosed herein. Additionally, an apparatus for carrying out the method are disclosed. In one embodiment the apparatus includes: (1) a content publisher configured to automatically distribute content over multiple social media networks according to a delivery schedule; and (2) an action analyzer configured to monitor, on at least one of the social media networks, reaction to the content that has been distributed and generate a stimulus report based on the reaction according to a selectable format.

The embodiments herein provide a system and method for retrieving and presenting concept centric information in social media network that allows a user to search, read, express, and debate on opinions on a particular concept. The system comprises an input module for receiving an input query, a visualization module for visualizing the retrieved concept centric opinions, a topic mining module for mining a semantically related topics, a tweets tracking module for tracking influential tweets, an interesting comments searching module for searching comments posted by interested users from social media networks, public forums, blogs and other community portals, a posted comments counting module for calculating a total number of posts processed, a comments posting module for allowing users to post comments, a BUZZ words display module for displaying context words, and a new posts display module for displaying new post related to the user input query.

A method and apparatus for real time processing for mediating Social Media posts to a Social Media Network wherein a Semantic Filter Algorithm is provided. The Semantic Filter Algorithm is an application of Shannon's Entropy algorithm that functions to assess comparative contextual relationships between linguistic signifiers in a multiple of databases. Social Media posts are received by the Social Media Network and are automatically directed to Semantic filtering in multi-passes through the Semantic Filter Algorithm. The posts are automatically processed and an output is generated. Responsive to the output the posts are automatically allocated according to category and prioritized. Metatags are attached to the posts to control further processing regarding the various categories.

Systems, methods and techniques for managing data sets are described. In particular, systems and methods for modeling, representing, acquiring and disseminating large data sets and data files using metadata are described. The large data sets may include geospatial information. The metadata may be extracted from the data or provided separately. Such metadata may be used to represent the underlying data so as to avoid unnecessary and / or unwanted transfer, exposure or manipulation of the underlying data. The metadata may be represented in a static or dynamic fashion, and may be shared via, for example, social media networks and the like.

An interactive media recording and broadcasting system includes an interactive digital media recording and broadcasting kiosk for interacting, recording and broadcasting media, a web server for storing and serving data, an advertising platform, and a social media network website.

The invention provides a method for automatically screening influential users on social media networks. The method comprises the following steps of: modeling for users, interested objects and interaction relationship between the users and the interested objects by a hypergraph model; automatically learning to obtain a connotative interest topic by using a regularization topic probability model of hypergraph restraints and taking the similarity relationship between the content information and the content information of the interested objects as restraints; and performing topic influence sorting on each user and interest object, propagating topic influence by using a similarity propagation model, the users and the interest objects on the hypergraph and the hyperedge between the users and the interest objects until to reaching a steady state, and then sorting to obtain the influential users under specific topics. By the method, the distribution of the user influence in the social media network can be truly and accurately reflected.

Login credentials for at least one website, such as a social networking website, are received from a user purporting to act on behalf of an entity, for example, in the context of registering the entity with a system for electronic bill payment. Social data relating to the entity is retrieved from the websites using the login credentials. The social data comprises a plurality of social connections, each reflecting a respective relationship between the entity and a respective third party. A plurality of relevant social connections comprising at least a subset of the plurality of social connections is determined, each social connection of the plurality of relevant social connections reflecting a relationship to a respective third party that is deemed to be reliable. A reliability rating of the entity is then determined based on the plurality of relevant social connections.

A system and method of detecting a source of a rumor in a social media network is disclosed. The social media network includes a plurality of node clusters, each of the plurality of nodes therein having at least one edge connection to a corresponding number of different nodes in the same cluster. The system identifies a plurality of gateway nodes, each having at least one weak tie connection with a corresponding gateway node from a different node cluster; selects a subset of gateway nodes as sensors to measure arrival times of a rumor; and selects a candidate node cluster based on these arrival times. From there, the system selects a set of nodes in the candidate cluster to measure arrival times of a rumor from a source node, and selects a candidate node from the candidate cluster as having a high probability of being the source node.

A combination social media dashboard aggregator, social media website network, and monetized advertisement marketplace. A private user account is synchronized with a plurality of social media accounts, wherein a news feed from each of the plurality of social media accounts is retrieved. The news feed for each of the plurality of social media accounts is then aggregated into an aggregate social feed, while a social tab is generated for the news feed of each of the plurality of social media accounts. Through the private user account, a user can also post social content to selected social media accounts. Distribution parameters can also be set for the social content, dictating the date and time the social content is to be posted. The user can choose a selected advertisement to be displayed on a homepage dashboard, profile, or group page of the social network. An advertisement input action monetizes the selected advertisement.

A method and system for secure automated document registration with social media. A secure cloud transformed electronic document is created on an application on a target network device from an original electronic document. The original electronic document is electronic text, audio, video or pictures from a social media network or from a telecommunications network. The secure cloud transformed electronic document is made viewable via the target network device and other target devices from anywhere on a cloud communications network or on a social media network without the ability to tamper with the information within the secure cloud transformed electronic document. This provides an automatic secure electronic document registration system on the cloud communications network and the social media network.

A system may validate customer complaints about products. The system may include a computer data processing system configured to: query a computer system for social media postings made in a social media network system about the products; determine how widespread each complaint is based on the results of the query; and store information indicative of the determination.

Systems and methods for the use of social media in patent portfolio management are proposed. In one example embodiment, a method includes maintaining or accessing, by a computer processor, a database including data relating to patent applications and detecting the grant or publication of a patent application in the database. The method further includes creating, in response to the detection, in a social media network, a fan page including data relating to the granted or published patent application. The owner of the granted or published patent is identified in the social media network and invited to be a fan of the fan page.

A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to present media content on a social media network. Live streaming data is received from multiple data sources. The data is enriched with meta information using internal systems via application programming interfaces (APIs). The live streamed data is transformed and transmitted, based on the meta information, to one or more users on a social media network.

Systems and methods for utility management using social network data are provided. A social media analysis system filters social media posts of various social media networks to ascertain social media posts relevant to a utility network and determine if a utility network event has occurred based on the social media posts. Additionally, the social media analysis system associates relevant social media posts with locations on the utility network.

Described herein are methods and systems allowing a merchant to market its brands, products and / or services through its customers' social network platforms. In particular, a computerized advertising platform generates and tracks social network activities of participating customers in exchange of honoring related marketing incentives. Using this platform, a merchant can submit bargain items, and in exchange for receiving a bargain item, a customer authorizes an echo message regarding the merchant and bargain item to be posted on his or her social network account(s).

A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a plurality of operating commands for controlling a first presentation of media content by a first media processor device at a first display device to generate a first viewing experience and transmitting the playback file to a second media processor device via a first network, where a second presentation of the media content by the second media processor device at a second display device according to the plurality of operating commands of the playback file recreates the first viewing experience at the second display device and where the first and second media processor devices are members of the first network based upon common membership in a social media network by a first subscriber associated with the first media processor device and a second subscriber associated with the second media processor device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A system and method for conducting revenue-generating transactions by creation and dissemination of a pooled profit-sharing incentive among users of a social network or other online community.

A social media campaign system is described that can quickly and efficiently develop, manage and / or coordinate several different marketing and / or sales campaigns on numerous social media outlets. The system enables the user to upload (especially on a “bulk” basis), schedule and release “tweets” or other content in a highly quick and efficient manner. The user can create, upload, schedule and broadcast a large number of individual marketing and / or sales campaigns on a large number of different social media outlets or networks that has heretofore been too difficult, laborious and time consuming to accomplish with conventional means.