System and method for automatic posting to mediums with a users current interests

• US 10,073,920 B1
• Filed: 03/14/2011
• Issued: 09/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: Ledet, David Gerard
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Te Y
• Application Number:
  US13/047,173
• Time in Patent Office: 2,738 Days
• Field of Search: 707899, 715810, 4554561, 709219, 369 301, 704251
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

An application can execute on one or more user devices that can scan the user'"'"'s local and remote activity related data, such as internet surfing history, emails, etc, to determine current interests of the user. The data can be processed into categories and categories that have a frequency of activity that satisfies a requirement threshold can be said to represent a current interest of the user. The data can be processed to extract content for a content update to a user account, such as an RMTS account or blogging account of which the user is a member. The content update can use published APIs for the respective mediums to automatically post the content update to the medium.

Claims

1. A method of automatically generating content entries for a user account comprising:

processing, by a processor of a user device, user input data of a user comprising at least one of local user data and remote user data to determine one or more current interests of the user;

automatically determining, by the user device, a user account relating to at least one of the current interests, wherein the user account is at least one of a blogging account, a real time messaging service account and a social media account, and wherein the user account is viewable by one or more secondary users;

automatically generating, by the user device, a new content entry pertaining to the current interest from the user input data, the new content entry comprising supplemental text information newly generated by the user device from the user input data; and

automatically posting, by the user device, the content entry including the supplemental text information to the user account;

wherein the steps of processing, automatically determining and automatically generating are performed by the user device without additional input from the user;

wherein determining one or more current interests comprises;

maintaining a permanent user interest file including a plurality of content categories that satisfy a time and frequency weighted threshold requirement at a first time;

generating a temporary user interest file by tokenizing the user input data having a timestamp later than first time to determine a plurality of temporary content categories;

merging the temporary user interest file with the permanent user interest file based on referencing a historical topic data file;

updating the permanent user interest file by applying the weighted threshold requirement to remove content categories from the permanent user interest file that no longer satisfy the time and frequency weighted threshold requirement and adding content categories that do satisfy the time and frequency weighted threshold requirement; and

obtaining the current interests from the updated permanent user interest file.

2. The method of claim 1 comprising generating a content entry for each content category that satisfies the threshold requirement.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein generating a content entry comprises extracting content for the content entry from the user data relating to the content category.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the content comprises a photo.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the user account comprises a user account of a real-time messaging service.

6. The method of claim 5 comprising:

determining one or more recipients to whom the user has communicated in respect of the current interest; and

generating a message to one or more of the recipients comprising the new content entry.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the user account comprises a blog.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein generating the content entry utilizes a published API for the medium associated with the user account.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein generating the content entry comprises:

determining a third party information source pertaining to the current interest;

accessing data from the third party information source; and

including accessed data from the third party information source in the content entry.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the accessed data is dependent on a time of the user data used in determining the current interest.

11. The method of claim 1 comprising:

performing a scan of the user data since a previous scan;

determining temporary interests since the previous scan; and

merging the temporary interests with previously determined current interests.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein determining a user account comprises determining a category of the current interest and determining the user account using the category.

13. A communications enabled device executing an application on at least one processor of the device, the application configured to:

maintain an association between one or more topics of interest of a user and one or more user accounts;

process, via the at least one processor without further input from the user, user input data of the user comprising at least one of local user data and remote user data to determine a current interest of the user;

determine, via the at least one processor without further input from the user, a user account associated with the current interest via a reference of the maintained association, wherein the user account is at least one of a blog account, a real time message service account and a social media account, and wherein the user account is viewable by one or more secondary users;

automatically generate without further input from the user, via the at least one processor, a new content entry pertaining to the current interest from the user input data, the new content entry comprising supplemental text information newly generated by the user device from the user input data; and

automatically provide, via the at least one processor, the content entry comprising the supplemental text information to the determined user account;

wherein the current interest being determined comprises;

a permanent user interest file being maintained including a plurality of content categories that satisfy a time and frequency weighted threshold requirement at a first time;

a temporary user interest file being generated via tokenization of the user input data that has a timestamp later than first time to determine a plurality of temporary content categories;

the temporary user interest file being merged with the permanent user interest file based on referencing a historical topic data file;

the permanent user interest file being updated via an application of the weighted threshold requirement to remove content categories from the permanent user interest file that no longer satisfy the time and frequency weighted threshold requirement and content categories being added that do satisfy the time and frequency weighted threshold requirement; and

the current interests being obtained from the updated permanent user interest file.

14. The device of claim 13 wherein the application is configured to maintain the association between one or more topics of interest of a user and one or more user accounts in at least one topic data file.

15. The device of claim 14 wherein the at least one topic data file stores an association between one or more topics and one or more external users and wherein the application is configured to:

determine a recipient of the content entry via a reference of the at least one topic data file; and

provide the content entry to the determined recipient through the determined user account.