Invite system for mobile applications

• US 10,219,131 B1
• Filed: 06/09/2014
• Issued: 02/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GameTime Inc.
• Original Assignee: GameTime Inc.
• Inventors: Griffith, Brad
• Primary Examiner(s): Hu, Jinsong
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yi, Alexander J
• Application Number:
  US14/300,153
• Time in Patent Office: 1,723 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

An invite aggregation, storage and optimization system preserves/enhances users'"'"' social capital by increasing the probability of user invite acceptance over a set of potential users given a set of current users.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium in a machine system, comprising:

instructions to collect from a mobile device personal connection links and records for a user of the mobile device;

instructions to weigh the personal connection links and records by metrics of strength inherent in the personal connection links and records to form weights;

instructions to apply the weights to form invitations to join a mobile device application of the mobile device of the user, and to communicate the invitations from the mobile device to recipient devices; and

instructions to operate a feedback loop to increase the weights for invitees who have not accepted the invitation and who have similar correlation vectors to correlation vectors of invitees communicating acceptance of the invitations, wherein the correlation vectors are a measure of similarity between the invitees and the feedback loop increases the weights as a result of receipt by the mobile device of the acceptance of the invitations from the recipient devices.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium in the system of claim 1, further comprising:

instructions to access a social media web site for a social graph and to apply data from the social graph to form the invitations.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium in the system of claim 1, further comprising:

aggregation instructions configured to aggregate and store correlations between the invitations and responses to the invitations.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium in the system of claim 1, further comprising:

the weights influenced by the feedback loop from an aggregator.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium in the system of claim 1, further comprising:

the weights influenced by presence of the invitees in a speed dial memory configuration.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium in the system of claim 1, further comprising:

the weights influenced by a frequency or duration of presence of the invitees in call logs of the mobile device.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium in the system of claim 1, further comprising:

the weights influenced by presence of the invitees in SMS logs of the mobile device.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium in the system of claim 1, further comprising:

the weights influenced by presence of the invitees in email of the mobile device.

9. A process comprising:

collecting from a mobile device personal connection links and records for a user of the mobile device;

weighing the personal connection links and records by metrics of strength inherent in the personal connection links and records to form weights;

applying the weights to form invitations to recipient devices to join a mobile device application of the mobile device of the user;

communicating the invitations as signals over a machine data network;

detecting return signals from the machine data network indicative of responses to the invitations from the recipient devices; and

applying the responses to the invitations from the recipient devices by the mobile device to operate a feedback loop on the mobile device to increase the weights for invitees who have not accepted the invitation, and

the invitees who have not accepted the invitation having similar correlation vectors to correlation vectors of invitees communicating acceptance of the invitations from the recipient devices, wherein the correlation vectors are a measure of similarity between the invitees.

10. The process of claim 9, further comprising:

extracting a social graph for a sender of the invitations from a social media web site and applying data from the social graph to form the invitations.

11. The process of claim 9, further comprising:

aggregating and storing in a machine database correlations between the invitations and responses to the invitations.

12. The process of claim 9, further comprising:

the weights influenced by the feedback loop from an aggregator.

13. The process of claim 9, further comprising:

the weights influenced by presence of the invitees in a speed dial memory configuration.

14. The process of claim 9, further comprising:

the weights influenced by a frequency or duration of presence of the invitees in call logs of the mobile device.

15. The process of claim 9, further comprising:

the weights influenced by presence of the invitees in SMS logs of the mobile device.

16. The process of claim 9, further comprising:

the weights influenced by presence of the invitees in email of the mobile device.