System and method for publishing a person's affinities
First Claim
1. A method for publishing information associated with a user, wherein the information comprises a category and an affinity value associated with the category, comprising the steps of:
- determining whether an affinity publication policy indicates that the information should not be published without first receiving permission from the user to publish the information; and
transmitting to the user a message that requests the user to submit a response that indicates whether or not the user wishes to have the information published if it is determined that the affinity publication policy indicates that the information should not be published without first receiving permission from the user.
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Abstract
A system and method to control the review and publication of affinities. The system and method can be tailored to provide flexibility in the ways that affinity publication is controlled, thereby accommodating different cultural and legal constraints on information access. In one aspect, the system and method allows a person who is the subject of a proposed affinities to review the affinity and then approve or deny publication of the affinity before the affinity is made known to others, thus avoiding inappropriate publication. Advantageously, the system and method enable the person to review the affinity in a context that increases the likelihood that only accurate affinities will be published.
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50 Claims
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1. A method for publishing information associated with a user, wherein the information comprises a category and an affinity value associated with the category, comprising the steps of:
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determining whether an affinity publication policy indicates that the information should not be published without first receiving permission from the user to publish the information; and
transmitting to the user a message that requests the user to submit a response that indicates whether or not the user wishes to have the information published if it is determined that the affinity publication policy indicates that the information should not be published without first receiving permission from the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 50)
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23. A system for discovering and publishing a user'"'"'s affinities, comprising:
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affinity discovery module that function to discover the user'"'"'s affinities;
an affinity publication policy; and
affinity publishing means for publishing the discovered affinities, wherein the affinity publishing means publishes the discovered affinities in accordance with the affinity publication policy. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A computer program product for publishing information associated with a user, wherein the information comprises a category and an affinity value associated with the category, the computer program product being embodied in a computer readable medium and comprising computer instructions for:
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determining whether an affinity publication policy indicates that the information should not be published without first receiving permission from the user to publish the information; and
transmitting to the user a message that requests the user to submit a response that indicates whether or not the user wishes to have the information published if it is determined that the affinity publication policy indicates that the information should not be published without first receiving permission from the user. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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