Propagating and responding to announcements in an environment having pre-established social groups
First Claim
1. A method for communicating within an environment having pre-established social groups, comprising:
- creating an announcement by a member of a first-order social group, the member being referred to as an announcement-originating member;
associating the announcement with an identity of the announcement-originating member; and
propagating the announcement to at least other members of the first-order social group.
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Abstract
Strategies are described for propagating and responding to announcements within an environment having pre-established social groups, such as pre-established instant messenger social groups. More specifically, a member within a group can create an announcement, whereupon the announcement becomes associated with the member'"'"'s identity. The member can then propagate that announcement out as part of their identity to members within the member'"'"'s immediate social order group. If the member so authorizes, the announcement can also be propagated out to other social groups linked to the member'"'"'s immediate social group. A member within the immediate social group or one of the linked social groups can responds to the announcement. The use of pre-established social groups to transact announcement-related exchanges provides a level of trust not offered by conventional network-based messaging and merchandising services.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for communicating within an environment having pre-established social groups, comprising:
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creating an announcement by a member of a first-order social group, the member being referred to as an announcement-originating member;
associating the announcement with an identity of the announcement-originating member; and
propagating the announcement to at least other members of the first-order social group. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. Announcement-related functionality for communicating within an environment having pre-established social groups, comprising:
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an announcement creation module configured to;
(a) create an announcement by a member of a first-order social group, the member being referred to as an announcement-originating member; and
(b) associate the announcement with an identity of the announcement-originating member; and
an announcement propagation module configured to propagate the announcement to members of the first-order social group and/or members of linked social groups. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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19. The announcement-related functionality of claim, wherein the first-order social group comprises an instant messenger communication group.
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20. A system for communicating within an environment having pre-established social groups, comprising:
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a plurality of devices operated by members of a first-order social group;
a coupling mechanism for coupling the plurality of devices together; and
announcement-related functionality configured to;
(a) create an announcement by a member of a first-order social group, the member being referred to as an announcement-originating member;
(b) associate the announcement with an identity of the announcement-originating member; and
(c) propagate the announcement to other members of the first-order social group and/or members of linked social groups.
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