Adaptive Social and Process Network Systems
First Claim
1. An adaptive social network system, comprising:
- a structural aspect comprising a plurality of objects and at least one relationship between a first object and a second object;
a representation of one or more users of the system as one or more objects;
a usage aspect, comprising captured usage behaviors, wherein the usage behaviors are associated with one or more users;
a function to determine an affinity between a first object and a second object based, at least in part, on a plurality of usage behaviors associated with the one or more users corresponding to a plurality of usage behavior categories; and
a function to generate a social network representation, wherein the social network representation comprises a plurality of users represented as objects and at least one affinity between a representation of a first user as an object and a representation of a second user as an object.
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Abstract
An adaptive system applied to social network and process network applications is disclosed. These adaptive social networking and tagging systems, and adaptive process network systems, apply algorithms for monitoring user usage behaviors across a plurality of usage behavior categories associated with a computer-based system, and generating recommendations based on inferences on user preferences and interests based, at least in part, on usage behaviors. Additional functions for effectively and efficiently managing social and process networks, such as social network measurement and analysis features, community tagging functions, and process network recombination functions are also described.
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20 Claims
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1. An adaptive social network system, comprising:
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a structural aspect comprising a plurality of objects and at least one relationship between a first object and a second object;
a representation of one or more users of the system as one or more objects;
a usage aspect, comprising captured usage behaviors, wherein the usage behaviors are associated with one or more users;
a function to determine an affinity between a first object and a second object based, at least in part, on a plurality of usage behaviors associated with the one or more users corresponding to a plurality of usage behavior categories; and
a function to generate a social network representation, wherein the social network representation comprises a plurality of users represented as objects and at least one affinity between a representation of a first user as an object and a representation of a second user as an object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An adaptive social tagging system, comprising:
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a structural aspect comprising a plurality of objects, and at least one relationship between a first object and a second object;
a usage aspect, comprising captured usage behaviors, wherein the usage behaviors are associated with one or more users and wherein at least one behavior is associated with a user tagging an object;
a function to generate an adaptive recommendation based, at least in part, on a plurality of usage behaviors associated with the one or more users, wherein at least one usage behavior is associated with a user tagging an object. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An adaptive process network system, comprising:
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a structural aspect comprising a fuzzy network structure, wherein the fuzzy network structure comprises a plurality of objects, wherein two objects of the plurality of objects have one or more relationships types, and one or more relationships associated with each relationship type, each relationship being uni-directional or bidirectional, and each direction of each relationship has an associated relationship indicator, wherein the relationship indicators associated with each direction are not necessarily the same magnitude;
a relationship representing a process sequence between a first object and a second object of the plurality of objects;
a usage aspect, comprising captured usage behaviors, wherein the usage behaviors are associated with one or more users; and
a function to enable users to navigate the process network. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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