System And Method For Facilitating Network Connectivity Based On User Characteristics
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1. A computer system for facilitating user connectivity in a computer network, comprising:
- an attention manager configured to monitor actions exhibited by a user in the computer network and to generate attention data that is indicative of current user attention, the attention data based on the monitored actions exhibited by the user;
an identity manager configured to generate and evaluate user preference data indicative of user interests and the attention data and generate user profile data for the user based on the user preference data and the attention data, the user profile data indicative of user interests, and further configured to adaptively update the user preference data in response to changes in user interests; and
an introduction manager configured to receive the user profile data of the user and user profile data related to other users and evaluate the user profile data of the user and the user profile data related to other users and provide a bilaterally secure introduction with one or more other users based on the evaluation.
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Abstract
A computer system for facilitating user connectivity in a computer network includes an attention manager, an identity manager, and an introduction manager. The attention manager generates data indicative of the current interests of the user. The identity manager manages data indicative of the interests of the user. The introduction manager provides a proactive contact, content, or commerce data recommendation for the dynamic introduction of contact, content, or commerce data to the user, and may also provide bilaterally secure introductions with other users.
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68 Claims
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1. A computer system for facilitating user connectivity in a computer network, comprising:
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an attention manager configured to monitor actions exhibited by a user in the computer network and to generate attention data that is indicative of current user attention, the attention data based on the monitored actions exhibited by the user;
an identity manager configured to generate and evaluate user preference data indicative of user interests and the attention data and generate user profile data for the user based on the user preference data and the attention data, the user profile data indicative of user interests, and further configured to adaptively update the user preference data in response to changes in user interests; and
an introduction manager configured to receive the user profile data of the user and user profile data related to other users and evaluate the user profile data of the user and the user profile data related to other users and provide a bilaterally secure introduction with one or more other users based on the evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer implemented method of facilitating user connectivity in a computer network, comprising:
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monitoring actions exhibited by a user in the computer network;
generating attention data based on the monitored actions, the attention data indicative of current user attention;
evaluating user preference data indicative of user interests and the attention data;
generating user profile data for the user based on the user preference data and the attention data, the user profile data indicative of user interests;
adaptively updating the user preference data in response to changes in user interests;
evaluating the user profile data of the user and user profile data related to other users; and
providing a bilaterally secure introduction with one or more other users based on the evaluation of the user profile data of the user and user profile data related to other users. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A computer system for facilitating user connectivity in a computer network, comprising:
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means for monitoring actions exhibited by a user in the computer network;
means for generating attention data based on the monitored actions, the attention data indicative of current user attention;
means for evaluating user preference data indicative of user interests and the attention data;
means for generating user profile data for the user based on the attention data, the user profile data indicative of user interests;
means for adaptively updating the user preference data in response to changes in user interests;
means for evaluating the user profile data of the user and user profile data related to other users; and
means for providing a bilaterally secure introduction with one or more other users based on the evaluation of the user profile data of the user and user profile data related to other users.
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25. A computer system for facilitating the providing of content to one or more users in a computer network, comprising:
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an identity manager configured to monitor actions indicative of user interests exhibited by a plurality of users in the computer network and to generate corresponding user profiles for the plurality of users based on the evaluation of the monitored actions, the user profiles indicative of user interests for the plurality of users, and further configured to evaluate the user profiles to identify highly correlated interests among the plurality of users; and
an introduction manager configured to receive a user profile of a user and evaluate the user profile against the identified highly correlated interests among the plurality of users and generate a proactive contact, content, or commerce data recommendation for the dynamic introduction of contact, content, or commerce data to the user based on the evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A computer-implemented method for facilitating the providing of contact, content, or commerce data to one or more users in a computer network, comprising:
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monitoring actions indicative of user interests exhibited by a plurality of users in the computer network;
generating corresponding user profiles for the plurality of users based on the monitored actions;
evaluating the user profiles to identify highly correlated interests among the plurality of users;
evaluating the user profile of a user against the identified highly correlated interests among the plurality of users; and
generating a proactive contact, content, or commerce data recommendation for the dynamic introduction of contact, content, or commerce data to the user based on the evaluation. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A computer-implemented system for facilitating the providing of contact, content, or commerce data to one or more users in a computer network, comprising:
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means for monitoring actions indicative of user interests exhibited by a plurality of users in the computer network;
means for generating corresponding user profiles for the plurality of users based on the evaluation of the monitored actions;
means for evaluating the user profiles to identify highly correlated interests among the plurality of users;
means for evaluating the user profile of a user against the identified highly correlated interests among the plurality of users; and
means for generating a proactive contact, content, or commerce data recommendation for the dynamic introduction of contact, content, or commerce data to the user based on the evaluation.
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48. A computer system for facilitating user connectivity in a computer network, comprising:
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an attention manager configured to monitor actions exhibited by a user in the computer network and to generate attention data that is indicative of current user attention, the attention data based on the monitored actions exhibited by the user;
an identity manager configured to evaluate user preference data indicative of user interests and the attention data and generate user profile data for the user based on the user preference data and the attention data, the user profile data indicative of user interests, and further configured to adaptively update the user preference data in response to changes in user interests; and
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a plurality of interest space managers, each interest space manager configured to receive the user profile data for a plurality of users and access interest subsets of the user profile data, the access to the interest subsets for each interest space manager based on a predefined interest associated with the interest space manager. - View Dependent Claims (49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59)
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60. A computer-implemented method of facilitating user connectivity in a computer network, comprising:
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monitoring actions exhibited by a user in the computer network;
generating attention data that is indicative of current user attention, the attention data based on the monitored actions exhibited by the user;
evaluating user preference data indicative of user interests and the attention data;
generating user profile data indicative of user interests of the user based on the user preference data and the attention data, the user profile data indicative of user interests;
adaptively updating the user preference data in response to changes in user interests;
defining a plurality of interest spaces;
associating a corresponding predefined interest with each interest space; and
associating interest subsets of the user profile data with each corresponding interest space based on the corresponding predefined interests. - View Dependent Claims (61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67)
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68. A system for facilitating user connectivity in a computer network, comprising:
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means for monitoring actions exhibited by a user in the computer network;
means for generating attention data that is indicative of current user attention, the attention data based on the monitored actions exhibited by the user;
means for evaluating user preference data indicative of user interests and the attention data;
means for generating user profile data indicative of user interests of the user based on user preference data and the attention data, the user profile data indicative of user interests;
means for adaptively updating the user preference data in response to changes in user interests;
means for defining a plurality of interest spaces;
means for associating a corresponding predefined interest with each interest space; and
means for associating interest subsets of the user profile data with each corresponding interest space based on the corresponding predefined interests.
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