Contextual persona management in a communication medium to enhance relationship based interaction

• US 20080172461A1
• Filed: 01/12/2007
• Published: 07/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nthid Networks Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Nthid Networks Incorporated
• Inventors: Srinivasan, S., Thattai, Balaji T.
• Application Number:
  US11/653,164
• Publication Number:
  US 20080172461A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]

Abstract

A method, system and apparatus of contextual persona management in a communication medium to enhanced relationship based interaction are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a communication system includes creating a persona profile having contacts of a user in a specific context of expression generating in the persona profile, representations of contacts and interest groups between the user and the contacts shifting a pane between the persona profile and other persona profiles while maintaining a relationship between the user and a particular contact which is independent of the persona profile and the other persona profiles. In addition, the method may include juggling between different contracts in each of the persona profiles based on at least one of a behavior of the user. The method may also include providing the feedback ratings through intelligence gathered from personal representation of the user to other users.

Claims

1. A method of a communication system, comprising:

creating a persona profile having contacts of a user in a specific context of expression;

generating in the persona profile, representations of contacts and interest groups between the user and the contacts; and

shifting a pane between the persona profile and other persona profiles while maintaining a relationship between the user and a particular contact which is independent of the persona profile and the other persona profiles.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising juggling between different contacts in each of the persona profiles based on at least one of a behavior of the user and a feedback rating provided of the user by other parties.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising providing the feedback ratings through intelligence gathered from personal representation of the user to other users, perception of other users, behavior analysis of the user and linked other users through a relationship behavior compounding algorithm, and collective contact rating of peers.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising enabling facets through the feedback ratings that are created through implicit and explicit techniques based on at least one of trust, affinity, and propensity of interaction and in which multiple facets coexist in each persona profile and which develop a set of rankings of the user with other users through each of the facets.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising applying a temporal aspect to each of the facets based on the propensity that is at least one of the user determined and automatically determined through a usage pattern mapping of the user with facets associated with the user to enable a time based priority ranking of the particular contact with other contacts.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising automatically assigning a set of overridable specialized facets based on the behavior of the user including a family facet having a family relationship constructor, a work facet having an organization chart constructor, and a social facet having an activity classifier to enable the user to manifest specialized facets in context of a particular scenario of communications.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating a life map of the user in which differing activities and behaviors of the user are simultaneously expressed in an electronic environment.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising organizing the life map around at least one common marker selected between at least one of people communications, events, groups, places, messages, money, and content including music, books, and news feeds.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising expressing a faceted and fragmented identity of the user through each of the persona profiles in which a context is provided to each social interaction of the user with other users.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising organizing each of the specific contacts through semantics including contact introduced by person/entity>

, met at <

show name>

, works at <

company name>

, and interests include <

interest name>

.

11. The method of claim 10 in which a different persona profile is expressed based on individual relationship semantics.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising classifying the persona profiles as at least one of an invisible persona profile, a confidential persona profile, and a public persona profile, in which the invisible persona profile is accessible only by the user after applying a vault key that enables an invisible relationship in the invisible persona profile and invisible contacts and invisible groups are made visible only when the vault key is applied.

13. The method of claim 12 in which the confidential persona profile includes relationships with groups in which communication between the user and other users are restricted to specific groups of trusted users who have a contextual relationship with the user, and in which the public profile includes relationships that are sharable with any known and unknown parties in the communications system.

14. A communications system comprising:

a network;

a plurality of content modules each having an embedded communication module to manage relationships between a user and other users of each of the plurality of the content modules; and

the management module to communicate through the network with the plurality of the content modules and to classify relationships in each of the content modules as having at least one of an invisible communication profile, a confidential communication profile, and a public communication profile based on a behavior of the user associated with each of the plurality of the content modules.

15. The communications system of claim 14 further comprising a feedback module of the management module to analyze intelligence gathered from personal representation of the user to other users, perception of other users, behavior analysis of the user and linked other users through a relationship behavior compounding algorithm, and collective contact rating of peers to determine an order of display of a unitary user profile in the management module of each of groups in the embedded communication module.

16. The communications system of claim 15 wherein the feedback module to automatically assigning a set of overridable specialized facets based on the behavior of the user including a family facet having a family relationship constructor, a work facet having an organization chart constructor, and a social facet having an activity classifier to enable the user to manifest specialized facets in context of a particular scenario of communications.

17. The communications system of claim 16 further comprising a vault module in which the invisible communication profile is viewable simultaneously with the confidential communication profile and the public communication profile through a tiered authentication technique enabled through the management module.

18. A method of a content module, comprising:

expressing of a persona of a user in the content module through a communication of the user with other parties;

associating with the persona specific contacts and groups associated with the user'"'"'s behaviors, activities, and preferences in the content module; and

sharing the persona with the management module that generates relationships of the user across a plurality of the content modules through a unified view in which each relationship is independent of the persona currently activated and which is common across past, current, and future content modules.

19. The method of claim 18 further comprising providing a feedback rating through intelligence gathered from personal representation of the user to other users, perception of other users, behavior analysis of the user and linked other users through a relationship behavior compounding algorithm, and collective contact rating of peers.

20. The method claim 18 in a form of a machine-readable medium embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the method of claim 18.