Wiki groups of an online community
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- creating a profile of a unregistered user of an online community based on at least one of publicly available data and a registered user provided data;
automatically associating the unregistered user to a public group formed of matching interests identified through at least one of the publicly available data and as described by the registered user provided data with other registered users in the online community; and
processing a communication between registered users of the online community and the unregistered user.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus and system of wiki groups of an online community are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes creating a profile of a unregistered user of an online community based on a publicly available data and a registered user provided data, automatically associating the unregistered user to a public group formed of matching interests identified through the publicly available data and as described by the registered user provided data with other registered users in the online community, processing a communication between registered users of the online community and the unregistered user. The method may include associating an address data with the profile based on the publicly available data and an input of the registered user, processing a postage payment and a service payment provided by a member of the public group communicating with the unregistered user through a postal mail communication.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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creating a profile of a unregistered user of an online community based on at least one of publicly available data and a registered user provided data; automatically associating the unregistered user to a public group formed of matching interests identified through at least one of the publicly available data and as described by the registered user provided data with other registered users in the online community; and processing a communication between registered users of the online community and the unregistered user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system comprising:
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a grouping module to create associations between users and non-users of a social network and to facilitate communications between the users and the non-users based on a location based data of the non-users; and a wiki module to populate the location based data of the non-users until the non-users claim their profiles in the social network. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. A method comprising:
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providing in a public group both unregistered members and registered members, and in which any registered user creates the public group whether or not they are a member of the public group; transforming the public group into a private group when the registered user claims the public group; and removing certain unregistered members and certain registered members from the private group based on a request of the registered user who claims the public group. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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