Method and Apparatus for Determining a Group Preference in a Social Network
First Claim
1. A method of electronically determining a group preference in a social network from a plurality of individual preferences of members of the social network, the method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining individual preferences from the members;
determining an individual importance for each of the members to the social network;
weighting each of the individual preferences with a corresponding individual importance; and
generating the group preference from weighted individual preferences.
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Abstract
A method (100) of electronically determining a group preference in a social network from multiple individual preferences of members of the social network is provided. One embodiment of the method (100) uses a combination of an individual'"'"'s importance to a social network and a social network'"'"'s importance to the individual as weighting factors when combining the individual preferences to generate a shared set of preferences. This group preference may be used to select content for broadcast to the network, including audio content and video content. A social network group preference determination apparatus (401) can determine the individual'"'"'s importance to the social network by interrogating or monitoring the communication activity of portable electronic communication devices (402) belonging to the members of the social network.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of electronically determining a group preference in a social network from a plurality of individual preferences of members of the social network, the method comprising the steps of:
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obtaining individual preferences from the members; determining an individual importance for each of the members to the social network; weighting each of the individual preferences with a corresponding individual importance; and generating the group preference from weighted individual preferences. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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11. A portable electronic communication device for use in electronically determining a group preference from a plurality of individual preferences, comprising:
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a preference module comprising individual content preference information; a social network relevance module comprising information relating to an individual'"'"'s importance relative to a social network; and an electronic communication module configured to transmit both the individual content preference information and the information relating to the individual'"'"'s importance relative to the social network to a remote social network group preference determination apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (13)
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15. A social network group preference determination apparatus, comprising:
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an interrogation module configured to determine individual content preference information corresponding to members of a social network by electronically communicating with portable electronic communication devices belonging to the members of the social network; an individual importance determination module configured to determine an individual'"'"'s importance to the social network by one of monitoring electronic communication activity of the portable electronic communication devices or by referencing predetermined individual importance data corresponding to the members of the social network; an analysis module configured to weight individual content preferences with the individual'"'"'s importance to the social network; and an electronic delivery module configured to electronically transmit the individual content preferences weighted with the individual'"'"'s importance to the social network as weighted preferences.
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