Adaptive Social Network Management
First Claim
1. A social network management system, comprising:
- a computer-implemented structural aspect comprising a network of objects and relationships among the objects wherein a plurality of the objects each comprise information representational of a person;
a usage aspect comprising a plurality of usage behaviors of one or more users associated with the network of objects; and
a function to generate a metric associated with a person represented as an object in the network of objects derivatively from a plurality of usage behaviors in the usage aspect associated with at least one object in the network of objects that has a relationship to the said person.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method of adaptive social network management is disclosed. The social networks comprise a network of computer-implemented objects representing people and may include content that has a relation to one or more of the people. The adaptive social network management system provides functions to generate social network metrics associated with people that are determined derivatively from interactions with objects that have a relationship with the corresponding people. The adaptive social network management system can also generate affinities among computer-implemented objects that represent people from inferences of the interests of the people. Social network representations are generated and applied that include the social network metrics and/or affinities.
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20 Claims
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1. A social network management system, comprising:
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a computer-implemented structural aspect comprising a network of objects and relationships among the objects wherein a plurality of the objects each comprise information representational of a person; a usage aspect comprising a plurality of usage behaviors of one or more users associated with the network of objects; and a function to generate a metric associated with a person represented as an object in the network of objects derivatively from a plurality of usage behaviors in the usage aspect associated with at least one object in the network of objects that has a relationship to the said person. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A social network management method, comprising:
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accessing a computer-implemented structural aspect comprising a network of objects and relationships among the objects wherein a plurality of the objects each comprise information representational of a person; accessing a usage aspect comprising a plurality of usage behaviors of one or more users associated with the network of objects; and generating a metric associated with a person represented as an object in the network of objects derivatively from a plurality of usage behaviors in the usage aspect associated with at least one object in the network of objects that has a relationship to the said person. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A social network method comprising:
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interacting with a computer-implemented structural aspect comprising a plurality of objects; contributing behaviors to a usage aspect, the usage aspect comprising a plurality of captured usage behaviors that are associated with a plurality of users interacting with the structural aspect; and accessing 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, wherein the affinity is based, at least in part, on an inference of interests derived from the plurality of captured usage behaviors associated with the plurality of users. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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