PEOPLE RECOMMENDATION INDICATOR METHOD AND APPARATUS IN A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE

• US 20110145719A1
• Filed: 12/14/2009
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Jilin, Dugan, Casey, Geyer, Weyner, Muller, Michael
• Application Number:
  US12/637,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20110145719A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/739
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

An indicator method and system recommends people in a computerized social networking site. Indicators in a user interface indicate user-relatedness and/or connectedness information between a given user and other people of the social networking site. The user interface employs the indicators to consistently make people recommendations to the given user. The indicators may be visual including symbolic, graphically illustrative and recommendation score (extent) indicating. The user interface places and displays the indicator at each occurrence of the recommended person'"'"'s name and/or image throughout each pertinent screen view/page of the social networking site.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

a user interface enabling user navigation in a computerized social networking site; and

an indicator indicating user relatedness information between a given user and other people of the social networking site, the user interface employing the indicator in a manner consistently making people recommendations to the given user.

2. A computer system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the indicator is any combination of a visual indication and an audible indication.

3. A computer system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the indicator includes any of:

a symbol, a graphical illustration, and a recommendation score.

4. A computer system as claimed in claim 3 wherein the graphical illustration is a fillable gauge or bar type graph.

5. A computer system as claimed in claim 3 wherein the indicator includes colorizing.

6. A computer system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the indicator includes changing size of a displayed element in a page displayed by the social networking site.

7. A computer system as claimed in claim 6 wherein the displayed element is any of image and text.

8. A computer system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the indicator includes changing shape or border of a displayed element.

9. A computer system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the indicator includes changing text treatment of displayed text.

10. A computer system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the indicator includes indicating degree of or extent of user connectedness to other people in the social networking site.

11. A computer method comprising:

using a user interface enabling user interaction with a computerized social networking site; and

providing an indicator indicating user relatedness information between a given user and other people of the social networking site, including employing the indicator in the user interface in a manner consistently making people recommendations to the given user.

12. A computer method as claimed in claim 11 wherein the indicator is any combination of a visual indication and an audible indication.

13. A computer system as claimed in claim 11 wherein the indicator includes any of:

a symbol, a graphical illustration, and a recommendation score.

14. A computer system as claimed in claim 13 wherein the graphical illustration is a fillable gauge or bar type graph.

15. A computer system as claimed in claim 13 wherein the indicator includes colorizing.

16. A computer system as claimed in claim 11 wherein the indicator includes changing size of a displayed element in a page displayed by the social networking site.

17. A computer system as claimed in claim 16 wherein the displayed element is any of image and text.

18. A computer system as claimed in claim 11 wherein the indicator includes changing shape or border of a displayed element.

19. A computer system as claimed in claim 11 wherein the indicator includes changing text treatment of displayed text.

20. A computer system as claimed in claim 11 wherein the indicator includes indicating degree of or extent of user connectedness to other people in the social networking site.

21. Computer program product for recommending people in a computerized social networking site, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to provide an indicator indicating user relatedness information between a given user and other people of the social networking site, including employing the indicator in a user interface in a manner consistently making people recommendations to the given user throughout a given page and throughout pages of the social networking site.