Notifications in a Social Network Service

• US 20110218931A1
• Filed: 03/03/2010
• Published: 09/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Kunins, Jeffrey C., Logan, Angus Phillip Donald, Pearce, Douglas R.
• Application Number:
  US12/716,996
• Publication Number:
  US 20110218931A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/319
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Notification techniques in a social network service are described. In an implementation, a status update is analyzed that is communicated via a social network service and is originated by a user. One or more other status updates are located that correspond to the analyzed status update, the one or more other status updates are communicated via the social network service and originated by one or more other users. A notification is formed to be communicated to the originating user that indicates the one or more other status updates have been located.

Claims

1. A method implemented by at least one computing device, the method comprising:

analyzing a status update that is to be communicated via a social network service and is originated by a user;

locating one or more other status updates that correspond to the analyzed status update, the one or more other status updates are communicated via the social network service and originated by one or more other users; and

forming a notification to be communicated to the originating user that indicates the one or more other status updates have been located.

2. A method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing includes a keyword search and the locating leverages a result of the keyword search.

3. A method of claim 1, wherein the status update includes an indication of a location of the originating user and the locating is performed at least in part by leveraging the indication.

4. A method of claim 1, wherein the one or more other users have subscribed to receive the status update that is originated by the user.

5. A method of claim 1, wherein the one or more other users are specified as friends of the user and are thereby have permission to access the status update that is originated by the user.

6. A method of claim 5, wherein the status update is not accessible to the one or more other users absent the permission provided by the specification as friends.

7. A method of claim 5, wherein the locating is not performed for at least one user of the social network service that is not specified as a friend of the originating user.

8. A method of claim 1, wherein the notification is to be communicated via the social network service to the originating user and includes a summary of the one or more other status updates.

9. A method of claim 8, wherein the notification is to be displayed in a user interface as part of a network feed.

10. A method of claim 1, wherein the communication is configured in accordance with a SMS.

11. A method of claim 1, further comprising prioritizing the one or more other status updates and wherein the communication includes the one or more other status updates as prioritized.

12. A method implemented by at least one computing device, the method comprising:

searching a plurality of content of one or more friends of a user in a social network service, automatically and without user intervention, to locate at least one item of said content that corresponds to user-generated content to be communicated from the user to the one or more friends of the user; and

responsive to the location of the at least one item of said content, notifying the user that the at least one item of said d content is located.

13. A method of claim 12, wherein the content is user-generated content that includes a status update, an email message communicated via the social network service, a blog post, or a micro-blog post having less that a predetermined number of characters.

14. A method of claim 12, wherein the searching includes extracting one or more keywords from the user-generated content to be communicated from the user to the one or more friends of the user and finding the at least one item of said content that corresponds to the extracted one or more keywords.

15. A method of claim 12, further comprising forming a communication to be communicated to the user that includes a summary of the at least one item of said content.

16. A method of claim 12, wherein the notifying is configured to be performed using SMS and the communication is configured to be performed using email.

17. A method of claim 12, wherein the searching is performed using one or more machine learning algorithms.

18. A method of claim 17, wherein the one or more machine learning algorithms include a support vector machine (SVM) or latent semantic indexing (LSI).

19. One or more tangible computer-readable media comprising instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution on a computing device, causes the computing device to:

extract one or more keywords from a status update that is communicated via a social network service and is originated by a user;

locate user-generated content that correspond to the extracted one or more keywords, the user-generated content is communicated via the social network service and originated by one or more other users that are permitted to access the status update that is originated by the user; and

form a communication to be communicated to the originating user that includes the located one or more other status updates.

20. One or more tangible computer-readable media of claim 19, wherein the user-generated content is another status update.