SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT SHARING ACROSS ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKS

• US 20110282944A1
• Filed: 05/12/2011
• Published: 11/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BroadVision, Inc.
• Original Assignee: BroadVision, Inc.
• Inventors: Wu, James, Handoko, Petrus, Boyer, Charles David, Chen, Pehong, Anantharamaiah, Ramesh, Pollock, Jonathan, Nasson, Randy, Henderson, Donald Tucker
• Application Number:
  US13/106,690
• Publication Number:
  US 20110282944A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Systems and methods for sharing content over a collection of social networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system comprises a first social network, a second social network, and at least one sharing table. The at least one sharing table is configured to share a first content from the first social network with the second social network.

Claims

1. A method in a server for sharing content over a collection of social networks, the method comprising:

receiving a first content from a first user of a first social network;

receiving information identifying a second social network; and

sharing the first content with the second network by providing a content association to a sharing table.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining if the first user has permission to distribute the content to the second network.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining if the first user has permission to upload the first content.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the content association comprises providing a source identifier and a target identifier.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the target identifier identifies the second social network, a community of the second social network, or a user of the second social network.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein adding the content association further comprises providing a relationship of the source identifier and the target identifier.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the relationship comprises an access permission.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first social network comprises a company intranet.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first social network comprises a first community having a plurality of users as members, and wherein the first user is a member of the first community, and wherein the method further comprises sharing the first content with the first social network by providing a content association to the sharing table.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second social networks are in the same ecosystem.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second social networks are in a different ecosystem.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content comprises at least one of a document, a digital image, a digital video, a blog entry, and a forum post.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising using, the content identifier to locate the first content within a global content table.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising sharing content within a shared community by providing one or more content identifiers to one or more sharing tables associated with the shared community.

15. A system for sharing content over a collection of social networks, the system comprising:

a first social network;

a second social network; and

at least one sharing table for sharing a first content from the first social network with the second social network.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the first social network comprises a plurality of users, and wherein the at least one sharing table is further configured to share the first content to a first user of the users.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the first social network comprises a first community having at least a portion of the users as members, wherein the at least one sharing table is further configured to distribute the first content to the first community.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the first social network comprises a company intranet.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the first content comprises at least one of a document, a digital image, a digital video, a blog entry, and a forum post.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the at least one sharing table is further configured to contain access control information for the first content.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein the access control information comprises read and edit permissions.

22. The system of claim 15, the at least one sharing table includes at least one content association having a source identifier and a content identifier.

23. The system of claim 15, wherein the at least one sharing table includes information indicating the relationship of the sharing between the source identifier and the content identifier.

24. The system of claim 15, further comprising a global content table for storing content associated with the first and second social networks including the first content, and wherein the at least one sharing table includes a first sharing table associated with the first social network and a second sharing table associated with the second social network.

25. The system of claim 24, further comprising a shared community including a first community of the first social network and a second community of the second social network, and wherein the first and second sharing tables each include a content identifier identifying a second content of the global content table.

26. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed perform a method in a server for sharing content over a collection of social networks, the method comprising:

receiving a first content from a first user of a first social network;

receiving information identifying a second social network; and

sharing the first content with the second network by providing a content association to a sharing table.

27. A system for sharing content over a collection of social networks, the system comprising:

a first social network;

a second social network; and

at least one means for sharing a first content from the first social network with the second social network.