SOCIAL NETWORK WITH MULTIPLE LOGINS
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards seeding a user'"'"'s contacts for their online social network. The invention is arranged to automatically recommend to the user a set of seed contacts that the user may employ to invite to join their social network. The set of seed contacts may be harvested from the user'"'"'s existing portal activities, as well as other sources. In one embodiment, the invention analyzes portal activity, such as email exchanges with the user, and the like, to determine a frequency of contact with the user. Other sources may include but not be limited to emails, names within an address book of the user, names within an address book of another person, a buddy list, an instant messaging list, an activity, a mailing list, an online discussion group, a membership in a category, chat group, and the like.
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40 Claims
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21. A method comprising:
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organizing, via a server, user data in a data structure representing a social network of users, said user data comprising, for a first user of the social network, user data fields, each data field representing a different entry related to the first user; receiving data field instructions from the first user to associate certain data fields of said user data with a first user persona, the data field instructions controlling exposure of the data fields based the first user persona; receiving login instructions from the first user to link a first persona login to the first user persona; and controlling, via the server, access to the certain data fields in accordance with the first user persona and the first persona login. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A system comprising:
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a database comprising stored user data; a social network server in communication with the user data in the database, the social network server programmed to perform a plurality of operations, comprising; organizing user data in a data structure representing a social network of users, said user data comprising, for a first user of the social network, user data fields, each data field representing a different entry related to the first user; receiving data field instructions from the first user to associate certain data fields of said user data with a first user persona, the data field instructions controlling exposure of the data fields based the first user persona; receiving login instructions from the first user to link a first persona login to the first user persona; and controlling access to the certain data fields in accordance with the first user persona and the first persona login. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40)
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