Inter-Corporate Collaboration Overlay Solution for Professional Social Networks

• US 20120110083A1
• Filed: 01/06/2012
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Avaya Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Avaya Incorporated
• Inventors: Burritt, David, McNearny, Carla, Toennis, Roger
• Application Number:
  US13/345,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20120110083A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A service provider includes a broker. The broker receives a request from a business organization requestor for one or more potential collaborators in a determined subject matter area; accesses one or more personal profiles maintained by one or more social network services; selects a subset of individuals described in the accessed profiles as being of potential interest to the requestor; and provides to the requestor information describing the members of the subset of individuals.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A method, comprising:

(a) accessing, by a service provider, selected employee and/or contractor information maintained by at least one of an organization and a social network service; and

(b) providing the accessed information to the other of at least one of an organization and a social network service, whereby selected fields in the records of the organization and social network service contain substantially consistent information and are substantially synchronized.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the service provider, organization, and social network service are different business organizations and wherein step (a) comprises the sub-step:

(A1) filtering, by the at least one of a business organization and social network service, employee and/or contractor information to provide the selected employee and/or contractor information for access by the service provider.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the service provider, business organization, and social network service are different business organizations and wherein step (a) comprises the sub-step:

(A1) providing the selected employee and/or contractor information describing an individual to the individual for review and approval before providing the selected employee and/or contractor information for access by the service provider.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one of a business organization and social network service is the business organization.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one of a business organization and social network service is the social network service.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one of a business organization and social network service comprises multiple entities and wherein differing sets of selected employee and/or contractor information is provided to different ones of the entities.

13. A computer readable medium comprising processor executable instructions that, when executed, perform the steps of claim 7.

14-20. -20. (canceled)