Inter-Corporate Collaboration Overlay Solution for Professional Social Networks
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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.
27 Citations
14 Claims
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1-6. -6. (canceled)
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7. A method, comprising:
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(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. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14-20. -20. (canceled)
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