Linking Browser Content to Social Network Data

• US 20130054617A1
• Filed: 08/30/2012
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alison Williams Colman
• Original Assignee: Alison Williams Colman
• Inventors: Colman, Alison Williams
• Application Number:
  US13/598,730
• Publication Number:
  US 20130054617A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Abstract Social networks contain a wealth of personal data when a user is accepted as a trusted contact by a second user. This data can be used to mine server accessed internet content to highlight information related to a user'"'"'s trusted contacts. Here an application extracts information from server accessed content, correlates it to information taken from social networking and alerts the user to information in the content related to their trusted contacts.

Claims

1. ) A method for associating internet published content with trusted contacts listed in a social network comprising:

select content to be viewed in a user interface;

access content residing on a server at a user computer;

create a personal data table from personal data including names in a users social network for trusted contacts;

create content table from content text strings including names;

correlate personal data table to content table and rank the correlation of each content table entry;

locate source of each content text entry in content; and

modify display of content entry in content as a function of the correlation rank.

2. ) The method for associating internet published content with contacts of claim 1 where the content table further includes pictures from content and the personal data table includes pictures of social network trusted contacts.

3. ) The method for associating internet published content with contacts of claim 1 where at least one text entry in the content table is all the text of the content.

4. ) The method for associating internet published content with contacts of claim 1 where modifying the display includes displaying an additional window with trusted contact information.

5. ) The method for associating internet published content with contacts of claim 1 where the personal data table includes personal data including names of second tier trusted contacts.

6. ) An application for modifying displayed content as a function of correlation to social network personal data comprising:

a user interface to display content;

content including text selected from a server by a user for display on the user interface;

a content table of one or more text strings from the content with content location keys populated by the application;

a personal data table of personal data entries from the user'"'"'s social network with source keys populated by the application; and

a rank for each content table text string;

where each content text string is ranked by its correlation to the list of personal data entries and the location key for each text string identifies the source of each word in the content and display of the content is modified based on the rank of the text string.

7. ) The application to modify displayed content of claim 6 where each text string is one or more words.

8. ) The application to modify displayed content of claim 6 where at least one text string of the content table includes all the text in the content.

9_The. )The application to modify displayed content of claim 6 where the list of text strings includes each word is a text string in the list and sets of sequential words in the content are text strings in the list.

10. ) The application to modify displayed content of claim 6 where modifying the display of content includes modifying the appearance of text in the content.

11. ) The application to modify displayed content of claim 6 where the personal data table includes personal data for second tier contacts.

19. ) The method of providing trusted contact information from a content provider of claim 10 where modifying the display of the source text includes displaying a social network page of a trusted contact.

12. ) A method of providing trusted contact information from a content provider comprising:

sending from the content provider an offer for a software application to be installed on the user'"'"'s computer in response to a reader requesting content from the content provider;

sending the software to memory in the reader'"'"'s computer and installing the software in response to receiving a request from the reader for the software application; and

running the software application in response to downloading content from the publisher;

where the software application;

accesses personal data from the user'"'"'s social network trusted contacts;

creates a table of personal data text strings from the user'"'"'s social network trusted contacts;

creates a table of one or more content text strings from the downloaded content;

determines a relevance rank of each text string in relation to each social network text string; and

modifies the display of the source text on the user interface based on the relevance rank for that text string.

13. ) The method of providing trusted contact information from a content provider of claim 12 where the personal data text strings include names of individuals.

14. ) The method of providing trusted contact information from a content provider of claim 12 where the personal data text strings include names of companies.

15. ) The method of providing trusted contact information from a content provider of claim 12 where the table of personal data strings includes personal data for second tier trusted contacts.

16. ) The method of providing trusted contact information from a content provider of claim 12 where the social network text strings include locations.

17. ) The method of providing trusted contact information from a content provider of claim 12 where the relevance rank is calculated based on a set of rules that weights each category of personal data from the social network.

18. ) The method of providing trusted contact information from a content provider of claim 12 where the personal data includes a picture and the content table includes a picture taken from content and a relevance rank is calculated for the two pictures.