LINKING USERS INTO LIVE SOCIAL NETWORKING INTERACTIONS BASED ON THE USERS' ACTIONS RELATIVE TO SIMILAR CONTENT
First Claim
1. A method for linking users into social interactions across a data communications network of plural network-connectable devices based on a search for user-specified content accessible via the network, wherein executing coded instructions stored at a tangible, non-transitory data storage medium via data processing circuitry of one or more of the plural network-connectable devices, causes the network-connectable device to execute operations, comprising:
- identifying content metadata included in a user-specified network search query executed by the user at one of the plural network-connectable devices;
identifying an item of found content having metadata that is similar to the metadata included in the search query;
identifying whether the item of found content is registered for enabling social interactions between users;
identifying another user that has indicated an interest to be linked into a network-enabled social interaction relative to either or both of the item of found content and the identified content metadata;
establishing a live social network link between the user and the other user in response to a selection by the user; and
displaying to the user, at a display device operably coupled with one of the plural network-connectable devices, an n-dimensional virtual environment and an indication therein of the established live social network link.
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Abstract
A system and method that uses internet content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence.
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1. A method for linking users into social interactions across a data communications network of plural network-connectable devices based on a search for user-specified content accessible via the network, wherein executing coded instructions stored at a tangible, non-transitory data storage medium via data processing circuitry of one or more of the plural network-connectable devices, causes the network-connectable device to execute operations, comprising:
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identifying content metadata included in a user-specified network search query executed by the user at one of the plural network-connectable devices; identifying an item of found content having metadata that is similar to the metadata included in the search query; identifying whether the item of found content is registered for enabling social interactions between users; identifying another user that has indicated an interest to be linked into a network-enabled social interaction relative to either or both of the item of found content and the identified content metadata; establishing a live social network link between the user and the other user in response to a selection by the user; and displaying to the user, at a display device operably coupled with one of the plural network-connectable devices, an n-dimensional virtual environment and an indication therein of the established live social network link. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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