SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORM
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1. A method of providing an online hosted event having at least two hosts and a plurality of audience members within a social network, the method comprising:
- receiving a host message from a host;
sending to the plurality of audience members an instruction to display the host message in a first panel;
receiving an audience member comment from a first audience member;
scoring the audience member comment based on a volume rating of the first audience member;
sending to the plurality of audience members an instruction to display the audience member comment in a second panel visible to each audience member based on the score;
receiving an indication that a host has selected the audience member comment; and
sending to the plurality of audience members an instruction to display the selected audience member comment in the first panel.
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Abstract
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a social networking platform. The social networking platform may provide hosted events where audience members can comment on the events. A rating system may select comments that are positively rated for display to all audience members. Audience members may have a Volume rating that affects whether their comments are seen. Hosts may spotlight comments, enabling all audience members to view the comment and also increasing the rating of the user posting the comment.
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23 Claims
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1. A method of providing an online hosted event having at least two hosts and a plurality of audience members within a social network, the method comprising:
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receiving a host message from a host; sending to the plurality of audience members an instruction to display the host message in a first panel; receiving an audience member comment from a first audience member; scoring the audience member comment based on a volume rating of the first audience member; sending to the plurality of audience members an instruction to display the audience member comment in a second panel visible to each audience member based on the score; receiving an indication that a host has selected the audience member comment; and sending to the plurality of audience members an instruction to display the selected audience member comment in the first panel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method performed by a user device for hosting an online hosted event having at least two hosts and a plurality of audience members within a social network, the method comprising:
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displaying an interface having a first panel and a second panel; receiving input comments from the user; displaying the input comments in the first panel; receiving audience member comments; displaying audience member comments in the second panel; receiving a user selection of an audience member comment; and displaying the selected audience member comment in the first panel. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method performed by a user device for participating in an online hosted event having at least two hosts and a plurality of audience members within a social network, the method comprising:
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displaying an interface having a first panel and a second panel; receiving host comments; displaying the host comments in the first panel; receiving audience member comments; displaying audience member comments in the second panel; receiving an indication that a host has selected an audience member message; and displaying the selected audience member comment in the first panel. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer server for providing an online event for a plurality of users including two hosts and a plurality of audience members, the server comprising:
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a front end module configured to provide an interface to a user device of each user; a node module configured to establish a connection with each user device, the connection allowing the server to push comments to each user device; a queue broker configured to establish a queue of comments for each of the users, a host comment queue, and an audience member comment queue; a comment database configured to store each comment received from the users, each comment including a comment type; and a backend module configured to receive comments from the queue broker, select users to receive each comment based on the comment type, and add the comments to the queues of the selected users.
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22. The server of claim 22, wherein the backend module is further configured to:
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periodically determine a volume score for each audience member; receive a comment from the audience member comment queue; determine a comment score for the comment based on the volume score; determine whether the comment score exceeds a threshold score based on the volume score of other audience members; add the comment to the queues of each user responsive to the comment score exceeding the threshold score; and add the comment to the queue of each user who has elected to listen to the audience member. - View Dependent Claims (23)
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