User Engagement In a Social Network Using Indications of Acknowledgement
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- receiving, at a social network, indications of acknowledgment associated with at least one information item from at least a first user and a second user;
aggregating the indications of acknowledgment associated with the at least one information item according to a topic;
receiving search terms from a third user that correspond to the topic;
providing the indications of acknowledgement to the third user; and
providing to the first user a number of times that the indication of acknowledgement from the first user appeared in association with search terms that correspond to the topic.
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Abstract
A method and system for enhancing and incentivizing user engagement with indications of acknowledgement at a social network is described. An acknowledgement application receives indications of acknowledgement associated with at least one information item from a first user and at least one second user at a social network. The acknowledgement application aggregates and processes the indications of acknowledgement. The acknowledgement application provides at least one result from the processing in response to hovering over an option for the indications of acknowledgement associated with the at least one information item. The acknowledgement application rewards the first user at least one numerical point based on indications of acknowledgement associated with the at least one specific topic and provides at least one badge of achievement to the first user on accumulating at least one threshold of a total number of points.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a social network, indications of acknowledgment associated with at least one information item from at least a first user and a second user; aggregating the indications of acknowledgment associated with the at least one information item according to a topic; receiving search terms from a third user that correspond to the topic; providing the indications of acknowledgement to the third user; and providing to the first user a number of times that the indication of acknowledgement from the first user appeared in association with search terms that correspond to the topic. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A system comprising:
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one or more processors, the processors being configured to; receive, at a social network, indications of acknowledgement associated with at least one information item from a first user and a second user; aggregate the indications of acknowledgement associated with the at least one information item according to a topic; receive search terms from a user that corresponds to the topic; provide the indications of acknowledgement to the third user; and provide to the first user a number of times that the indications of acknowledgement from the first user appeared in association with search terms that correspond to the topic. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium encoding instructions that, in response to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
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receiving, at a social network, indications of acknowledgment associated with at least one information item from a first user and a second user; aggregating the indications of acknowledgment associated with the at least one information item relating to a topic; receiving search terms from a third user that correspond to the topic; providing the indications of acknowledgement to the third user; and providing to the first user a number of times that the indication of acknowledgement from the first user appeared in association with search terms that correspond to the topic. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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