DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF SHARING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION

• US 20140129629A1
• Filed: 11/08/2012
• Published: 05/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saniel Sanilevich
• Original Assignee: David Rachamim, Eran Savir
• Inventors: SAVIR, Eran, RACHAMIM, David
• Granted Patent: US 9,009,229 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Device, system, and method of sharing social network information. A method of sharing social information includes: obtaining from a social network social information of passengers associated with a flight; and presenting the social information to a prospective passenger of said flight. The obtaining includes obtaining from the social network in bulk social information of at least two passengers associated with a flight, by sending a query which includes an identifier of said flight, and which excludes any identifier of any passenger on said flight.

Claims

1. A method of sharing social information, the method comprising:

obtaining from a social network social information of passengers associated with a flight; and

presenting said social information to a prospective passenger of said flight.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining comprises:

obtaining from the social network in bulk social information of at least two passengers associated with a flight.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining comprises:

sending a query which includes an identifier of said flight, and which excludes any identifier of any passenger on said flight.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the obtaining comprises:

in response to a single query identifying only a particular flight, obtaining a batch of social information items of at least two passengers on said particular flight.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the presenting comprises:

presenting a seating map for said flight indicating available seats and occupied seats; and

for at least one occupied seat, presenting social information of a passenger occupying said occupied seat.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising:

calculating a social relevance score for each one of said passengers associated with said flight; and

ranking said passengers based on said social relevance score.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein calculating the social relevance score comprises:

identifying common traits among passengers of said flight.

8. The method of claim 4, comprising:

allocating a first weight to a first common trait of a pair of passengers, and allocating a second, different, weight to a second common trait of said pair of passengers.

9. The method of claim 3, comprising:

based on said ranking, matching between a first passenger of said flight, and one or more other passengers-of-interest to said first passenger.

10. The method of claim 1, comprising:

receiving flight identification data from a flight booking system;

obtaining social information of passengers for said flight;

serving to said flight booking system said social information.

11. The method of claim 1, comprising:

establishing a first instance of Oauth protocol with a social network, comprising;

assigning to the social network a role of a server, and assigning to an intermediate module a role of a client; and

establishing a second, separate, instance of OAuth protocol with a flight booking system, comprising;

assigning to the intermediate module a role of a server, and assigning to the flight booking system a role of a client.

12. The method of claim 1, comprising:

displaying a flight search result page which comprises;

identifiers of one or more flights, and social information of passengers in each one of said one or more flights.

13. The method of claim 1, comprising:

presenting a seating map for said flight indicating available seats and occupied seats; and

presenting near the seating map a social widget for displaying social information of passengers in said flight.

14. The method of claim 1, comprising:

presenting a mock widget to elicit a user to log-in into a service which permits said user to share social information with other passengers on said flight.

15. The method of claim 1, comprising:

displaying a seat map of said flight, the seat map indicating which one or more seats are available and which one or more seats are reserved; and

upon a user pointing at a reserved seat on said seat map, displaying social information of a passenger that reserved said seat.

16. The method of claim 1, comprising:

displaying a seat map of said flight, the seat map indicating which one or more seats are available and which one or more seats are reserved; and

for at least one seat that is reserved, displaying at a location of said seat in the seat map an image of a passenger that reserved said seat.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining comprises:

obtaining social information of at least a first passenger and a second passenger on said flight, wherein the first passenger is a passenger who booked the flight through a website of an airline that operates said flight, and wherein the second passenger is a passenger who booked the flight through a website external to the website of said airline that operates said flight.

18. The method of claim 1, comprising:

suggesting to said prospective passenger a seat in said flight, based on one or more common traits identified by matching between social information of said prospective passenger and social information of other one or more passengers on said flights.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the suggesting comprises:

taking into account a feedback received from said prospective passenger regarding a previously-performed seat selection that was based on social information in a previous flight.

20. The method of claim 1, comprising:

sending to said prospective passenger a notification indicating a change in seating assignment of another passenger on said flight, the notification indicating a seat of said other passenger on said flight and further including social network information of said other passenger.