Methods and systems for pairing rivals in a social network.

• US 20140222909A1
• Filed: 02/04/2013
• Published: 08/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Paupt Labs LLC
• Original Assignee: Paupt Labs LLC
• Inventors: Ford, Daniel Alexander, Toll, Caldwell Martin II
• Application Number:
  US13/758,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20140222909A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

A method, system and computer program for operating a social network. The method may include generating and recording social rival relationships.

Claims

1. A method to be performed by a general purpose computer for operating a social network comprising the steps of:

generating one or more social rival relationships between a plurality of entities known to the social network; and

recording one or more social rival relationships between the plurality of entities known to the social network.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

generating one or more social rivalry compatibility metric values between the plurality of entities known to the social network.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the generated one or more social rival relationships between a plurality of entities known to the social network are generated in accordance with the social rivalry compatibility metric values.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said accordance is that a given metric value is the largest such value

5. The method of claim 3, wherein said accordance is that a given metric value is greater than a threshold value.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein said accordance is that the metric value is Boolean True.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein said generated social rivalry compatibility metric values are obtained by querying one or more entities known to the social network.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein said generated social rivalry compatibility metric values are obtained by computation.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said computation combines social affinity compatibility metric values with social incompatibility metric values.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more recorded social rival relationships between a plurality of entities known to the social network are anonymous,

whereby, the identities of one or more of the plurality of entities known to the social network in the one or more recorded social rival relationships between the plurality of entities known to the social network are not exposed to the one or more entities of the plurality of entities known to the social network who are recorded in the same social rival relationships.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

exposing information about one or more of the plurality of entities known to the social network, to one or more of the one or more entities of the plurality of entities known to the social network in the same recorded social rival relationships.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the exposure of information proceeds in an ongoing manner.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the information exposed includes still and moving images with accompanying audio, text, data or statistics.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the information exposed includes the identities of one or more entities in the one or more recorded social rival relationships between a plurality of entities known to the social network.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the ongoing exposure of information is accomplished using a communications device.

16. The method of claim 15, where in the communications device is a mobile telephone, watch, or augmented reality display.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

exposing the existence of the one or more recorded social rivalry relationships between the plurality of entities known to the social network.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

making the one or more of the one or more recorded social rivalry relationships between a plurality of entities known to the social network part of the result of a query of the one or more recorded social rivalry relationships between a plurality of entities known to the social network.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

performing mathematical analysis of the set of the one or more recorded social rivalry relationships between a plurality of entities known to the social network.