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System and Method for Dynamically Generating A Content Correlated Service Based Mobile Social Network

  • US 20160140671A1
  • Filed: 11/17/2014
  • Published: 05/19/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2014
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. In a mobile computing system including a server and a database of registered users connected through Internet or wireless communication means, a method dynamically generating a mobile social network, based on characteristics and classifications of businesses and related services, users'"'"' personal preferences, priorities and their uploaded records in the server database with regard to their specific interest and feedback about the relevant businesses and services, and automatically managing, correlating, selecting, ranking and displaying the necessary contents of interest to users in time sensitive and location aware manners, the method comprising the steps of:

  • Displaying to the registered viewing user the personal favorite contents of businesses and services at the time and location of viewing, obtained from the computer system database, based on the user'"'"'s history of uploaded records and past preferences of those favorite contents, and other available nearby businesses and services within the desired proximity of the user;

    Retrieving from the computer system database, the favorite contents of nearby businesses and services of other users who are linked together with the viewing user in this mobile social network through the sharing of certain common interest to some other businesses and services, and ranking the nearby businesses and services in relation to the preferences and location of the viewing user, based on the matching and weighting to a collection of service characteristics, business classifications, personal criteria, favorite attributes, among the viewing user, the users linked with the viewing user, and all the nearby businesses and services within the desired proximity of the viewing user, displaying accordingly to the viewing user a recommended ranking list of the favorite contents of businesses and services for the user to choose from pending on the privacy and preference settings of the viewing user;

    Allowing the viewing user to take actions to generate more favorite contents of businesses and services of personal interest, which is made of any form of photos, notes, messages, voice records, video clips, and a combination of some of them, through the use of available capabilities from smart phones or other computing devices, and to upload and download his or her own favorite records to or from the server database respectively;

    Providing means for the viewing user to indicate or to add certain favorite characteristics, classifications and attributes to the user favorite records each time when they are generated, with time stamps, location indicators, personal preferences, security settings, sharing options, and additional notes and criteria that are not already built in the computer system, or not in the profile settings of the user or the businesses and services. Such an indication to the businesses and services is achieved either through the active selection of the user, or the automatic correlation by the computer system by means of matching the favorite records with the location of the user, and the registered profiles of the user, the business, and the related services;

    Providing means for the viewing user to upload such user generated favorite records, their characteristics and classifications onto the computer server and database through the Internet or wireless communication means;

    Storing the user'"'"'s newly generated favorite records in the computer server and database in such that the records become trackable, sortable, retrievable, viewable, and shareable through the recorded characteristics, classifications, attributes and criteria, not only by the users, but also by the contents they contain;

    Correlating the viewing user'"'"'s records with those similar records of other users in the computer server database, calculating and determining a matching list of possible linkages with priority ranking between the viewing user and some other users, based on their preference settings, security profile settings, contents of favorite records uploaded onto the server database, the favorite characteristics, classifications and attributes indicated in their records, the active status of the relevant users, and displaying such matching list of ranking users to the viewing user, with consideration to additional display and sharing options and restrictions set by the viewing user and the matching users;

    Providing means for the viewing user to initiate an invitation to the selected matching and ranking users to join a specific content correlated social circle, either existing or newly created by the viewing user, where the favorite records, viewpoints and further information about the contents of the businesses and services are shared, exchanged, discussed and further expanded;

    Providing means for the receiving user of the invitation to join a content correlated circle to take proper actions, to either accept, forward, ignore, reject the invitation, or report to the system as an issue to be addressed, and to allow the initiating and accepting users to be connected in the specific social circles once accepted, so that each user can further explore other user'"'"'s favorite contents of businesses and services through the shared and open preference linkages;

    Providing means for the viewing user to review his or her own active statistical status in the specific circle about the relevant contents of the businesses and services, as well as the status of a ranking list of other users visible to the viewing user in the circle, in such that the viewing user can further initiate request to join other circles of interest through the other ranking users, which needs to be accepted by the other user or the owner of the circle before joining, unless the joining of such circles is made open to the public by the owning user;

    Providing means for the viewing user to automatically discover other matching users with shared interest in some characteristics, classifications, attributes, criteria to some businesses and services, so that the the viewing user can build up his or her own social network circles, either internally in the computer system, or externally through the mutual connections with the matching users, to form a content correlated favorite focused communities of his or her interest, without the compromise of personal private and sensitive information;

    Providing means for the viewing user to automatically discover a ranking list of recommendation of favorite businesses and services under the same business category of user'"'"'s interest, within the desired proximity of the viewing user, which matches with the user'"'"'s preference settings and the historical indications of user'"'"'s preference in the uploaded favorite records;

    Providing means for the viewing user to automatically discover a ranking list of recommendation of favorite businesses and services under one business category of user'"'"'s selection, within the desired proximity of the viewing user, based on the preference settings and the historical indiction of the preferences in the uploaded favorite records under another different business category by the user, and based also on the preferences and favorite records under the same business category of the viewing user'"'"'s selection from the user'"'"'s circles of social connections, which effectively allows the viewing user to automatically discover favorite businesses and services within the location of his interest in one business category, based on favorite business and services in another business category, whether through his or her own favorite records or the favorite records of his or her social circles;

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