SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USER COMMUNICATION IN A NETWORK

• US 20200137019A1
• Filed: 12/28/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Match Group, LLC (Match Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Match Group, LLC (Match Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Barfield, JR., Robert Gex, Elmore, William, Cooke, Mark Allan
• Granted Patent: US 11,088,986 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4509 Unified messaging with single point of access to voicemail and other mail or messaging systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/53 Centralised arrangements for recording incoming messages , i.e. mailbox systems

Abstract

Methods and systems for user communication in an online community and/or website are provided. User profile data may be accessed to from a memory. An analysis system compares the user profile data for the user with a time-dependent goal to determine a result. The time-dependent goal may be determined based on an analysis of a set of (successful) users. A user interface system generates a representation of the result for prompting the user to initiate a communication to a different user based on the time-dependent goal. The representation may comprise a metered representation indicating an amount of progress, by the user, toward the time-dependent goal.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method, comprising:

receiving inputs to initiate online interactions from a user profile representing a user to other user profiles representing different users on a dating website;

storing, in a memory, a log of the online interactions from the user profile;

generating a time-dependent goal including a target number of interactions initiated from the user profile toward the other user profiles on the dating website within a period of time;

comparing the log of the online interactions from the user profile with the target number of the interactions in the time-dependent goal to produce a result, the result including a deficit in the interactions, the deficit measured within a sliding time window corresponding to the period of time specified in the time-dependent goal; and

attempting to reduce the deficit in the interactions by the user profile by transmitting information regarding the deficit for the user.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the information regarding the deficit is for a display to the user and to present the user an opportunity to interact with another user profile.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the information regarding the deficit causes the display to include a graphical representation of the deficit.

24. The method of claim 21, further comprising:

reducing the deficit in the interactions by transmitting one of the interactions from the user to another user profile.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein the generating is based on a gender of the user.

26. The method of claim 21, wherein the online interactions are winks, favorites, emails, or likes.

27. The method of claim 21, wherein the time-dependent goal includes a first goal corresponding to a first number of online interactions within a first period of time and a second goal corresponding to a second number of online interactions within a second period of time, the first period of time is shorter than the second period of time, and a ratio of the first number of online interactions to the second number of online interactions is larger than a ratio of the first period of time to the second period of time.

28. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform operations comprising:

receiving inputs to initiate online interactions from a user profile representing a user to other user profiles representing different users on a dating website;

storing a log of the online interactions from the user profile;

generating a time-dependent goal including a target number of interactions initiated from the user profile toward the other user profiles on the dating website within a period of time;

comparing the log of the online interactions from the user profile with the target number of the interactions in the time-dependent goal to produce a result, the result including a deficit in the interactions, the deficit measured within a sliding time window corresponding to the period of time specified in the time-dependent goal; and

attempting to reduce the deficit in the interactions by the user profile by transmitting information regarding the deficit for the user.

29. The medium of claim 28, wherein the information regarding the deficit is for a display to the user and to present the user an opportunity to interact with another user profile.

30. The medium of claim 29, wherein the information regarding the deficit causes the display to include a graphical representation of the deficit.

31. The medium of claim 28, the operations further comprising:

reducing the deficit in the interactions by transmitting one of the interactions from the user to another user profile.

32. The medium of claim 28, wherein the generating is based on a gender of the user.

33. The medium of claim 28, wherein the online interactions are winks, favorites, emails, or likes.

34. The medium of claim 28, wherein the time-dependent goal includes a first goal corresponding to a first number of online interactions within a first period of time and a second goal corresponding to a second number of online interactions within a second period of time, the first period of time is shorter than the second period of time, and a ratio of the first number of online interactions to the second number of online interactions is larger than a ratio of the first period of time to the second period of time.

35. A system, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processing unit coupled to the memory,

the processing unit to execute the instructions to

receive inputs to initiate online interactions from a user profile representing a user to other user profiles representing different users on a dating website;

store a log of the online interactions from the user profile;

generate a time-dependent goal including a target number of interactions initiated from the user profile toward the other user profiles on the dating website within a period of time;

compare the log of the online interactions from the user profile with the target number of the interactions in the time-dependent goal to produce a result, the result including a deficit in the interactions, the deficit measured within a sliding time window corresponding to the period of time specified in the time-dependent goal; and

attempt to reduce the deficit in the interactions by the user profile by transmitting information regarding the deficit for the user.

36. The system of claim 35, wherein the information regarding the deficit is for a display to the user and to present the user an opportunity to interact with another user profile.

37. The system of claim 35, wherein the processing unit further is to execute the instructions to reduce the deficit in the interactions by transmitting one of the interactions from the user to another user profile.

38. The system of claim 35, wherein the processing unit further is to generate the time-dependent goal based on a gender of the user.

39. The system of claim 35, wherein the online interactions are winks, favorites, emails, or likes.

40. The system of claim 35, wherein the time-dependent goal includes a first goal corresponding to a first number of online interactions within a first period of time and a second goal corresponding to a second number of online interactions within a second period of time, the first period of time is shorter than the second period of time, and a ratio of the first number of online interactions to the second number of online interactions is larger than a ratio of the first period of time to the second period of time.