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Method for monitoring and encouraging community activity in a networked environment

  • US 6,742,032 B1
  • Filed: 12/17/1999
  • Issued: 05/25/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for monitoring and encouraging activity in a community of users having a common interest in a networked environment, the community of users engaging and interacting with one another pertaining to the common interest, comprising:

  • establishing a critical activity coefficient for deciding when the community is sleeping, wherein the community is sleeping if a measured rate at which the community of users engage and interact with one another in the community falls below the critical activity coefficient;

    monitoring the rate at which the community of users engage and interact with one another in the community;

    determining when the monitored activity is less than the established critical activity coefficient for sleeping;

    responsive to a determination that the community is sleeping, initiating a recovery mechanism for increasing activity in the community and reawakening the community; and

    wherein the community comprises a news group and the critical activity coefficient is a fraction of number of accesses per unit time per user, number of threads per time per user and length of the threads.

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