Interactive community of interest profile

• US 7,970,111 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2006
• Issued: 06/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Swanburg, Scott Allen
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramakrishnaiah, Melur
• Application Number:
  US11/514,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20080077529A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,761 Days
• Field of Search: 379/90.01, 379 9302- 9307, 379/93.15, 379/93.17, 379/93.25, 705/14.27, 705/319, 455/466, 380/91.3, 342/357.09
• US Class Current: 379/90.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/042 characterized in that the payment protocol involves at least one cheque

Abstract

A system for generating and working with communities of interests is disclosed. In various forms, the present system allows multiple users sharing common interests to interact with each other seamlessly, seek out times when each is available, and other such convenience functions.

Claims

1. An interactive community of interest profiling system stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the system comprising:

a social profile generation component for generating a profile of a user;

a social community discovery component to discover existing social communities and if a social community does not exist, then to create a new social community based on said profile generated by said profile generation component, the creation of the new social community further being based in part upon interactions of a plurality of users using a plurality of applications;

a social community registration component to register a user of a mobile device with the social community created by said discovery component;

a social community multimedia reception component for receiving multimedia from other members of said social community registered by said registration component; and

a social community multimedia transmitting component for transmitting multimedia to other members of said social community.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the social community discovery component and the social community registration component are accessed through a web portal.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the social community discovery component and the social community registration component are accessed through said user'"'"'s mobile device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the social community registration component registers said user of a mobile telephone with said social community by sending a registration request message to at least one existing member of said social community and registering said user with said social community if the social community registration component receives a reply message from said existing member granting permission to register said user with said social community.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the social community registration component presents said user with a list of social communities discovered by said social community discovery component and said user selects which social community the social community registration component shall register said user with.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the multimedia received or transmitted by said social community multimedia transmitting unit and said social community multimedia receiving unit is at least one of a real time location, a contact list, audio, video, or image.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the social community multimedia transmitting component automatically translates said multimedia into a format usable by a member of said social community prior to transmitting said multimedia to said user.

8. An interactive application system stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the system comprising:

a plurality of applications;

an interactive application component permitting said plurality of applications to interact and communicate with each other and a user according to the needs of said user, regardless of the platform of each of said plurality of applications;

a social profile generation component for generating an interactive user profile of said user based on monitoring said user'"'"'s interactions with one or more of said plurality of applications;

a social community discovery component for discovering social communities with interest common to said user based on said interactive user profile;

a social community creating component to generates a new social community based on said profile generated by said profile generation component, the creation of the new social community further being based in part upon interactions of a plurality of users using said plurality of applications; and

a social community registration component for registering said user with said social community.

9. The interactive application system of claim 8, wherein said plurality of applications are stored in a computer readable medium on one of a personal computer, mobile devices, or Internet protocol enabled entertainment device.

10. The interactive application system of claim 8, wherein said social community creating component generates said new social community based on interactive user profiles of said plurality of users and registers said plurality of users with said social community.

11. The interactive application system of claim 8, wherein said social community registration component is further capable of presenting to said user a list of social communities discovered by said social community discovery component and permitting the user to select which of said social communities said user wishes to register with.

12. The interactive application system of claim 8, further comprising:

a social community management component capable of determining which members of a social community are presently available and notifying said user of the availability of said members; and

wherein at least one of said plurality of applications is capable of interacting with an application of at least one of said members determined to be available by said social community management component.

13. The interactive application system of claim 12, wherein said social community registration component automatically registers said user with said social communities discovered by said social community registration component.

14. The interactive application system of claim 8, wherein said social community discovery component is further capable of discovering a social community based on a search instigated by said user.

15. The interactive application system of claim 8, wherein at least one of said social profile generation component, social community discovery component, and social community registration component is stored in a computer-readable medium on a network server.

16. A method for interacting with members of a social community, the method comprising:

generating an interactive profile of a user based on monitoring the applications and services said user interacts with;

searching for a social community compatible with said interactive user profile;

if a social community is not found, then generating a new social community based on said interactive profile and on interactions between said user and a plurality of users using a plurality of applications;

joining said social community; and

interacting with one or more members of said community through said plurality of applications regardless of the platform or network said applications are based on or located in.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said interacting step comprises a user transmitting multimedia to said one or more members.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising the step of translating said multimedia into a format capable of being read by said one or more members.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein said searching step is performed automatically by a mobile device belonging to said user.

20. The method of claim 16 wherein said searching step is performed by said user through either a mobile device or a web portal.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein said joining step comprises presenting said user with social communities discovered by said searching step and permitting said user to select which communities to join.