System and method for facilitating a ready social network
First Claim
1. A method of facilitating ready social networking, comprising:
- obtaining from mobile telecommunication handsets and from mobile telecommunication network equipment, user activity data for a plurality of mobile telecommunication subscribers over a mobile telecommunication network, the user activity data comprising at least one of voice call records, Simple Messaging Service (SMS) records, and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) records;
collecting the user activity data centrally at an application server to form a ready social network of persons interacting with each other without actively seeking to form a social network;
mining at the application server the user activity data collected for each of the plurality of mobile telecommunication subscribers, to form clusters relevant for that mobile telecommunication subscriber;
providing at the application server an application programming interface (API) based on the user activity data available;
providing an application services module that provides a plurality of application services using said API, to the plurality of mobile telecommunication subscribers;
providing an user interface at each of the mobile telecommunication handsets to enable to access to said application services and said API through the mobile telecommunication handsets.
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Abstract
The invention provides system and method wherein the system collects user activity data including call log information from network equipment, handset and other context specific user activity data including time of call and location information to enable various applications to use the information collected and build social network. In accordance with the method of the invention, the user activity data collected is used to form individual social networks. The networks are formed based on clusters identified by mining the data collected. Furthermore, various applications are provided access to the clustered data to assist in individual social networking. The system of the invention comprises of an application server comprising a centralized data center providing social networking services through a plurality of networks, the networks in-turn connecting a plurality of users through their individual network terminal stations to the application server.
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1. A method of facilitating ready social networking, comprising:
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obtaining from mobile telecommunication handsets and from mobile telecommunication network equipment, user activity data for a plurality of mobile telecommunication subscribers over a mobile telecommunication network, the user activity data comprising at least one of voice call records, Simple Messaging Service (SMS) records, and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) records; collecting the user activity data centrally at an application server to form a ready social network of persons interacting with each other without actively seeking to form a social network; mining at the application server the user activity data collected for each of the plurality of mobile telecommunication subscribers, to form clusters relevant for that mobile telecommunication subscriber; providing at the application server an application programming interface (API) based on the user activity data available; providing an application services module that provides a plurality of application services using said API, to the plurality of mobile telecommunication subscribers; providing an user interface at each of the mobile telecommunication handsets to enable to access to said application services and said API through the mobile telecommunication handsets. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system facilitating ready social networking, comprising:
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a application server adapted to collect user activity data from a plurality of mobile telecommunication handsets and from mobile telecommunication network equipment wherein said user activity data comprises at least one of voice call records, Simple Messaging Service (SMS) records, and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) records, to analyze the user activity data collected to form clusters relevant for each of the plurality of mobile telecommunication subscribers, and to provide a ready social network API; an application services module that uses said API to provide a plurality of social networking services to the plurality of mobile telecommunication subscribers; the mobile telecommunication handsets adapted to communicate with said application services module and said API to enable access to a plurality of application services, to display information using a user interface (UI) module for selection, viewing and navigation, and to upload user activity data to said application server; and a network data loader to collect user activity data from the mobile telecommunication network equipment using a plurality of messaging service center (MSC) adaptors and to upload said user activity data to the application server. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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