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Apparatus and method for managing a social network

  • US 8,224,756 B2
  • Filed: 11/05/2009
  • Issued: 07/17/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • utilizing a processor for providing to a plurality of computing devices, an overlay combined with media content for presentation by each of the plurality of computing devices to illustrate one or more user-generated comments temporally associated with portions of the presented media content utilizing a time line and annotations along the time line that are representative of each of the one or more user-generated comments, wherein at least a portion of the one or more user-generated comments are shared among the plurality of computing devices;

    collecting at the processor, the one or more user-generated comments from the plurality of computing devices;

    utilizing the processor for detecting a correlation in the one or more user-generated comments collected from the plurality of computing devices;

    utilizing the processor for facilitating establishment of a social network that includes at least a subset of the plurality of computing devices according to the detected correlation;

    monitoring additional user-generated comments associated with the social network that are originated from the at least a subset of the plurality of computing devices;

    determining a decorrelation in the additional user-generated comments; and

    removing at least one computing device of the at least a subset of the plurality of computing devices from the social network based on the determined decorrelation without terminating the social network.

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