Social-topical adaptive networking (STAN) system allowing for group based contextual transaction offers and acceptances and hot topic watchdogging

• US 8,676,937 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2012
• Issued: 03/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Jeffrey A. Rapaport
• Inventors: Rapaport, Seymour, Smith, Kenneth Allen, Beattie, James, Gimlan, Gideon, Rapaport, Jeffrey Alan
• Primary Examiner(s): DENNISON, JERRY B
• Application Number:
  US13/367,642
• Publication Number:
  US 20120290950A1
• Time in Patent Office: 770 Days
• Field of Search: 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8358 involving watermark protecting executable software by watermarking G06F21/16; image watermarking in general G06T1/0021; watermarks inserted in still images for transmission purposes H04N1/32144; inserting watermarks during video coding H04N19/467

Abstract

Disclosed is a Social-Topical Adaptive Networking (STAN) system that can inform users of cross-correlations between currently focused-upon topic or other nodes in a corresponding topic or other data-objects organizing space maintained by the system and various social entities monitored by the system. More specifically, one of the cross-correlations may be as between the top N now-hottest topics being focused-upon by a first social entity and the amounts of focus ‘heat’ that other social entities (e.g., friends and family) are casting on the same topics (or other subregions of other cognitive attention receiving spaces) in a relevant time period.

Claims

1. A machine-implemented method for enhancing a network using experience of a respective first user, the method comprising:

causing a plurality of machine-performed processes to occur with respect to the first user and with respect to a local data processing device which is currently accessible by the first user, where the local data processing device is operatively coupled to or includes as a part thereof of a network content displaying and/or otherwise presenting mechanism for displaying and/or otherwise locally presenting to the first user, content obtained from one or more electromagnetic communication based networks;

wherein the local data processing device is operatively coupled to and/or has executing within it, a corresponding one or more network browsing modules where at least one of the network browsing modules is configured to cause a presenting of browser generated content to the first user by way of the content presenting mechanism;

wherein the at least one network browsing module is configured to relay upload data to an associated network server thereof that is operatively coupled to a corresponding one of the networks and is disposed functionally upstream of the local data processing device in terms of a data uploading scheme that provides transmission of uploading data, the uploading transmission extending from the at least one network browsing module and upstream by way of the corresponding network to an associated network server module operative in the associated network server;

wherein the relayed upload data includes at least one of current focus indicator (CFi) data and data providing logical linkings as between plural ones of uploaded CFi data or as between uploaded CFi data and other uploaded data and where the relayed or logically-linked-to and uploaded CFi data indicates one or more attributes of automatically repeatedly monitored and recent attention giving activities of the first user,

the recent attention giving activities being ones whereby the first user recently gave focused attention to content presented by the local content presenting mechanism, and

the recent attention giving activities including at least one of;

a making of one or more facial expressions by the first user;

a making of body language gestures other than facial expressions by the first user;

a directing of the first user'"'"'s head in a particular direction;

a training or focusing or trajectory patterns of the first user'"'"'s eyes on or along with particular content presented by a content displaying device;

a change from steady state in eye based activities of the first user such as eyelid blink rate, eye dart rate, and pupil dilation pattern;

a wobbling, tilting, nodding, or shaking of the first user'"'"'s head in a particular fashion;

an inputting of touch-type or other device actuation inputs by the first user;

an inputting of device grip and/or device tilt and/or device jiggle manipulation by the first user;

a simultaneous combination of one or more body language gestures and input device actuations by the first user;

a change into an active listening mode from a passive or non-listening mode;

a change into an active odor detecting mode;

a change into a tensed muscles mode; and

a change of emotional or biometric state in apparent response to newly recognized content;

an activating or deactivating or moving of or shifting between use of different ones of identifiable and at hand resources by the first user such as a turning on of previously turned-off and at hand electrical devices and such as a moving by the first user of identifiable and at hand non-electrical objects;

an accepting of an invitation provided by the machine system or a pursuing of additional content suggested by the machine system and;

a deviation of significant magnitude from predetermined patterns of habits and routines of the first user;

wherein the automatically repeatedly monitored attention giving activities of the first user are transparently monitored by at least one of the machine-performed processes without need for diverting focusing of attention by the first user for aiding the at least one machine-performed process, where such diverted focusing of attention, if it hypothetically had occurred, would have been directed to aiding the determinations of what the recent attention giving activities of the first user are or recently were;

wherein the associated network server normally responds to non-CFi data uploaded thereto from the at least one network browsing module by responsively downloading corresponding and presentable content to the at least one network browsing module for presentation by way of the content presenting mechanism;

the plurality of caused and machine-performed processes of said machine-implemented method including, in addition to said at least one machine-performed process for automatically repeatedly monitoring attention giving activities of the first user;

causing the associated upstream network server to receive the relayed and uploaded data including the current focus indicator (CFi) data and/or the data providing logical linkings to CFi data that has been relayed thereto by the at least one network browsing module; and

causing the associated upstream network server to relay to a Social-Topical Adaptive Networking (STAN) system further-upstream-relayed CFi data corresponding at least to the current focus indicator (CFi) data and/or the data providing logical linkings forwarded to the STAN system from the associated upstream network server;

wherein the STAN system is configured to automatically determine one or more likely cognitive states of the first user based on the further-upstream-relayed current focus indicator (CFi) data relayed to the STAN system, the automatic determining of likely cognitive states being carried out by the STAN system without need for diverting centering of attention by the user directed to aiding the automatic determining by the STAN system of the likely cognitive states of the first user.

2. The experience enhancing method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of caused processes further include:

causing result data produced by the STAN system to be relayed downstream to at least one of;

the network server;

one or more of the network browsing modules;

the local data processing device;

wherein the produced result data includes at least one of;

an indication of significant correlation between likely cognitive states of the first user and nodes or subregions within one or more of communal Cognitions-representing Spaces maintained and dynamically updated by the STAN system;

an identification of, or a downstream relaying of, content and/or potential forum participation opportunities and/or forum participant information corresponding to the nodes or subregions within one or more of the communal Cognitions-representing Spaces that are determined by the STAN system to have significant correlation to the likely cognitive states of the first user.

3. The experience enhancing method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of caused processes further include:

causing, before the relaying thereof by the associated network server to the STAN system, an attachment of respective time of focus and/or screen location information to the current focus indicator data which is relayed by the at least one browsing module upstream to the network server, where the attached time of focus and/or screen location information is indicative of a respective time of focus-upon and/or of a respective screen location of respective content indicated to be focused-upon by the respective current focus indicator data; and

causing the STAN system to use the attached time of focus and/or screen location information to form a context-based hybrid clustering of received current focus indicators and chronological and/or spatial contexts associated therewith.

4. The experience enhancing method of claim 3 wherein the plurality of caused processes further include:

causing presentation to the first user of new content that is derived based on use of result data produced by the STAN system;

wherein the produced result data includes at least one of;

an indication of significant correlation between likely cognitive states of the first user and nodes or subregions within one or more of communal Cognitions-representing Spaces maintained and dynamically updated by the STAN system;

an identification of, or a downstream relaying of, content and/or potential forum participation opportunities and/or forum participant information corresponding to the nodes or subregions within one or more of the communal Cognitions-representing Spaces that are determined by the STAN system to have significant correlation to the likely cognitive states of the first user.

5. The experience enhancing method of claim 4 wherein the STAN system stores one or more pre-defined profiling models that model at least one of expressional behaviors, habits, routines, social dynamics behaviors, topic preferences and personhood attributes or co-compatibility preferences of the first user and wherein the plurality of caused processes further include:

causing a learning to take place within the STAN system based on an obtained reaction by the first user to the caused presentation of the new content, where the caused learning reinforces a pre-defined profiling model of the first user or detracts from the pre-defined profiling model of the first user.

6. A machine-implemented and automated process comprising:

providing experience-enhancing empowerment to a first user, where the first user has states and attention giving activities that can be automatically repeatedly and transparently monitored by one or more local devices having access to the first user and his/her respective expressings of clues respecting corresponding states and attention giving activities of the first user, the provided experience-enhancing empowerment being that which gives the first user choice rather than forcibly pushing experience-enhancing or other content onto the first user (other than presenting the first user with invitations or other user-acceptable but ignorable or hideable offerings) and the experience-enhancing empowerment enabling for reporting signals representing transparently and automatically repeatedly monitored states and/or activities of that first user to be sent to, received by and/or recognized by a remote Social-Topical Adaptive Networking (STAN) system which is not neighboring and thus remote from the local devices and where such received and/or recognized reporting signals induce an automated carrying out in the remote Social-Topical Adaptive Networking (STAN) system of an automated informational resource lookup operation on behalf of the first user where the STAN system stores one or more hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Spaces each having corresponding points, nodes or subregions representing a hybridization of points, nodes or subregions of at least two further Cognitive Attention Receiving Spaces that are also stored in the STAN system and where the automated informational resource lookup operation includes one or more of;

(a) an automatic determining of one or more likely current contexts of the first user;

(b) based on the said automatically determined or on an otherwise predetermined one or more likely current contexts, an automatic determining of one or more currently activated profiles that are currently to be used for the first user;

(c) based on the currently activated one or more profiles and on state and/or activities reporting signals then received for the first user, where for the case of this paragraph, the reporting signals report attention giving activities of the user and/or report recent physical context and/or report biometric states of the user, automatically identifying one or more points, nodes or subregions of a hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Space to be pointed-to as corresponding to at least one of the currently activated profiles and the reporting signals;

(d) based on recently pointed-to parts of the hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Space as pointed on behalf of the first user, automatically identifying one or more informational resource signals to be transmitted to the first user for thereby providing experience-enhancing empowerment to the first user, where the informational resource signals can represent at least one of;

invitations to join chat or other online forum participation sessions, invitations to join real life (ReL) or virtual life events related to the pointed-to parts of the hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Space, suggestions to connect with one or more identified other users in regard to the pointed-to parts of the hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Space, and suggestions to access one or more identified data resources in regard to the pointed-to parts of the hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Space;

wherein the attention giving activities include at least one of;

a making of one or more facial expressions by the first user;

a making of body language gestures other than facial expressions by the first user;

a directing of the first user'"'"'s head in a particular direction;

a training or focusing or trajectory patterns of the first user'"'"'s eyes on or along with particular content presented by a content displaying device;

a change from steady state in eye based activities of the first user such as eyelid blink rate, eye dart rate, and pupil dilation pattern;

a wobbling, tilting, nodding, or shaking of the first user'"'"'s head in a particular fashion;

an inputting of touch-type or other device actuation inputs by the first user;

an inputting of device grip and/or device tilt and/or device jiggle manipulation by the first user;

a simultaneous combination of one or more body language gestures and input device actuations by the first user;

a change into an active listening mode from a passive or non-listening mode;

a change into an active odor detecting mode;

a change into a tensed muscles mode; and

a change of emotional or biometric state in apparent response to newly recognized content;

an activating or deactivating or moving of or shifting between use of different ones of identifiable and at hand resources by the first user such as a turning on of previously turned-off and at hand electrical devices and such as a moving by the first user of identifiable and at hand non-electrical objects;

an accepting of an invitation provided by the machine system or a pursuing of additional content suggested by the machine system and;

a deviation of significant magnitude from predetermined patterns of habits and routines of the first user; and

wherein the experience-enhancing empowerment includes;

carrying out said automated informational resource lookup operation on behalf of the first user; and

providing the first user with one or more informational resources based on the automated informational resource lookup operation.

19. The process of claim 6 and further wherein:

the automated informational resource lookup operation includes one or more of;

(a) an automatic determining of one or more likely current contexts of a second user;

(b) based on the said automatically determined or on an otherwise predetermined one or more likely current contexts of the second user, an automatic determining of one or more currently activated profiles that are currently to be used for the second user;

(c) based on the currently activated one or more profiles and on state and/or activities reporting signals then received for the second user, where for the case of this paragraph, the reporting signals report attention giving activities of the second user and/or report recent physical context and/or report biometric states of the second user, automatically identifying one or more points, nodes or subregions of a hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Space to be pointed-to as corresponding to at least one of the currently activated profiles and the reporting signals of the second user;

(d) based on recently pointed-to parts of the hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Space as pointed on behalf of the second user, automatically identifying one or more informational resource signals to be transmitted to the second user for thereby providing an experience-enhancing empowerment to the second user, where the informational resource signals can represent at least one of;

invitations to the second user to join chat or other online forum participation sessions, invitations to the second user to join real life (ReL) or virtual life events related to the pointed-to parts of the hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Space, suggestions to the second user to connect with one or more identified other users in regard to the pointed-to parts of the hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Space, and suggestions to the second user to access one or more identified data resources in regard to the pointed-to parts of the hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Space;

(e) based on sameness or closeness of the respective recently pointed-to parts within at least one of the one or more hybrid Cognitive Attention Receiving Spaces that are respectively pointed to on behalf of the first and second users, generating a desirability of joinder score indicating how desirable it is to automatically suggest to both of the first and second users that they join into a common online forum participation session and/or into a common real life (ReL) or virtual life event.

20. The process of claim 19 wherein:

the common real life (ReL) event, if suggested, is at least one of;

a group discount transactional event;

a promotional offering event;

a customized promotional offering event;

an eating experience;

a drinking experience;

a business meeting;

a sports event;

a conference;

a shared multi-media experience; and

a resources using event in which physical resources of a shared physical location are to be used.

21. The process of claim 19 wherein:

the common online forum participation session or common virtual life event, if suggested, is at least one of;

a group discount transactional event;

a promotional offering transaction;

a customized promotional offering transaction;

a group expansion transaction which seeks to increase or increases the size of the group;

a business meeting;

a conference;

a shared multi-media experience; and

a resources using event in which resources of a shared virtual resources provider are to be used.

7. A machine-implemented, non-abstract and automated process that provides for adaptive social networking between plural users of a machine system, where the machine system is used in implementing the process and where the process comprises:

empowering a first user and/or one or more data processing devices proximate to the first user to cause one or more other data processors of the machine system, which other data processors are operatively coupled to the one or more proximate devices, to home in on one or more of at least one plurality of points, nodes or subregions in a maintained one of plural Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces maintained by the machine system, where the homed-in on points, nodes or subregions are ones determined by the machine system to more likely than others cross-correlate to apparent individualized current cognitions of the first user,

wherein the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces include a Context Space whose points, nodes or subregions include ones representing different user-adoptable roles;

wherein said empowering includes machine-implemented identification of the first user;

wherein said system-maintained plural Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces each includes stored data-objects representing hierarchically and/or spatially organized at least one plurality of points, nodes or subregions and wherein the hierarchical and/or spatial organizations in the respective Communal Cognitions-representing Space of at least one plurality of the points, nodes or subregions thereof are determined and are modifiable, at least in part, by over-a-network reported actions of a corresponding community formed by at least a subset of the plural users of the machine system; and

wherein the empowering of the first user includes;

automatically repeatedly carrying out one or more automated informational resource lookup operations on behalf of the first user without need for diverting focusing of attention by the first user for aiding the one or more automated informational resource lookup operations, at least one of the automated informational resource lookup operations being based on an identifying by the machine system of a likely context of the first user among plural contexts represented by the points, nodes or subregions of the Context Space; and

providing the first user with an opportunity to access one or more informational resources identified by the machine system based on the one or more automated informational resource lookup operations.

8. The automated process of claim 7 and further wherein:

the stored data-objects of one or more of the plural Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces further include cognitive-sense-representing clustering center points (COGS'"'"'s) that are hierarchically and/or spatially organized relative to a corresponding one or more of the points, nodes or subregions of the respective one or more Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces; and

the automated process uses a calculated hierarchical and/or spatial distance between a given clustering center point (COGS) and one or more points, nodes or subregions that are hierarchically and/or spatially disposed in a neighborhood of the COGS to automatically determine how substantially same or similar the one or more points, nodes or subregions in an underlying cognitive sense to a cognitive sense represented by the given clustering center point.

9. The automated process of claim 7 and further wherein:

the stored data-objects of one or more of the plural Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces include hierarchically and/or spatially clustered together ones of points, nodes or subregions of the respective one or more Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces; and

the automated process uses a calculated hierarchical and/or spatial distance between the hierarchically and/or spatially clustered together ones of points, nodes or subregions of a respective Communal Cognitions-representing Space to automatically determine how substantially same or similar the one or more points, nodes or subregions in an underlying cognitive sense are to one another.

10. The automated process of claim 7 and further wherein aside from the Context Space, the plural Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces of the machine system include at least two of:

a topics mapping space;

a recently focused-upon sub-portions of-content mapping space;

a keywords mapping space;

a URLs mapping space;

a meta-tags mapping space; and

a hybrid mapping space whose points, nodes or subregions logically link to respective points, nodes or subregions in at least two other Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces of the machine system.

11. The automated process of claim 10 wherein at least a respective one of the points, nodes or subregions (PNOS'"'"'s) of at least one of the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces includes data identifying at least one of:

chat or other forum participation opportunities and/or sessions that are currently strongly tethered by respective scored logical tethering links to the respective PNOS;

a ranked set of keyword expressions that are currently strongly linked by respective scored logical links to the respective PNOS;

a ranked set of URL expressions that are currently strongly linked by respective scored logical links to the respective PNOS;

a ranked set of meta-data expressions that are currently strongly linked by respective scored logical links to the respective PNOS;

a ranked set of user context definitions that are currently strongly linked by respective scored logical links to the respective PNOS;

a ranked set of expert user identifications that are currently strongly linked by respective scored logical links to the respective PNOS;

a ranked set of influential user identifications that are currently strongly linked by respective scored logical links to the respective PNOS;

a ranked set of first other points, nodes or subregions in respective Cognitions-representing Space of the respective PNOS that are currently strongly linked by respective scored logical links to the respective PNOS, where the first other points include hierarchical children of the respective PNOS; and

a ranked set of second other points, nodes or subregions in another Cognitions-representing Space that are currently strongly linked by respective scored logical links to the respective PNOS.

12. The automated process of claim 10 wherein at least a respective one of the points, nodes or subregions (PNOS'"'"'s) of at least one of the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces includes data identifying at least one of:

a hierarchical location within a corresponding hierarchical organizing scheme of the respective Cognitions-representing Space where the respective PNOS is located;

a spatial location within a corresponding spatial organizing scheme of the respective Cognitions-representing Space where the respective PNOS is located;

a unique serial number or other unique identification assigned to the respective PNOS;

a version time and date assigned to the respective PNOS;

a currently dead or alive status assigned to the respective PNOS;

a respective hierarchical and/or spatial anchor factor currently assigned to the respective PNOS for indicating a respective anchoring strength at the corresponding hierarchical and/or spatial locations of the respective PNOS in the corresponding hierarchical and/or spatial location where it is deemed to be located;

an identification of one or more governance bodies currently empowered to modify one or more attributes of the respective PNOS including its hierarchical location or its spatial location or its respective hierarchical and/or spatial anchor factors or other attributes of the respective PNOS.

13. The automated process of claim 7 and further wherein the respective points, nodes or subregions (PNOS'"'"'s) of at least one of the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces of the machine system are distributed among:

a primitives portion that contains primitive ones of the PNOS'"'"'s; and

a composites portion that contains operator nodes which each define a composite point, node or subregion based on two or more of the primitive PNOS'"'"'s contained in the primitives portion.

14. The automated process of claim 13 wherein:

the primitive ones of the PNOS'"'"'s include at least one of;

a textual expression primitive object;

a topic primitive object;

a music primitive object;

a sound primitive object;

a voice primitive object;

a context primitive object;

an image primitive object;

an anatomy and movement primitive object;

a biological state primitive object; and

a reactive chemical mixture primitive object.

15. The automated process of claim 7 wherein said empowering of the first user and/or the one or more proximate devices to cause said homing-in-on includes:

empowering one or more of the proximate devices to automatically repeatedly and transparently transmit to the one or more data processors of the machine system, current focus indicator signals (CFi'"'"'s) that indicate current activities and/or current states of the first user.

16. The automated process of claim 15 wherein the indicated current activities and/or current states of the first user include at least one of:

a current location of the first user in real life (ReL) and/or in a virtual space;

a current time zone and/or date zone of the first user in real life (ReL) and/or in a virtual space;

a current pre-scheduled activities state of the first user;

identifications of other personas currently surrounding the first user in a potentially current attention giving way and/or in a near future interaction capability way;

a current other-contextual state of the first user;

a current biometric state of the first user;

current sub-portions of available content that are apparently being focused-upon by the first user; and

at least one of keywords, URL'"'"'s and/or meta-tags that are logically linked to the current sub-portions of available content that are apparently being focused-upon by the first user.

17. The automated process of claim 15 wherein the one or more other data processors of the machine system provide a CFi'"'"'s clustering function that clusters together on a trial and error basis, different permutations of information provided on behalf of the first user by recently received CFi signals associated with the first user.

18. The automated process of claim 7 wherein said other data processors of the machine system define a chunky granularity cloud system having a plurality of data centers whose resources are primarily but not exclusively dedicated to servicing system users of respective different geographic zones, where the plural data centers can be used to back one another up in case one of the data centers becomes inoperable or overwhelmed with service requests, but where the data centers are not all identical, one to the next in terms of locally stored data, but rather where some of the data centers store locally significant data not stored at others of the data centers, the locally significant data including data representing locally significant points, nodes or subregions in the maintained one or more of the plural Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces maintained by the machine system.

22. The automated process of claim 7 wherein the process further comprises:

empowering a second user and/or one or more data processing devices proximate to the second user to cause one or more other data processors of the machine system, which other data processors are operatively coupled to the one or more proximate devices of the second user, to home in on one or more of at least one plurality of points, nodes or subregions in a maintained one of the plural Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces maintained by the machine system, where the homed-in on points, nodes or subregions are ones determined by the machine system to more likely than others cross-correlate to apparent individualized current cognitions of the second user; and

based on sameness or closeness of the respective recently pointed-to parts within at least one of the one or more Cognitive Attention Receiving Spaces that are respectively pointed to on behalf of the first and second users, generating a desirability of joinder score indicating how desirable it is to automatically suggest to both of the first and second users that they join into a common online forum participation session and/or into a common real life (ReL) or virtual life event.

23. The automated process of claim 22 wherein the common real life (ReL) event, if suggested, is at least one of:

a group discount transactional event;

a promotional offering event;

a customized promotional offering event;

an eating experience;

a drinking experience;

a business meeting;

a sports event;

a conference;

a shared multi-media experience; and

a resources using event in which physical resources of a shared physical location are to be used.

24. The process of claim 22 wherein:

the common online forum participation session or common virtual life event, if suggested, is at least one of;

a group discount transactional event;

a promotional offering transaction;

a customized promotional offering transaction;

a group expansion transaction which seeks to increase or increases the size of the group;

a business meeting;

a conference;

a shared multi-media experience; and

a resources using event in which resources of a shared virtual resources provider are to be used.

25. A machine-implemented, non-abstract and automated process that automatically cross-correlates between likely individual cognitions of an individual first user and corresponding machine representations of communal cognition points, nodes or subregions in a plurality of machine-stored and machine-updated Cognitions-representing Spaces, where the process comprises:

(a) transparently and automatically repeatedly monitoring current activities of the first user and attributes of the first user'"'"'s current surroundings;

(b) automatically generating current focus indicator signals (CFi'"'"'s) that represent respective and temporally adjacent ones of said monitorings of the current activities of the first user and of the attributes of the first user'"'"'s current surroundings;

(c) automatically relaying the generated CFi'"'"'s to a machine-implemented Social-Topical Adaptive Networking (STAN) system that stores and automatically updates a plurality of Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces, wherein the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces each include data representing points, nodes or subregions to which corresponding ones of the likely individual cognitions of the monitored first user can be correlated;

wherein the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces include a Context Space whose points, nodes or subregions include ones representing different user-adoptable roles or user performable activities that are respectively adoptable and performable by the first user;

wherein said empowering includes machine-implemented identification of the first user;

wherein the relayed CFi'"'"'s are usable by the STAN system for cross-correlating between the likely individual cognitions of the first user and corresponding ones of the points, nodes or subregions of two or more of the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces maintained by the STAN system;

the two or more of the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces including said Context Space;

wherein the monitored current activities include at least one of;

a making of one or more facial expressions by the first user;

a making of body language gestures other than facial expressions by the first user;

a directing of the first user'"'"'s head in a particular direction;

a training or focusing or trajectory patterns of the first user'"'"'s eyes on or along with particular content presented by a content displaying device;

a change from steady state in eye based activities of the first user such as eyelid blink rate, eye dart rate, and pupil dilation pattern;

a wobbling, tilting, nodding, or shaking of the first user'"'"'s head in a particular fashion;

an inputting of touch-type or other device actuation inputs by the first user;

an inputting of device grip and/or device tilt and/or device jiggle manipulation by the first user;

a simultaneous combination of one or more body language gestures and input device actuations by the first user;

a change into an active listening mode from a passive or non-listening mode;

a change into an active odor detecting mode;

a change into a tensed muscles mode; and

a change of emotional or biometric state in apparent response to newly recognized content;

an activating or deactivating or moving of or shifting between use of different ones of identifiable and at hand resources by the first user such as a turning on of previously turned-off and at hand electrical devices and such as a moving by the first user of identifiable and at hand non-electrical objects;

an accepting of an invitation provided by the machine system or a pursuing of additional content suggested by the machine system acid;

a deviation of significant magnitude from predetermined patterns of habits and routines of the first user; and

wherein the empowering includes;

an automatically repeated carrying out by the machine system of one or more automated informational resource lookup operations on behalf of the first user; and

providing the first user with an opportunity to access one or more informational resources identified by the machine system based on the automated informational resource lookup operations.

26. The machine-implemented process of claim 25 wherein:

the Context Space has stored therein, a plurality of context primitive objects (CPO'"'"'s) each specifying at least one of;

a formal name of a role the corresponding CPO is associated with;

a formal activity the corresponding CPO is associated with;

one or more expected performances for a role or activity the corresponding CPO is associated with;

one or more expected topics that are cross-correlated to a role or activity the corresponding CPO is associated with;

one or more expected demographic attributes that are cross-correlated to a role or activity the corresponding CPO is associated with; and

one or more forums that are cross-correlated to a role or activity the corresponding CPO is associated with.

27. The machine-implemented process of claim 25 wherein:

the Context Space has further stored therein, at least one operator node object that links to two or more of the context primitive objects (CPO'"'"'s) for thereby defining a respective combined contexts object formed of a corresponding combination of two or more context primitive objects (CPO'"'"'s).

28. The machine-implemented process of claim 25 wherein:

the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces further include an Emotion and/or Behavioral States Space whose points, nodes or subregions include ones representing different user-adoptable emotions or behavioral states that are respectively adoptable and attainable by the first user; and

the relayed CFi'"'"'s are usable by the STAN system for cross-correlating between the likely individual cognitions of the first user and corresponding ones of the points, nodes or subregions of two or more of the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces maintained by the STAN system;

the two or more of the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces including the Emotion and/or Behavioral States Space.

29. The machine-implemented process of claim 28 wherein:

the Emotion and/or Behavioral States Space has stored therein, a plurality of physiological, biological and/or medical condition/state representing primitive objects (PBMCSRO'"'"'s) each specifying at least one of;

a condition name the corresponding PBMCSRO is associated with;

a condition degree the corresponding PBMCSRO is associated with;

a demographic frequency the corresponding PBMCSRO is associated with;

one or more expected topics that are cross-correlated to the corresponding PBMCSRO;

a pre-specified emotion the corresponding PBMCSRO is associated with;

a pre-specified body portion the corresponding PBMCSRO is associated with; and

points, nodes or subregions in others of the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces that the corresponding PBMCSRO is associated with.

30. The machine-implemented process of claim 25 wherein:

the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces further include a Topic Space whose points, nodes or subregions include ones representing different topics that the first user may center attention on; and

the relayed CFi'"'"'s are usable by the STAN system for cross-correlating between the likely individual cognitions of the first user and corresponding ones of the points, nodes or subregions of two or more of the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces maintained by the STAN system;

the two or more of the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces including the Topic Space.

31. The machine-implemented process of claim 30 wherein:

the Topic Space has stored therein, a plurality of topic primitive objects (TPO'"'"'s) each specifying at least one of;

a hierarchical and/or spatial position of the corresponding TPO within a respective topical hierarchy and a respective topical spatial framework;

a unique serial number or other such unique identifier of the corresponding TPO;

two or more sorted lists each sorted according to a different sorting algorithm and each listing links to respective specifications that specify a primitive topic associated with the corresponding TPO;

two or more sorted lists each sorted according to a different sorting algorithm and each listing links to respective keywords or points, nodes or subregions in a Keyword Space that are associated with the corresponding TPO;

two or more sorted lists each sorted according to a different sorting algorithm and each listing links to respective URL'"'"'s or points, nodes or subregions in a URL Space that are associated with the corresponding TPO; and

two or more sorted lists each sorted according to a different sorting algorithm and each listing respective points, nodes or subregions in the Context Space that are associated with the corresponding TPO.

32. The machine-implemented process of claim 25 wherein:

the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces further includes one or more Additional Cognitions Spaces whose respective points, nodes or subregions include ones representing additional cognitions that the first user may have in addition to that regarding a currently perceived context under which the first user is operating; and

the one or more Additional Cognitions Spaces each having stored therein, a respective plurality of cognition primitive objects representing a respective at least one of;

textually-expressible cognitions;

visually-experienced cognitions;

auditorially-experienced cognitions;

olfactorally-experienced cognitions;

haptically-experienced cognitions;

linguistically-experienced cognitions;

biological-state-wise experienced cognitions;

social-dynamics-wise experienced cognitions; and

a hybrid of at least two different kinds of user experienceable or user-expressible cognitions.

33. The machine-implemented process of claim 32 wherein:

the cognition primitive objects of a respective at least one of the Additional Cognitions Spaces each have a respective spatial attribute whereby closely related ones of such cognition primitive objects can be correspondingly clustered close to one another by using the respective spatial attribute to indicate respective spatial closeness or distance between correspondingly more close and less close ones of the spatially clustered cognition primitive objects.

34. The machine-implemented process of claim 25 and further comprising:

(d) transparently and automatically repeatedly monitoring current activities of a second user and attributes of the second user'"'"'s current surroundings;

(e) automatically generating current focus indicator signals (CFi'"'"'s) that represent respective and temporally adjacent ones of said monitorings of the current activities of the second user and of the attributes of the second user'"'"'s current surroundings;

(f) automatically relaying the generated CFi'"'"'s to the machine-implemented Social-Topical Adaptive Networking (STAN) system, wherein the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces each include data representing points, nodes or subregions to which corresponding ones of the likely individual cognitions of the monitored second user can be correlated;

wherein the points, nodes or subregions of the Context Space include ones representing different user-adoptable roles or user performable activities that are respectively adoptable and performable by the second user;

(g) using the respective CFi'"'"'s of the first and second users, automatically and respectively pointing to respective parts within at least one of the one or more Cognitive Attention Receiving Spaces that respectively correspond to the respective CFi'"'"'s of the first and second users; and

(h) based on sameness or closeness of the respective recently pointed-to parts within at least one of the one or more Cognitive Attention Receiving Spaces that are respectively pointed to on behalf of the first and second users, generating a desirability of joinder score indicating how desirable it is to automatically suggest to both of the first and second users that they join into a common online forum participation session and/or into a common real life (ReL) or virtual life event.

35. The machine-implemented process of claim 34 wherein the common real life (ReL) event, if suggested, is at least one of:

a group discount transactional event;

a promotional offering event;

a customized promotional offering event;

an eating experience;

a drinking experience;

a business meeting;

a sports event;

a conference;

a shared multi-media experience; and

a resources using event in which physical resources of a shared physical location are to be used.

36. The process of claim 34 wherein:

the common online forum participation session or common virtual life event, if suggested, is at least one of;

a group discount transactional event;

a promotional offering transaction;

a customized promotional offering transaction;

a group expansion transaction which seeks to increase or increases the size of the group;

a business meeting;

a conference;

a shared multi-media experience; and

a resources using event in which resources of a shared virtual resources provider are to be used.

37. A machine-implemented, non-abstract and automated process that automatically provides a first user with information based on use of machine stored representations of communal cognition points, nodes or subregions in a plurality of machine-stored and machine-updated Cognitions-representing Spaces, where the process comprises:

(a) causing an automatic determining of what kinds of information are probably currently useful for the first user based on automatically repeated determinations of probable contexts of the first user; and

(b) causing an automated using of the determined kinds of information in combination with an automated using of the machine-implemented Social-Topical Adaptive Networking (STAN) system to automatically provide the first user with said information,

wherein the STAN system is one that stores and automatically updates a plurality of Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces, wherein the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces each include data representing points, nodes or subregions of communal cognitions that can be matched to current likely individual cognitions such as those of the first user;

wherein the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces include a Context Space whose points, nodes or subregions include ones representing different user-adoptable roles or user performable activities that are respectively adoptable and performable by the first user and where automatically repeated determinations of probable contexts of the first user use the Context Space as a resource for determining one or more probable contexts of the first user;

wherein the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces further includes one or more Additional Cognitions Spaces whose respective points, nodes or subregions include ones representing additional cognitions that the first user may have in addition to that regarding a currently perceived context under which the first user may be operating.

38. The machine-implemented process of claim 37 and further comprising:

(c) causing an automatic determining of what kinds of second information are probably currently useful for a second user;

(d) causing an automated using of the determined kinds of second information of the second user in combination with an automated using of the machine-implemented Social-Topical Adaptive Networking (STAN) system to automatically provide the second user with said second information; and

(e) causing an automated determination of commonality as between the first and second users based on sameness or closeness of respective parts of the Communal Cognitions-representing Spaces that are accessed respectively on behalf of the first and second users.

39. The machine-implemented process of claim 38 and further comprising:

based on the automated determination of commonality as between the first and second users, causing a generating of a desirability of joinder score indicating how desirable it is to automatically suggest to both of the first and second users that they join into a common online forum participation session and/or into a common real life (ReL) or virtual life event.

40. The machine-implemented process of claim 39 wherein the common real life (ReL) event, if suggested, is at least one of:

a group discount transactional event;

a promotional offering event;

a customized promotional offering event;

an eating experience;

a drinking experience;

a business meeting;

a sports event;

a conference;

a shared multi-media experience; and

a resources using event in which physical resources of a shared physical location are to be used.

41. The process of claim 39 wherein:

the common online forum participation session or common virtual life event, if suggested, is at least one of;

a group discount transactional event;

a promotional offering transaction;

a customized promotional offering transaction;

a group expansion transaction which seeks to increase or increases the size of the group;

a business meeting;

a conference;

a shared multi-media experience; and

a resources using event in which resources of a shared virtual resources provider are to be used.