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Populating online forums

  • US 8,706,813 B2
  • Filed: 02/14/2012
  • Issued: 04/22/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for managing an online service in which users interact with each other, the method comprising:

  • creating a first forum having multiple instances thereof, wherein a first user is a current member of a particular instance of the first forum;

    creating a second forum having multiple instances thereof, wherein a second user is a current member of a particular instance of the second forum;

    receiving a request from the second user to join the first forum;

    finding the first user in a cache of users who have recently moved to the first forum from the particular instance of the second forum and identifying an interaction that occurred between the first and second users at a time when the first user was a member of the particular instance of the second forum; and

    in response to identification of the interaction and the request from the second user, placing the second user in the particular instance of the first forum.

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