Filtering recorded interactions by age

• US 8,868,739 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2013
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Mallet, Vincent, Cheng, Jessica, Fiedel, Noah, Gillum, Eric William, Ramanarayanan, Ganesh, Woods, Nicholas James
• Primary Examiner(s): Lai, Michael C
• Application Number:
  US14/035,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20140068065A1
• Time in Patent Office: 392 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/224, 715/800, 705/14.66, 382/246, 376/247
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/17306 Intercommunication techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/287 Visualization; Browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/69 using geographic information, e.g. room number
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 : specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 : Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 : Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 : Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 : User group management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 : Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/186 : Processing of subscriber group data
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99935 : Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99954 : Version management

Abstract

Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. First, logical relationship information can be recorded, the logical relationship information describing logical relationships between a first user and other users, the logical relationship information associated with a social networking service. Communications between the first user and the other users, the communications being of at least two different types of communications, may be monitored. A first user group in which to add the first user is determined based on the logical relationship information, a first factor and a second factor, the first factor corresponding to a first of the different types of communications and the second factor corresponding to a second of the different types of communications, the determining including applying a first time-varying function to the first factor and a second time-varying function to the second factor to represent an effect of passage of time, the first time-varying function being different than the second time-varying function.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

recording logical relationship information, the logical relationship information describing logical relationships between a first user and other users, the logical relationship information associated with a social networking service;

monitoring communications between the first user and the other users, the communications being of at least two different types of communications;

determining, at a server using at least one processor, a first user group in which to add the first user based on the logical relationship information, a first factor and a second factor, the first factor corresponding to a first of the different types of communications and the second factor corresponding to a second of the different types of communications, the determining including applying a first time-varying function to the first factor and a second time-varying function to the second factor to represent an effect of passage of time, the first time-varying function being different than the second time-varying function; and

adding the first user to the first user group.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first or second of the different types of communications is one-on-one communications between the first user and another user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first or second of the different types of communications is content broadcast from the first user to the other users.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the first or second time-varying functions is exponential decay.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the first or second time-varying functions is asymptotic growth.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the first or second time-varying functions is decreasing ramp.

7. A system comprising:

at least one processor;

data storage comprising modules including instructions to be executed by the at least one processor, the modules comprising;

an interaction recording module configured to record logical relationship information, the logical relationship information describing logical relationships between a first user and other users, the logical relationship information associated with a social networking service, and to monitor communications between the first user and the other users, the communications being of at least two different types of communications;

a candidate scorer module configured to determine, at a server using at least one processor, a first user group in which to add the first user based on the logical relationship information, a first factor and a second factor, the first factor corresponding to a first of the different types of communications and the second factor corresponding to a second of the different types of communications, the determining including applying a first time-varying function to the first factor and a second time-varying function to the second factor to represent an effect of passage of time, the first time-varying function being different than the second time-varying function.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the first or second of the different types of communications is one-on-one communications between the first user and another user.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the first or second of the different types of communications is content broadcast from the first user to the other users.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein one of the first or second time-varying functions is exponential decay.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein one of the first or second time-varying functions is asymptotic growth.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein one of the first or second time-varying functions is decreasing ramp.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

recording logical relationship information, the logical relationship information describing logical relationships between a first user and other users, the logical relationship information associated with a social networking service;

monitoring communications between the first user and the other users, the communications being of at least two different types of communications;

determining, at a server using at least one processor, a first user group in which to add the first user based on the logical relationship information, a first factor and a second factor, the first factor corresponding to a first of the different types of communications and the second factor corresponding to a second of the different types of communications, the determining including applying a first time-varying function to the first factor and a second time-varying function to the second factor to represent an effect of passage of time, the first time-varying function being different than the second time-varying function; and

adding the first user to the first user group.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the first or second of the different types of communications is one-on-one communications between the first user and another user.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the first or second of the different types of communications is content broadcast from the first user to the other users.