System and method of creating and rating items for social interactions

• US 9,232,018 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2013
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bond, Robert W., Jaffe, Stephen E., Loring, Keith P., McCulloch, Douglas J., Richards, Patrick J. Jr., Trevathan, Matthew B.
• Primary Examiner(s): PENG, HUAWEN A
• Application Number:
  US13/936,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20130297701A1
• Time in Patent Office: 911 Days
• Field of Search: 707/752
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A system and method for providing items to users and, more particularly, a system and method for rating items and placing such items into a queued list. The method includes providing an item from a web browser to a recipient on a preferred list and placing the item into a queued list with respect to other items based on a rating. The system includes a computer infrastructure being operable to provide a rated item from a web browser to a recipient on a preferred list and place the rated item in a queued list with respect to other items.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving at least one rated item of interest from a user; and

placing the at least one rated item of interest into a queued list with respect to existing items already in the queued list,

wherein the placing of the at least one rated item of interest into the queued list comprises;

comparing the at least one rated item of interest to the existing items already in the queued list;

determining one of;

the at least one rated item of interest is the same as any of the existing items, and the at least one rated item of interest is different from the existing items;

when the at least one rated item of interest is determined as the same as any of the existing items, resorting the queued list to reflect that the at least one rated item of interest has been received at least one additional time; and

when the at least one rated item of interest is determined as different from the existing items, resorting the queued list to include the at least one rated item based on a rating of the at least one rated item; and

wherein at least the step of the placing of the at least one rated item of interest into the queued list is performed using a processor of a computing device,

wherein the at least one additional time is a number of times that the at least one rated item was sent to at least one recipient,

wherein when the at least one rated item of interest is determined as the same as any of the existing items, resorting the queued list to reflect a combination of factors and that the at least one rated item of interest has been received the at least one additional time.

wherein when the at least one rated item of interest is determined as different from the existing items, resorting the queued list to include the at least one rated item based on the combination of factors and the rating of the at least one rated item, and

wherein the combination factors include a weight assigned to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the combination factors include a number of times the at least one rated item of interest has been read by other users.

3. A method comprising:

receiving at least one rated item of interest from a user on a computing device of a recipient;

placing the at least one rated item of interest into a queued list with respect to existing items already in the queued list;

analyzing a contacts list of the recipient to determine whether the contacts list includes any friends;

when the contacts list does not include any friends, removing the at least one rated item of interest from the queued list and resorting the queued list; and

when the contacts list does include friends, sending a message with the at least one rated item of interest to at least one of the friends in the contacts list, removing the at least one rated item of interest from the queued list, and resorting the queued list,

wherein the resorting the queued list comprises resorting existing items already in the queued list based on a combination of factors including a number of times that each of the existing items was received by the recipient, and

wherein the combination of factors further includes a weight assigned to a sender for each of the existing items received by the recipient and a number of times each of the existing items has been read by other users.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising marking the at least one rated item of interest as being read by the recipient, wherein the resorting the queued list comprises resorting existing items already in the queued list, which have not been marked as being read, based on at least a number of times that each of the existing items was received by the recipient.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the marking the at least one rated item of interest as being read by the recipient includes determining whether the at least one item of interest has been closed on the computing device of the recipient.

6. A computer system comprising:

a CPU, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage media;

program instructions to receive at least one rated item of interest from a user;

program instructions to place the at least one rated item of interest into a queued list with respect to existing items already in the queued list;

program instructions to analyze a contacts list of a recipient to determine whether the contacts list includes any friends;

program instructions to remove the at least one rated item of interest from the queued list and resort the queued list when the contacts list does not include any friends; and

program instructions to send a message with the at least one rated item of interest to at least one of the friends in the contacts list, remove the at least one rated item of interest from the queued list, and resort the queued list, when the contacts list does include friends,

wherein the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage media for execution by the CPU via the computer readable memory,

wherein the resorting the queued list comprises resorting existing items already in the queued list based on at least a number of times that each of the existing items was received by the recipient, and

wherein the resorting is further based on a weight assigned to a sender for each of the existing items received by the recipient and a number of times each of the existing items has been read by other users.

7. The system of claim 6, further comprising program instructions to mark the at least one rated item of interest as being read by the recipient, wherein the resorting the queued list comprises resorting existing items already in the queued list, which have not been marked as being read, based at least on a number of times that each of the existing items was received by the recipient.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the marking the at least one rated item of interest as being read by the recipient includes determining whether the at least one item of interest has been closed on the computer system.