Notifying content owners of related posts

• US 9,325,653 B1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Zunger, Yonatan, Peterson, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): Stevens, Robert
• Application Number:
  US13/836,832
• Time in Patent Office: 1,138 Days
• Field of Search: 707/722
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2458 Special types of queries, e.g. statistical queries, fuzzy queries or distributed queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• 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: G06F 7/24 Sorting, i.e. extracting data from one or more carriers, rearranging the data in numerical or other ordered sequence, and rerecording the sorted data on the original carrier or on a different carrier or set of carriers sorting methods in generalG06F7/36 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1813 for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• 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 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

In one aspect, a method is provided, including the following method operations: receiving a request to generate a post data item at a first location, the post data item including a reference to a content item located at a second location; accessing a notification tag associated with the content item, the notification tag identifying a destination for notification; and sending a notification to the destination, the notification identifying the post data item.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a request to generate a post data item at a first location, the post data item including a reference to a content item located at a second location;

determining whether the post data item at the first location is a public post data item or a private post data item;

when the post data item is a public post data item;

accessing a notification tag associated with the content item, the notification tag identifying a destination for notification;

sending, by a processor, a notification to the destination, the notification identifying that the content item at the second location has been referenced in the post data item at the first location; and

when the post data item is a private post data item;

determining to not send a notification.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein the first location is defined by a social network page;

wherein the second location is defined by a content page; and

wherein the social network page and the content page do not share a common domain.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the destination is defined by one or more of an e-mail address, a username, or a user identifier on a social network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification provides access to a moderation interface for approving or disapproving the post data item for display at the second location.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference to the content item is a URL.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the content item is selected from an image, video, audio, or text.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the post data item at the second location in a stream of post data items configured to aggregate post data items referencing the content item from multiple locations.

8. A method, comprising:

receiving a request from a first user to generate a post data item for display on a first property, the post data item including a reference to a content item located on a second property;

determining whether the post data item for display on the first property is a public post data item or a private post data item;

when the post data item is a public post data item;

identifying an owner to be notified when the content item is shared in the post data item based on the request, wherein identifying the owner includes performing a look-up in a registry, the registry defining a correlation between the reference and the identified owner;

generating, by a processor, a notification to the owner, the notification identifying that the content item at the second property has been referenced in the post data item at the first property; and

when the post data item is a private post data item;

determining to not generate a notification.

9. The method of claim 8,

wherein the first property is defined by a social network;

and

wherein the second property is not defined by the social network.

10. The method of claim 8,

wherein the first property is defined by a first web page;

wherein the second property is defined by a second web page;

wherein the first web page and the second web page do not share a common domain.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the reference to the content item is a URL.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein identifying the owner includes identifying an address of the owner to which the notification is sent.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein generating the notification includes one or more of sending an e-mail notification to the owner or sending a mobile push notification to the owner.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the content item is selected from an image, video, audio, or text.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein the notification provides access to a moderation interface for approving or disapproving the post data item for display on the second property.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request to generate a post data item at a first location, the post data item including a reference to a content item located at a second location;

determining whether the post data item at the first location is a public post data item or a private post data item;

when the post data item is a public post data item;

accessing a notification tag associated with the content item, the notification tag identifying a destination for notification;

sending a notification to the destination, the notification identifying that the content item at the second location has been referenced in the post data item at the first location; and

when the post data item is a private post data item;

determining to not send a notification.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16,

wherein the first location is defined by a social network page;

wherein the second location is defined by a content page; and

wherein the social network page and the content page do not share a common domain.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the destination is defined by one or more of an e-mail address or a username.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the notification provides access to a moderation interface for approving or disapproving the post data item for display at the second location.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the reference to the content item is a URL.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the content item is selected from an image, video, audio, or text.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise providing the post data item at the second location in a stream of post data items configured to aggregate post data items referencing the content item from multiple locations.