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Automatic group assignment of users in a social network

  • US 9,462,004 B1
  • Filed: 11/02/2012
  • Issued: 10/04/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving attributes of a profile of a person with a person account in a social network;

    creating a plurality of groups associated with an entity account of an entity in the social network, wherein the person and the entity are users of the social network, and the entity is a different type of user than the person;

    upon determining that the person with the person account has started following the entity with the entity account, adding the person to one or more groups of the plurality of groups in the entity account based on the attributes, the attributes being authorized by the person for adding the person to the one or more groups, wherein each of the one or more groups is associated with defined properties for adding persons to each group; and

    distributing, by a processing device, messages created by the entity and addressed to the one or more groups to a stream of the person account.

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