Unified filtered social media content stream for single user interface access

• US 9,857,950 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2014
• Issued: 01/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bostick, James E., Ganci, Jr., John M., Starks, Kimberly G., Trim, Craig M.
• Primary Examiner(s): TRAPANESE, WILLIAM C
• Application Number:
  US14/223,264
• Publication Number:
  US 20150271230A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,380 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers

Abstract

A system, method and program product are provided for system for processing a set of social media (SM) streams. A system is disclosed that includes: a user interface for selecting the set of SM streams and for inputting a set of filtering definitions; a stream unification system that creates a single unified stream from the set of SM streams; a content filtering system that selects relevant content items from the single unified stream based on the set of filtering definitions and generates a unified filtered SM stream using selected content items; and an output system that outputs the unified filtered SM stream to a user display.

Claims

1. A system comprising a processor for processing a set of social media (SM) streams, comprising:

a user interface for selecting a plurality of different SM streams, the selected plurality of different SM streams forming the set of SM streams, and for entering a username and password for each different SM stream;

a stream unification system that creates a single unified stream by interleaving the set of SM streams;

a content filtering system that selects relevant content items from the single unified stream based on a plurality of filtering definitions inputted via the user interface and generates a unified filtered SM stream for each filtering definition in the plurality of filtering definitions using selected content items, wherein each filtering definition includes a time period during which the unified filtered SM stream is to be displayed; and

an output system that outputs each unified filtered SM stream to a user display, the output system;

generating a portal page;

displaying a separate window on the portal page for each unified filtered SM stream, each window displaying a respective unified filtered SM stream on the portal page only for the time period included in the filtering definition used to generate the unified filtered SM stream, the output system adding the window to the portal page at a start of the time period and removing the window from the portal page at an end of the time period; and

displaying an advertising banner on the portal page, the advertising banner displaying advertising content based on the plurality of filtering definitions inputted via the user interface.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the content filtering system includes a natural language processor for analyzing language content extracted from the single unified stream.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the content filtering system selects relevant content items based on keywords provided by the filtering definitions.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the filtering system further employs lemmatization to group together different inflected forms of a keyword.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the user display comprises a smart device.

6. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, which when executed by a computer system, processes a set of social media (SM) streams, comprising:

program code to provide a user interface for selecting a plurality of different SM streams, the selected plurality of different SM streams forming the set of SM streams, and for entering a username and password for each different SM stream;

program code that creates a single unified stream by interleaving the set of SM streams;

program code that selects relevant content items from the single unified stream based on a plurality of filtering definitions inputted via the user interface and generates a unified filtered SM stream for each filtering definition in the plurality of filtering definitions using selected content items, wherein each filtering definition include a future time period during which the unified filtered SM stream is to be generated and

program code that outputs each unified filtered SM stream to a user display, the program code that outputs each unified filtered SM stream;

generating a portal page;

displaying a separate window on the portal page for each unified filtered SM stream, each window displaying a respective unified filtered SM stream on the portal page only for the time period included in the filtering definition used to generate the unified filtered SM stream, the output system adding the window to the portal page at a start of the time period and removing the window from the portal page at an end of the time period; and

displaying an advertising banner on the portal page, the advertising banner displaying advertising content based on the plurality of filtering definitions inputted via the user interface.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, further comprising program code that implements a natural language processor for analyzing language content extracted from the single unified stream.

8. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein relevant content items are selected based on keywords.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, further comprising program code that employs lemmatization to group together different inflected forms of a keyword.

10. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the user display comprises a smart device.

11. A computerized method that processes a set of social media (SM) streams, comprising:

providing a user interface for selecting a plurality of different SM streams, the selected plurality of different SM streams forming the set of SM streams, and for entering a username and password for each different SM stream;

creating a single unified stream by interleaving the set of SM streams;

selecting relevant content items from the single unified stream based on a plurality of filtering definitions inputted via the user interface and generating a unified filtered SM stream using selected content items for each filtering definition in the plurality of filtering definitions using selected content items, wherein each filtering definition include a future time period during which the unified filtered SM stream is to be generated; and

outputting each unified filtered SM stream to a user display, the outputting including;

generating a portal page;

displaying a separate window on the portal page for each unified filtered SM stream, each window displaying a respective unified filtered SM stream on the portal page only for the time period included in the filtering definition used to generate the unified filtered SM stream, the output system adding the window to the portal page at a start of the time period and removing the window from the portal page at an end of the time period; and

displaying an advertising banner on the portal page, the advertising banner displaying advertising content based on the plurality of filtering definitions inputted via the user interface.

12. The computerized method of claim 11, wherein selecting relevant content items includes utilizing a natural language processor to analyze language content extracted from the single unified stream.

13. The computerized method of claim 11, wherein relevant content items are selected based on keywords.

14. The computerized method of claim 13, where selecting relevant content items employs lemmatization to group together different inflected forms of a keyword.