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Context sensitive user group communications

  • US 9,900,277 B2
  • Filed: 12/02/2013
  • Issued: 02/20/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for facilitating communication among users, the method comprising:

  • in response to a first user actuating a publish element on a device-generated display, receiving, at a multi-topic website system from the first user, over a network, user-generated content to be published, wherein the user-generated content to be published includes one or more of a video, audio, text or a photograph, and wherein the user-generated content is received at the multi-topic website system prior to selecting a particular second user to whom the user-generated content is to be presented;

    in response to receiving the user-generated content to be published, the multi-topic web site system;

    determining that the user-generated content received from the first user relates to a first topic; and

    selecting, based on the determination that the user-generated content received from the first user relates to the first topic, the particular second user for receiving the user-generated content;

    in response to selecting the particular second user for receiving the user-generated content, the multi-topic web site system presenting the user-generated content to the particular second user;

    wherein the user-generated content is presented to the particular second user, in an interface, as one item of user-generated content in a list of user-generated content items;

    wherein the interface includes an element which, when actuated, is operable to establish an interactive communication session between the first user and the particular second user;

    wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

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