Recipient location aware notifications in response to related posts

• US 9,935,910 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2013
• Issued: 04/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Zunger, Yonatan, Liu, Lan, Lewis, Justin, Johanson, Cynthia, Wong, Henry, Janakiram, Nundu, Sarkar, Prasenjit, Hobbs, Brett, Fisher, John, Peterson, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang, Jungwon
• Application Number:
  US14/073,860
• Publication Number:
  US 20160142358A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,609 Days
• Field of Search: 709204-206, 709217, 709218, 709224, 707769, 715738, 715205, 715753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• 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 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• 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 first post data item at a first location; providing for presentation of the first post data item at a second location; receiving a request to generate a second post data item at the second location, the second post data item being in reply to the first post data item; identifying a destination for notification about the second post data item; providing in association with the destination a notification identifying the second post data item, the notification being associated with the first location.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a request from a user to generate a first post data item in a group of post data items at a first location that corresponds to a social network page;

providing for presentation of the first post data item with the group of post data items at a second location that corresponds to a content page that does not share a domain with the social network page;

receiving a request from another user to generate a second post data item in the group of post data items at the second location, the second post data item being in reply to the first post data item;

identifying a destination associated with the user for notification about the second post data item;

determining whether the group of post data items at the first location or the second location was interacted with by the user; and

providing, by a processor of a server and in association with the destination, a notification for the user, wherein the notification identifies the second post data item and a reference to the group of post data items at the first location or the second location based on the determination of whether the group of post data items was interacted with by the user at the first location or the second location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the first post data item at the second location includes accessing a social graph of the user from whom the request to generate the first post data item is received, and identifying a second user as a member of the social graph of the user, the second user identified as accessing the second location.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification is defined by one or more of an e-mail, a private message, or an alert.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first post data item is generated in reply to a third post data item, the third post data item being originally generated at the second location and presented at the first location.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification includes a link to the second post data item presented at the first location.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the destination for notification associated with the first post data item includes accessing a notification tag associated with the first post data item.

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

8. The method of claim 7, wherein when the second post data item is rejected, then the second post data item is not displayed at the first location except when the user accessing the first location is identified as the author of the second post data item.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first location or the second location defines a service.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the second post data item is a direct reply to the first post data item.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the destination is the first location.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification is defined as sent from the first location.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the request to generate the first post data item is defined from a first application that is triggered to open by a second application.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference is a link is to the group of post data items at the first location when the group of post data items at the first location was interacted with by the user, and wherein the link is to the group of post data items at the second location when the group of post data items at the second location was interacted with by the user.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the reference is a link to the group of post data items at the most recent location between the first location and the second location that was interacted with by the user, the interaction by the user corresponding to the user providing a particular post data item of the group of post data items in reply to another post data item of the group of post data items at the first location or the second location.