Interest groups based on network feed items

• US 9,965,541 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2015
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Gadamsetty, Ashok
• Primary Examiner(s): Nabi, Reza
• Application Number:
  US14/629,850
• Publication Number:
  US 20160246869A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,169 Days
• Field of Search: 715753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/21 Design, administration or maintenance of databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24573 using data annotations, e.g. user-defined metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Disclosed are some examples of systems, apparatus, methods and storage media for creating groups in a social networking database system, and more specifically, to creating groups based on network feed items. In some implementations, a database system is capable of maintaining a database including data associated with a plurality of users and groups to which the users can be subscribed. The system is configurable to provide a feed for display to a first user, and to receive input entered in a publication field by the first user. The system is configurable to create a feed item for display to the first user and to at least one second user based on the received input. The system is configurable to receive second input associated with the feed item from the second user. The system is additionally configurable to provide a selectable user interface (UI) element for display to the first user. Responsive to the selection of the UI element, the system is further configurable to create a new group based on the feed item, and to subscribe the first and the second user to the new group without additional input.

Claims

1. An enterprise social networking database system configurable to cause:

providing for display in a user interface on a first device of a first user;

a feed of the enterprise social networking database system, and

a publication element associated with the feed, the publication element configured to receive input data for sharing in the enterprise social networking database system;

obtaining first input data from the first device via the publication element;

identifying a referenced user in the first input data, the referenced user being associated with an @-mention in content of the publication element;

creating a feed item comprising the first input data;

sharing the feed item in one or more feeds of the enterprise social networking database system;

obtaining second input data associated with the feed item from a plurality of second devices of a plurality of second users;

identifying one or more of the second users as having submitted in the second input data one or more of;

a comment on the feed item, a like of the feed item or a request to share the feed item;

providing for display in the user interface on the first device a user interface (UI) element associated with the feed item, the UI element being user-selectable to cause creation of a group of users of the enterprise social networking database system;

obtaining an indication from the first device that the UI element has been selected; and

responsive to obtaining the indication;

generating or updating one or more group data objects in a database to;

create the group of users in association with the feed item, the creation of the group being based on satisfaction of a criterion or criteria, the criterion or criteria comprising identification of a user as capable of providing a solution, the solution being identified by the comment on the feed item, and

subscribe the first user, the referenced user and the identified one or more second users to the group.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the second input data comprises a comment regarding the feed item.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the second input data comprises a like regarding the feed item.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the second input data comprises a request to share the feed item.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the database system is further configurable to cause:

determining when a third user is referenced in the first input data or in the second input data; and

responsive to determining that the third user is referenced in the first input data or in the second input data, subscribing the third user to the group.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the feed item is assigned a feed item identifier in a feed items table in the database.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein:

each user is assigned a user identifier in a user table in the database; and

the user identifier of the first user is associated with the feed item identifier in the database.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein, responsive to obtaining the second input data, the user identifiers of the second users are associated with the feed item identifier in the database.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein, responsive to obtaining the indication, the database system is configurable to cause:

accessing the feed item table to identify the user identifiers associated with the feed item identifier, the users corresponding to the identified user identifiers comprising the first user, the referenced user, and the identified one or more second users.

10. A database-implemented method comprising:

providing for display in a user interface on a first device of a first user;

a feed of an enterprise social networking database system, and

a publication element associated with the feed, the publication element configured to receive input data for sharing in the enterprise social networking database system;

obtaining first input data from the first device via the publication element;

identifying a referenced user in the first input data, the referenced user being associated with an @-mention in content of the publication element;

creating a feed item comprising the first input data;

sharing the feed item in one or more feeds of the enterprise social networking database system;

obtaining second input data associated with the feed item from a plurality of second devices of a plurality of second users;

identifying one or more of the second users as having submitted in the second input data one or more of;

a comment on the feed item, a like of the feed item or a request to share the feed item;

providing for display in the user interface on the first device a user interface (UI) element associated with the feed item, the UI element being user-selectable to cause creation of a group of users of the enterprise social networking database system;

obtaining an indication from the first device that the UI element has been selected; and

responsive to obtaining the indication;

generating or updating one or more group data objects in a database to;

create the group of users in association with the feed item, the creation of the group being based on satisfaction of a criterion or criteria, the criterion or criteria comprising identification of a user as capable of providing a solution, the solution being identified by the comment on the feed item, and

subscribe the first user, the referenced user and the identified one or more second users to the group.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the second input data comprises a comment regarding the feed item.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the second input data comprises a like regarding the feed item.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the second input data comprises a request to share the feed item.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

determining when a third user is referenced in the first input data or in the second input data; and

responsive to determining that the third user is referenced in the first input data or in the second input data, subscribing the third user to the group.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the feed item is assigned a feed item identifier in a feed items table in the database.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein:

each user is assigned a user identifier in a user table in the database; and

the user identifier of the first user is associated with the feed item identifier in the database.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein, responsive to obtaining the second input data, the user identifiers of the second users are associated with the feed item identifier in the database.

18. The method of claim 17, the method further comprising, responsive to obtaining the indication:

accessing the feed item table to identify the user identifiers associated with the feed item identifier, the users corresponding to the identified user identifiers comprising the first user, the referenced user, and the identified one or more second users.

19. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions executable by one or more processors in a database system to cause operations to be performed comprising:

providing for display in a user interface on a first device of a first user;

a feed of an enterprise social networking database system, and

a publication element associated with the feed, the publication element configured to receive input data for sharing in the enterprise social networking database system;

obtaining first input data from the first device via the publication element;

identifying a referenced user in the first input data, the referenced user being associated with an @-mention in content of the publication element;

creating a feed item comprising the first input data;

sharing the feed item in one or more feeds of the enterprise social networking database system;

obtaining second input data associated with the feed item from a plurality of second devices of a plurality of second users;

identifying one or more of the second users as having submitted in the second input data one or more of;

a comment on the feed item, a like of the feed item or a request to share the feed item;

providing for display in the user interface on the first device a user interface (UI) element associated with the feed item, the UI element being user-selectable to cause creation of a group of users of the enterprise social networking database system;

obtaining an indication from the first device that the UI element has been selected; and

responsive to obtaining the indication;

generating or updating one or more group data objects in a database to;

create the group of users in association with the feed item, the creation of the group being based on satisfaction of a criterion or criteria, the criterion or criteria comprising identification of a user as capable of providing a solution, the solution being identified by the comment on the feed item, and

subscribe the first user, the referenced user and the identified one or more second users to the group.

20. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 19, the operations further comprising:

determining when a third user is referenced in the first input data or in the second input data; and

responsive to determining that the third user is referenced in the first input data or in the second input data, subscribing the third user to the group.

21. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 19, wherein:

the feed item is assigned a feed item identifier in a feed items table in the database.

22. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 21, wherein:

each user is assigned a user identifier in a user table in the database; and

the user identifier of the first user is associated with the feed item identifier in the database.

23. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 22, wherein, responsive to obtaining the second input data, the user identifiers of the second users are associated with the feed item identifier in the database.