Techniques for promoting and viewing social content written by nearby people
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method to promote sharing of user-generated content based on user proximity to a given venue, while safeguarding user privacy at the given venue, the computer-implemented comprising:
- receiving, via a network and from a first of a plurality of client devices at the given venue, a request for a data connection to a network device, the first client device having an associated user;
querying, by one or more computer processors of the network device, the first client device for user-generated content authored by the user and indicated as sharable by the first client device;
receiving, in response to the query, the user-generated content from the first client device, wherein the user-generated content was generated by a user presently at the given venue;
indexing the user-generated content in a data store of the network device, wherein the indexed user-generated content is transmittable to requesting client devices connected to the network device in order to promote sharing of user-generated content based on user proximity to the given venue; and
delaying transmission of the user-generated content to the requesting client devices until a threshold number of users are identified as being proximate to the given venue, in order to safeguard user privacy by forestalling user identification of the user at the given venue as being a creator of the user-generated content.
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Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for promoting and sharing social content for view in a network. An index engine of a network device queries a client device requesting a data connection to the network device for sharable social media content. The index engine receives, in response to the query, the social media content from the client device. The network device indexes the social media content in a data store of the network device. The indexed social media content is transmittable to requesting client devices connected to the network device.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method to promote sharing of user-generated content based on user proximity to a given venue, while safeguarding user privacy at the given venue, the computer-implemented comprising:
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receiving, via a network and from a first of a plurality of client devices at the given venue, a request for a data connection to a network device, the first client device having an associated user; querying, by one or more computer processors of the network device, the first client device for user-generated content authored by the user and indicated as sharable by the first client device; receiving, in response to the query, the user-generated content from the first client device, wherein the user-generated content was generated by a user presently at the given venue; indexing the user-generated content in a data store of the network device, wherein the indexed user-generated content is transmittable to requesting client devices connected to the network device in order to promote sharing of user-generated content based on user proximity to the given venue; and delaying transmission of the user-generated content to the requesting client devices until a threshold number of users are identified as being proximate to the given venue, in order to safeguard user privacy by forestalling user identification of the user at the given venue as being a creator of the user-generated content. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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