Dynamic creation, data population, and communication establishment across various mediums

• US 9,998,552 B1
• Filed: 04/30/2010
• Issued: 06/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Original Assignee: Open Invention Network LLC
• Inventors: Ledet, David Gerard
• Primary Examiner(s): Fan, Hua
• Application Number:
  US12/770,981
• Time in Patent Office: 2,965 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

On various networked mediums such as web pages, blogs and social networking pages, a user presence can be enhanced by automatically creating a medium. An application on a personal computing device of the user can execute to query local and remote user data, such as webpage ads a user has clicked on, internet surfing history, emails, calendar events, etc. The application processes query responses to determine the current interests of a user to suggest a topic of the medium to the user. The application then creates a medium with a topic and populates the medium with content generated from the query responses such as webpage links, photos, etc. Automatic and configurable updates of the medium can also be performed by processing the local and/or remote user data. Notifications to acquaintances about the medium and updates can also be automated.

Claims

1. A method for generating a medium on a network, comprising:

processing a user'"'"'s level of activity and selecting a medium with a highest level of activity in order to create the selected medium on the network, wherein the medium comprises a web page, a blog, a message, an instant message, or a social networking application;

querying at least one of local and remote systems to determine user data comprising one or more current interests of the user based on personal information, wherein the personal information comprises ads that have been served, ads the user has clicked, searches requested, and surfing habits;

processing the user data to automatically create content for the medium;

creating the medium on the network;

populating the medium with the automatically generated content;

notifying one or more acquaintances of a user of the medium; and

preventing a further notification to an acquaintance when a response from the acquaintance is not received within a timeout period, wherein

the timeout period is automatically extended for the acquaintance when the acquaintance has previously responded.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

ranking the current interests of the user; and

selecting a category associated with a highest ranked current interest.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein selecting a category dependent on the one or more current interests comprises presenting a list of current interests to the user and receiving a selected category from the user.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining at least one automatic content behavior for periodically updating the medium;

generating updated content in accordance with the automatic content behavior; and

updating the medium with the generated updated content.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining one or more acquaintances of the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the personal information further comprises user location information obtained approximately using a current IP address and then more specifically by scanning cache and temporary Internet files.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the personal information further comprises user data from one or more online games to which the user has subscriptions.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the personal information further comprises data from DVR programs, live video streaming, web-based shows, or GPS.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

a computer processor coupled to a non-transitory computer readable medium and memory comprising an application, wherein the application is configured to cause the computer processor to;

present an interface to a user;

process the user'"'"'s level of activity and select a medium with a highest level of activity in order to create the selected medium on the network, wherein the medium comprises a web page, a blog, a message, an instant message, or a social networking application;

query at least one of local and remote systems to determine user data comprising one or more current interests of the user based on personal information, wherein the personal information comprises ads that have been served, ads the user has clicked, searches requested, and surfing habits;

process the user data to automatically create content for the medium;

populate the medium;

notify one or more acquaintances of a user of the medium; and

prevent a further notification to an acquaintance when a response from the acquaintance is not received within a timeout period, wherein

the timeout period is automatically extended for the acquaintance when the acquaintance has previously responded.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the application is further configured to cause the processor to process user data in one or more local directories of the personal computing device to automatically generate content to populate the medium.

11. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the user data is stored on one or more remote computer devices.

12. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the application is further configured to cause the processor to:

determine a topic of the medium;

determine acquaintances of the user;

determine one or more of the acquaintances that have an interest in the topic; and

notify the one or more acquaintances that are interested in the topic about the medium.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the application is further configured to cause the processor to:

automatically generate at least one content update to the medium;

update the medium with the at least one automatically generated content update; and

notify at least one of the one or more acquaintances that are interested in the topic about the at least one automatically generated content update.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions for execution by at least one processor, that, when executed, are configured to cause the at least one processor to:

process a user'"'"'s level of activity and select a medium with a highest level of activity in order to create the selected medium on the network, wherein the medium comprises a web page, a blog, a message, an instant message, or a social networking application;

query at least one of local and remote systems to determine one or more current interests of the user based on personal information, wherein the personal information comprises ads that have been served, ads the user has clicked, searches requested, and surfing habits;

process at the user data to automatically create content for the medium;

present an automatic content behavior interface to a user;

receive one or more parameters of at least one automatic content behavior from the user;

create at least one automatic content update for a medium in accordance with the at least one automatic content behavior;

modify a medium with the at least one automatic content update in accordance with the automatic content behavior;

notify one or more acquaintances of a user of the medium; and

set a timeout period for notifications to an acquaintance of the user based on historical response times by the user and the acquaintance, historical response times by the user and a similar acquaintance, an average response time based on all users, an average response time based on all users utilizing a particular category, or any combination thereof, wherein

the timeout period is automatically extended for the acquaintance when the acquaintance has previously responded.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 14, wherein the medium comprises a topic and wherein the computer-readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to:

query at least one of local user data or remote user data; and

process at least one response to the query to generate an automatic content update in relation to the topic.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 15 comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to notify one or more acquaintances of the user about a modification of the medium.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 16 comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to modify one or more parameters of the at least one automatic content behavior based on responses from at least one of the one or more acquaintances.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 15 wherein the automatic content behavior comprises one or more acquaintance notification behavior and the computer-readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

determine one or more acquaintances of the user;

determine one or more of the acquaintances that have an interest in the topic;

notify the one or more acquaintances that are interested in the topic about the automatic content update of the medium.