Intra-affiliation and inter-affiliation postings management

• US 10,013,495 B2
• Filed: 06/12/2015
• Issued: 07/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: UpBreeze Incorporated Limited
• Original Assignee: UpBreeze Incorporated Limited
• Inventors: Leung, Hong C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ly, Anh
• Application Number:
  US14/738,476
• Publication Number:
  US 20150363497A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,117 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

Techniques for managing intra-affiliation and inter-affiliation postings are described. Disclosed are techniques for receiving a posting from an account, the account being associated with an affiliation and an account parameter, transmitting one or more affiliation-specific parameters associated with the affiliation to the account, receiving a posting parameter from the account, the posting parameter being selected from one or more affiliation-specific parameters, determining a level of relevancy of the posting to a receiving account based on the posting parameter, the account parameter, and a receiving account parameter, the receiving account being associated with the receiving account parameter, generating an order of postings based on the level of relevancy, and transmitting the order of postings to the receiving account. One or more postings may be displayed at the receiving account based on the order.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more hardware processors, cause performance of operations comprising:

presenting an interface that requests an email address of a first user, without requesting a first affiliation of the user;

receiving the email address entered via the interface by the first user;

identifying a domain name corresponding to the email address;

identifying a library storing associations between (a) a plurality of domain names and (b) a plurality of affiliations, wherein the plurality of domain names comprises the domain name corresponding to the email address, and the plurality of affiliations comprises the first affiliation and a second affiliation;

determining that the domain name corresponding to the email address is associated with the first affiliation based on the library storing associations between (a) the plurality of domain names and (b) the plurality of affiliations;

receiving a first affiliation-specific parameter, associated with the first affiliation, entered by the first user;

determining a level of confidence associated with at least one of;

(a) a first mapping between the first affiliation-specific parameter and an intermediate parameter, and (b) a second mapping between the first affiliation-specific parameter and a second affiliation-specific parameter associated with the second affiliation;

determining a level of relevancy of a posting, entered by the first user, to a second user that is associated with the second affiliation based at least on the level of confidence;

determining to transmit the posting to the second user based at least on the level of relevancy of the posting to the second user; and

transmitting the posting to the second user.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying a set of one or more affiliation-specific parameters associated with the first affiliation; and

causing display of the set of affiliation-specific parameters at the interface.

3. The medium of claim 2, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a selection of a particular affiliation-specific parameter, from the set of affiliation-specific parameters, via the interface by the first user; and

storing the particular affiliation-specific parameter in association with a user account associated with the first user.

4. The medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting an affiliation-specific parameter, associated with the first affiliation, to a client device associated with the first user.

5. The medium of claim 1, wherein the first affiliation comprises at least one of:

a school, a college, a university, a company, an organization, a club, a league, or a team.

6. The medium of claim 1, wherein the first affiliation is identified as being associated with the user without the user entering a name of the first affiliation via the interface.

7. The medium of claim 1, wherein the email address is received as part of a user registration process.

8. The medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

generating a user account for the user.

9. The medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a posting from the user.

10. The medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining a second level of relevancy of a second posting, entered by a third user, to the first user based at least on the first affiliation associated with the first user; and

causing display of the second posting based on the level of relevancy at the interface.

11. The medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting an email message to the email address, the email message including data configured to authenticate the email address.

12. A method, comprising:

presenting an interface that requests an email address of a first user, without requesting a first affiliation of the first user;

receiving the email address entered via the interface by the first user;

identifying a domain name corresponding to the email address;

identifying a library storing associations between (a) a plurality of domain names and (b) a plurality of affiliations, wherein the plurality of domain names comprises the domain name corresponding to the email address, and the plurality of affiliations comprises the first affiliation and a second affiliation;

determining that the domain name corresponding to the email address is associated with the first affiliation based on the library storing associations between (a) the plurality of domain names and (b) the plurality of affiliations;

receiving a first affiliation-specific parameter, associated with the first affiliation, entered by the first user;

determining a level of confidence associated with at least one of;

(a) a first mapping between the first affiliation-specific parameter and an intermediate parameter, and (b) a second mapping between the first affiliation-specific parameter and a second affiliation-specific parameter associated with the second affiliation;

determining a level of relevancy of a posting, entered by the first user, to a second user that is associated with the second affiliation based at least on the level of confidence;

determining to transmit the posting to the second user based at least on the level of relevancy of the posting to the second user; and

transmitting the posting to the second user.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

identifying a set of one or more affiliation-specific parameters associated with the first affiliation; and

causing display of the set of affiliation-specific parameters at the interface.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a particular affiliation-specific parameter, from the set of affiliation-specific parameters, via the interface by the first user; and

storing the particular affiliation-specific parameter in association with a user account associated with the first user.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

transmitting an affiliation-specific parameter, associated with the first affiliation, to a client device associated with the first user.

16. A system, comprising:

at least one device including a hardware processor; and

the system being configured to perform operations comprising;

presenting an interface that requests an email address of a first user, without requesting a first affiliation of the first user;

receiving the email address entered via the interface by the first user;

identifying a domain name corresponding to the email address;

identifying a library storing associations between (a) a plurality of domain names and (b) a plurality of affiliations, wherein the plurality of domain names comprises the domain name corresponding to the email address, and the plurality of affiliations comprises the first affiliation and a second affiliation;

determining that the domain name corresponding to the email address is associated with the first affiliation based on the library storing associations between (a) the plurality of domain names and (b) the plurality of affiliations;

receiving a first affiliation-specific parameter, associated with the first affiliation, entered by the first user;

determining a level of confidence associated with at least one of;

(a) a first mapping between the first affiliation-specific parameter and an intermediate parameter, and (b) a second mapping between the first affiliation-specific parameter and a second affiliation-specific parameter associated with the second affiliation;

determining a level of relevancy of a posting, entered by the first user, to a second user that is associated with the second affiliation based at least on the level of confidence;

determining to transmit the posting to the second user based at least on the level of relevancy of the posting to the second user; and

transmitting the posting to the second user.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying a set of one or more affiliation-specific parameters associated with the first affiliation; and

causing display of the set of affiliation-specific parameters at the interface.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a selection of a particular affiliation-specific parameter, from the set of affiliation-specific parameters, via the interface by the first user; and

storing the particular affiliation-specific parameter in association with a user account associated with the first user.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise:

transmitting an affiliation-specific parameter, associated with the first affiliation, to a client device associated with the first user.