System and method for dynamically generating, maintaining, and growing an online social network

• US 20060048059A1
• Filed: 08/26/2005
• Published: 03/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Concert Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Redlands Technology, LLC (Concert Technology Corporation)
• Inventors: Etkin, Henry
• Granted Patent: US 7,890,871 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/745
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/30 in albums, collections or shared content, e.g. social network photos or video

Abstract

An on-line community/social network system and method for provide a novel technique that enables an on-line community system to obtain information necessary to provide additional and more robust features to its users, solely from the user'"'"'s participation in the community, and without requiring the users to do anything else (i.e., to explicitly provide the needed information). From this core approach, a number of advantageous novel techniques are provided by the inventive system to greatly enhance the quality and usefulness of various features and services that can be offered to community users as well as to provide them with entirely new and unique features as a result of user-specific data generated by the system'"'"'s novel infrastructure.

Claims

1. A data processing method for defining at least one relationship link between plural individuals, comprising the steps of:

(a) enabling at least a portion of the plurality of individuals, to provide content data visible to the plural individuals;

(b) labeling, by said at least a portion of plural individuals, of said content data with at least one tag element, said at least one tar element comprising data identifying at least one plural individual related to said content data; and

(c) generating, based on said at least one tag element, the at least one relationship link between said plural individuals.