Systems and methods for generating dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a web-based social network

• US 20080040370A1
• Filed: 08/11/2006
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ramakrishnan, TS, Sanghvi, Ruchi, Bosworth, Andrew, D'Angelo, Adam, Cox, Chris
• Granted Patent: US 7,827,208 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/101
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• 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

Systems and methods for generating dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a web-based social network are provided. At least one action of one or more members of a web-based social network is associated with relationship data for the one or more members to produce consolidated data. One or more elements associated with the consolidated data is identified and used to aggregate the consolidated data. Further exemplary methods comprise weighting by affinity the aggregated consolidated data to generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.

Claims

1. A method for generating dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a web-based social network comprising:

storing at least one action of one or more members of a web-based social network;

accessing relationship data for the one or more members;

associating the at least one action with the relationship data to produce consolidated data;

identifying one or more elements associated with the consolidated data; and

aggregating the consolidated data based on the one or more elements to produce aggregated consolidated data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising weighting by affinity the aggregated consolidated data to generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising storing the generated dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising publishing the stored generated dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the relationship data comprises friends of the one or more members of the web-based social network.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the relationship data comprises friends of the friends of the one or more members of the web-based social network.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one action is a change to a member profile.

8. A system for generating dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a web-based social network comprising:

a database configured for storing at least one action of one or more members of a web-based social network;

a database configured with relationship data for the one or more members of the web-based social network;

a processing module configured with an association component to associate the at least one action with the relationship data to produce consolidated data;

the processing module configured with an identification component to identify one or more elements associated with the consolidated data; and

the processing module configured with an aggregation component to aggregate the consolidated data based on the one or more elements to produce aggregated consolidated data.

9. The system of claim 8, comprising the processing module configured with an affinity component to weight by affinity the aggregated consolidated data to generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based network.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising a database configured to store the generated dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising a server configured to publish the stored generated dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the relationship data comprises friends of the one or more members of the web-based social network.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the relationship data comprises friends of the friends of the one or more members of the web-based social network.

14. A computer readable medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor for performing a method for generating dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a web-based social network, the method comprising:

storing at least one action of one or more members of a web-based social network;

accessing relationship data for the one or more members;

associating the at least one action with the relationship data to produce consolidated data;

identifying one or more elements associated with the consolidated data; and

aggregating the consolidated data based on the one or more elements to produce aggregated consolidated data.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 14, further comprising weighting by affinity the aggregated consolidated data to generate dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, further comprising storing the generated dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 16, further comprising publishing the stored generated dynamic relationship-based content personalized for the members of the web-based social network.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the relationship data comprises friends of the one or more members of the web-based social network.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the relationship data comprises friends of the friends of the one or more members of the web-based social network.