SOCIAL ADVERTISEMENT NETWORK

• US 20090307003A1
• Filed: 05/18/2009
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Citizennet Inc. (Advance Publications Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Citizennet Inc. (Advance Publications Incorporated)
• Inventors: Bina, Nicholas J., McGinley, Michael C., Benyamin, Daniel, Hall, Michael Aaron
• Application Number:
  US12/467,981
• Publication Number:
  US 20090307003A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/319
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0274 Split fees
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Activity systems and methods for social networks are provided in which user activities are gathered and matched with advertisers and/or publishers and displayed by publishers. Paid links or units can also be attached to these displayed user activities to provide revenue to the user, advertiser and/or publisher. The gathering and matching may be enhanced by a message classifier and an optimizer.

Claims

1. A method of supplying relevant user activities of a social network, the method comprising:

classifying user activities by an activity server coupled to a network; and

matching the classified user activities by the activity server to a search query based on a matching criteria.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the matching criteria is based on optimizing at least one specific metric.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the metric includes a click through rate, revenue or time on a website.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the matching criteria is based on keywords provided by a publisher, syndicator, user or an advertiser.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the matching criteria is based on a relevance of the classified activities to a publisher, syndicator, user or an advertiser.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the matching criteria is based on a percentage of keywords that match between a user activity and the search query.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising presenting an offer to display the matched user activities and wherein selection of the offer generates revenue.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the matching criteria is based on content displayed near the presented offer.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising presenting a selectable object that when selected by a user initiates the search query.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the matching criteria is based on a social affiliation with the user.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the user activities comprises messages, a multimedia file or links to other activities.

12. The method of claim 11 receiving user activities via the network by the activity server.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising authorizing distribution of the user activities.

14. The method of claim 12 further comprising restricting distribution of a subset of the user activities.

15. The method of claim 1 further comprising distributing the matched user activities via the network.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying the matched user activities on a computer generated display.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein classifying the user activities further comprises scoring each user activity relative to each given category.

18. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving the search query from a web server coupled to the network and remote from the activity server

19. The method of claim 18 further comprising supplying the matched user activities to the web server that sent the search query.

20. The method of claim 18 wherein the search query comprises of terms supplied by a publishing web server.

21. The method of claim 1 further comprising indexing terms retrieved from web pages from a plurality of publishing web servers by the activity server and the search query comprising the index terms.

22. The method of claim 1 further comprising refining the matched user activities based on a refinement criteria.

23. The method of claim 22 wherein the refinement criteria is a measurement of a location relative to the user activity, quality of the user activity, or a social connection to the user.

24. An activity system for supplying relevant user activities of a social network, the system comprising:

a plurality of servers gathering user activities;

activity server in network communication with at least one of the plurality of servers and configured to classify the user activities from the at least one of the plurality of servers and the activity server configured to match the classified user activities to a search query received from at least one of the plurality of servers based on a matching criteria.

25. The system of claim 24 further comprising a data storage coupled to the activity server and configured to store user activities transmitted by the plurality of servers and the classified user activities and wherein the matching criteria is based on optimizing a click through rate, revenue or time on a website.

26. The system of claim 25 wherein the activity server is configured to distribute the matched user activities via a network and to supply the matched user activities to the at least one of the plurality of servers that sent the search query.

27. The system of claim 26 wherein the at least one of the plurality of servers that send the search query displays the matched user activities and at least one of the plurality of servers that did not send the search query displays the matched user activities.

28. The system of claim 25 wherein the activity server is configured to refine the matched user activities based on a measurement of a location relative to the user activity, quality of the user activity, and a social connection to the user.