SOCIAL PLATFORM WITH ENHANCED PRIVACY AND INTEGRATED CUSTOMIZATION FEATURES
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method of implementing a multi-network interaction within a first social network, the method comprising:
- identifying a plurality of users to form a group within the first social network;
enabling members of the group to connect to a second social network from within the first social network, wherein the second social network is external to the first social network;
enabling members of the group to access contents posted by at least some of the other members of the group to the second social network; and
,displaying, within the first social network, contents posted by the members of the group to the second social network.
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Abstract
A social networking platform offering various services, such as, facilitating aggregation and management of a user'"'"'s interaction on one or more social networking platforms, offering enhanced control over the level of privacy associated with the flow of user data, offering tools to customize the user'"'"'s exposure to advertisement-related content on the social networking platform(s), integrating features to control aspects of how data/content is presented to and visualized by the user, empowering the user to multicast direct messages to other users without the other users having to meet certain constraints, empowering the user to create and/or join a group based on messaging threads, and the like. One or more of these enhanced services/features are associated with a powerful framework of authentication/permission model for access control.
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53 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method of implementing a multi-network interaction within a first social network, the method comprising:
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identifying a plurality of users to form a group within the first social network; enabling members of the group to connect to a second social network from within the first social network, wherein the second social network is external to the first social network; enabling members of the group to access contents posted by at least some of the other members of the group to the second social network; and
,displaying, within the first social network, contents posted by the members of the group to the second social network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 30)
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17. A computer-implemented method for dynamically creating a formalized group on a social network platform, the method comprising:
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enabling users to directly exchange messages within the social network with one or more other users of the social network; storing a thread of messages between the users of the social network; providing at least one of the users an ability to formally create a group as an initial group owner within the social network based on the stored thread of messages; and providing the ability to one or more members of the formalized group to manage aspects of the formalized group. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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31. A computer-implemented method of presenting multi-format information to a user of a social networking platform, the method comprising:
enabling the user to control the relative proportion of various formats of information embedded within a stream of information being visualized by the user within the social network platform. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A computer-implemented method of globally associating identification indicia in the form of a universal tag, wherein the universal tag spans across different service types and different information types available within the social network, the method comprising:
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enabling a user within the social network to sort, organize, or otherwise categorize items using the universal tag within several formats of information including one or more of text posts, graphics, photos, video clips, calendar events, contact information, documents, and other media, wherein the tagged items are configured to be available within one or more types of services; and archiving the universal tag and the associated items in a database of the social network. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 50, 51, 52)
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43. A computer-implemented method of serving advertisements to a user within a social network platform, wherein the user'"'"'s personal identification information is anonymized, the method comprising:
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providing an interface on the social network platform for the user to enter information specific to the user'"'"'s advertisement viewing preference, thereby setting up an advertisement filter, and, anonymizing the user'"'"'s personal identification information from the provider of the social network platform; and placing a proxy server between an advertisement provider and the social network platform server, wherein the proxy server blocks access to user'"'"'s personal identification information by the advertisement provider, and, selectively presents the advertisements to the user that are passed through the advertisement filter based on the user'"'"'s advertisement viewing preference. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53)
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