USER-GENERATED CONTENT PERMISSIONS STATUS ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20160371471A1
• Filed: 08/29/2016
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Banjo, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Banjo, Inc.
• Inventors: Patton, Damien, Mehta, Rish
• Granted Patent: US 9,934,368 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/554 involving event detection and direct action
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2115 Third party
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences

Abstract

A method for user-generated content privacy control, including: detecting a trigger event, identifying a post for permissions analysis, determining permissions for the post, and storing the updated permissions in a post indexing system.

Claims

1. A method for user-generated content privacy control, comprising:

receiving a plurality of posts from a plurality of social networking systems, each post of the plurality uniquely identified by a post identifier and authored by a different user account on the respective social networking system;

determining post parameter values for each post of the plurality;

storing a stored permissions status for each post of the plurality;

detecting an event based on the post parameter values of the plurality of posts;

aggregating post identifiers for posts of the plurality related to the event into an event content stream for the event;

receiving a request for the event content stream from a third party;

in response to receipt of the request, for each post identifier within the event content stream;

checking a permissions status for the respective post, comprising querying the respective social networking system from which the respective post was received for a permissions status of the respective post;

in response to the permissions status for the respective post comprising restricted access;

setting the stored permissions status for the respective post to a private status, querying the social networking system for a permissions status of the respective user account authoring the respective post, and setting permissions statuses for all posts authored by the respective user account to private in response to the permissions status comprising a private categorization;

generating an edited event content stream by removing post identifiers associated with private permissions statuses from the event content stream after checking permissions statuses for each post identifier within the event content stream; and

sending the edited event content stream to the third party.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein aggregating post identifiers for posts of the plurality into an event content stream comprises aggregating identifiers for posts of the plurality having public stored permissions statuses into the event content stream.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to storing the stored permissions status for each post of the plurality, comparing the permissions status of each post of the plurality with a stored permissions status for the respective authoring user account; and

in response to determination of a discrepancy between a post permissions status and the stored permissions status for the respective authoring user account;

querying the respective social networking system from which the post was received for a second permissions status of the respective user account; and

updating a stored permissions status for each post authored by the respective user account in response to the second permissions status comprising a different permissions status from the stored permissions status.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein updating the stored permissions status comprises setting the stored permissions status for all posts authored by the respective user account to private in response to the second permissions status comprising a private status.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second post having a public permissions status from a first social networking system of the plurality of social networking systems, the second post authored by a user account that authored a first post of the plurality of posts, the user account having a private stored permissions status;

querying the first social networking system for a permissions status of each post authored by the user account; and

updating the stored permissions status of each post authored by the user account to match a received permissions status, received from the first social networking system, for the respective post.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining a geographic identifier and a timestamp for each post of the plurality;

wherein detecting the event comprises detecting the event within a geofence at a first time based on the post parameter values of geofence posts, wherein geofence posts are posts of the plurality that are associated with geographic identifiers within the geofence and associated with timestamps within a predetermined time duration of the first time; and

wherein the post identifiers for the posts of the plurality related to the event comprise post identifiers for geofence posts that are associated with the first geographic identifier and with the detected event, as determined based on the respective post parameter values.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising validating the event prior to sending the event notification, wherein validating the event comprises:

determining an anomaly probability for the post, based on historic posts from the authors of the event posts and historic posts associated with the geofence; and

validating the event in response to the anomaly probability exceeding a threshold anomaly probability.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the user account represents a news entity, the method further comprising:

receiving post identifier selections from the content stream from the news entity;

aggregating the post identifier selections into a publication stream; and

in response to receipt of a live broadcast request from the news entity, concurrently;

providing the publication stream to the news entity; and

updating the content stream and event parameter values based on the subsequently posts received from the set of social networking systems.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving an endpoint URI from the first user account;

classifying the endpoint URI as the live broadcast request; and

ceasing content stream updating in response to publication request receipt;

wherein sending the event content stream to the user account comprises sending the content stream to the endpoint URI.

10. A method for user-generated content privacy control, comprising, at a computing system:

a) receiving a request, from a third party, for a first post identifier of a first post authored by a first user account on a first social networking system separate and distinct from the computing system;

b) in response to receipt of the request;

querying the first social networking system for a permissions status of the first post, receiving the permissions status of the first post from the first social networking system, and updating a stored permissions status for the first post identifier to match the received permissions status of the first post;

c) querying the first social networking system for a permissions status for the first user account in response to the received permissions status of the first post comprising a private status;

d) updating stored permissions statuses for a set of post identifiers for posts authored by the first user account in response to the permissions status comprising a private status; and

e) sending the first post identifier to the third party in response to the first post having a public stored permissions status after updating the stored permissions status for the first post identifier to match the received permissions status of the first post.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

f) detecting a news event within a geofence in near-real time at a first time from a plurality of posts received from a plurality of social networking systems, wherein the posts were posted to the respective social networking system within a predetermined time duration from the first time;

g) identifying event posts associated with the event from the set of posts;

h) aggregating post identifiers for the event posts into a content stream;

i) determining event parameter values based on post parameter values extracted from the event posts;

j) receiving event parameter requirements from the third party;

k) in response to the event parameter values satisfying the event parameter requirements, sending the content stream to the third party;

a) receiving, from the third party, selections of post identifiers from the content stream;

b) in response to receipt of the request from the news entity, concurrently;

providing the content stream to the third party; and

repeating b) to d) for new posts received from the set of social networking systems.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

for each post of the plurality, determining a geographic identifier, timestamp, and set of post parameter values based on the respective post;

for a predetermined geofence and predetermined timeframe, identifying event posts, wherein the event posts are posts of the plurality that are associated with geographic identifiers located within the predetermined geofence and timestamps within the predetermined timeframe;

receiving a predetermined logo from a branding entity;

identifying brand posts from the event posts, each brand post comprising an image with a portion of the predetermined logo;

aggregating post identifiers for the brand posts into a content stream;

for each brand post within the content stream, checking a privacy status for the brand post;

sending the content stream to the third party;

receiving, from the third party, a selection of a post identifier of the content stream and an endpoint URI; and

sending the selected post identifier to the endpoint URI at a publication time in response to receipt of the selection.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

determining a measure of exposure for the brand post identified by the selected post identifier; and

sending the measure of exposure to the third party.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein determining the measure of exposure for the brand post identified by the selected post identifier comprises determining a total number of views of the image of the brand post, comprising:

tracking a first number of views at the endpoint identified by the endpoint URI;

determining a second number of views from the social networking system from which the event post was received; and

determining the number of views based on the first and second number of views.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein determining the second number of views from the social networking system from which the brand post was received comprises estimating the second number of views based on a social graph of the respective author within the social networking system.

12. The method of claim ii, further comprising:

receiving the plurality of posts, each generated by a different author, from the plurality of social networking systems;

associating a geographic identifier and timestamp with each post; and

extracting post parameter values from each post;

wherein the plurality of posts comprise geofence posts, wherein the geofence posts are posts of the plurality that are associated with timestamps within a threshold time period of the first time and associated with the geofence through the respective geographic identifiers, wherein the news event is detected based on post parameter values of the geofence posts, and wherein the geofence posts comprise the event posts.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein detecting the news event further comprises:

determining an event probability for the geofence based on a first subset of the geofence post parameter values;

categorizing the event with an event category based on a second subset of the geofence post parameter values, different from the first subset; and

determining a news probability for the geofence based on the event categorization, the event probability, and a third subset of geofence post parameter values, different from the first or second subset, wherein a news event is detected in response to the news probability exceeding a threshold news probability.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the event parameter requirements comprise a monitored category, wherein the event parameter values satisfy the event parameter requirements when the event category falls within the monitored category.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

determining an event identifier from the post parameter values for the event posts;

associating the event identifier with the event posts;

receiving a timeframe request from the third party for the event identifier, the timeframe request comprising a start and end time;

identifying event posts that are associated with the event identifier and a timestamp falling between the start and end time;

checking privacy settings for each identified event post; and

sending identifiers for the event posts that are public to the third party.