Method and system for providing social search and connection services with a social media ecosystem

• US 9,292,885 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2013
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Unittus Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Unittus Incorporated
• Inventors: Astore, Jon Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Pulliam, Christyann
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ferrer, Jedidiah
• Application Number:
  US14/011,164
• Publication Number:
  US 20140006377A1
• Time in Patent Office: 938 Days
• Field of Search: 707/736, 707/741, 705/319, 705/14.4, 705/14.49, 705/14.51, 705/14.66, 705/14.67
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0239 Online discounts or incentives
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A method and system for social media ecosystem searching. A desired person can be searched for from public search engines and social media sites directly by name and/or by unique search keywords and search categories created and publically published by the desired person, a social media index of the desired person or a social commerce connection associated with the desired person. The search results are publically viewable. However, communication with the desired person located within the social media ecosystem is via a private system in which a searcher must provide login information to privately communicate with the desired person. The private system helps ensure that social media index values and social commerce connections are properly established, recorded and updated for the desired person and provides a layer of security and privacy. The social media searching ecosystem is provided on a cloud communications network for mobile and non-mobile devices.

Claims

1. A method for social media ecosystem searching, comprising:

receiving a plurality of electronic information from a plurality of target applications on a plurality of target network devices each with one or more processors on a first cloud application stored in a first non-transitory computer readable medium on a cloud server network device with the one or more processors via a cloud communications network for a social media ecosystem comprising;

one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks,

wherein the plurality of electronic information includes a plurality of personal electronic information input into the plurality of target network devices by a plurality of individual people using search categories and search keywords uniquely created by the plurality of individual people, and creates a first level of privacy for the plurality of individual people for public searching based on the search categories and search keywords uniquely created by the plurality of individual people;

storing from the first cloud application the received plurality of electronic information for the plurality of individual people in a plurality of pre-determined search index structures in a plurality of cloud storage objects;

calculating from the first cloud application a plurality of social search index values for the plurality of pre-determined search index structures with the electronic information from the stored plurality of cloud storage objects and by calculating a plurality of numeric social media index values from a (X)dimensional entity of social commerce connections for each of the plurality of individual people with each dimension in the (X)dimensional entity assigned a pre-determined numeric percentage and with a smallest dimension(1) in the (X)dimensional entity assigned a largest numeric percentage and including a set of highest value social connections for an individual person and a largest dimension(X) in the (X)dimensional entity assigned a smallest numeric percentage and including a set of lowest value social connections for the individual person;

storing from the first cloud application the calculated social search index values and the calculated social media index values in the plurality of pre-determined search index structures in the stored plurality of cloud storage objects;

providing access from the first cloud application for the plurality of pre-determined search index structures stored in the plurality of cloud storage objects to a plurality of public search engines and to a plurality of social media sites via the cloud communications network the plurality of pre-determined search index structures stored in the plurality of cloud storage objects, wherein communication with a desired person being publically searched for is on a private system for which another person searching for and desiring to communicate with the desired person must provide login information on the private system to communicate with the desired person, providing a second level of privacy and a level of security for public search and private communication for the desired person by requiring the another person to provide login information on the private system to communicate with the desired person; and

accepting public search requests for any of the plurality of individual people, wherein the public search requests allow any other person on the cloud communications network to publically search for and privately communicate with any of the plurality of individual people directly searching by name or searching by using the search categories and keywords uniquely created by the plurality of individual people or searching by social search index values calculated for the plurality of individual people, and

providing the plurality of layers of privacy and the level of security for public searching and private communication for any of the plurality of individual people;

receiving on the first cloud application from a first target application on a first target network device via the cloud communications network a request to communicate with a desired person from the plurality of individual people located using one or more search categories or one or more keywords uniquely created by the desired person;

creating automatically from the first cloud application a new social commerce connection between the desired person and a first user sending the connection request from the first target network device;

storing from the first cloud application the new social commerce connection in a pre-determined search index structure in the stored cloud storage objects for the desired person;

re-calculating automatically from the first cloud application one or more social media index values and one or more social search index values associated with the desired person based on the request to communicate;

storing from the first cloud application the re-calculated one or more social search index values and the re-calculated social media index values in the pre-determined search index structure in the stored cloud storage objects for the desired person;

sending from the first cloud application to the first application on the first target network device a private connection request via the cloud communications network, wherein the private connection request requires the first user of the first target network device to enter login information to log into the private system to privately communicate with the desired person.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the first target network device is a smartphone or a tablet computer and the first target application is a smart application for the smartphone or tablet computer.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving on the first cloud application from a first target application on a first target network device via the cloud communications network a request to communicate with a desired person from the plurality of individual people located using a social media index value;

creating automatically from the first cloud application a new social commerce connection between the desired person and a person sending the connection request from the first target network device;

storing from the first cloud application the new social commerce connection in a pre-determined search index structure in stored cloud storage objects for desired person;

re-calculating automatically from the first cloud application one or more social media index values and one or more social search index values associated with the desired person based on the request to communicate;

storing from the first cloud application the re-calculated one or more social media index values and the re-calculated social search index values in the pre-determined search index structure in the stored cloud storage objects for the desired person;

sending from the first cloud application to the first target application on the first target network device a private connection request via the cloud communications network, wherein the private connection request requires a user of the first target network device to enter information to log into a private system to privately communicate the desired person.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving on the first cloud application from a first target application on a first target network device via the cloud communications network a request to communicate with a desired person from the plurality of individual people located using a social commerce connection;

re-calculating automatically from the first cloud application one or more social media index values and one or more social search index values associated with the desired person based on the request to communicate;

storing from the first cloud application the re-calculated one or more social search index values and the re-calculated social media index values in the pre-determined search index structure in the stored cloud storage objects for the desired person; and

sending from the first cloud application to the first target application on the first target network device a private connection request via the cloud communications network, wherein the private connection request requires a user of the first target network device to enter information to log into a private system to privately communicate with the desired person.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the social commerce connection includes a social linking connection and an e-commerce connection.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving on the first cloud application from an advertiser on another network device with one or more processors a request to provide electronic advertising to selected ones of the plurality of individual people included in the plurality of pre-determined search index structures stored in the plurality of cloud storage objects based on a desired social media index value or unique search keywords or search criteria created by plurality of individual people or social commerce connection;

providing from the first cloud application electronic advertising to selected ones of the target network devices of the plurality of individual people included in the plurality of pre-determined search index structures stored in the plurality of cloud storage objects based on the desired social media index value or unique search keywords or search criteria created by plurality of individual people or social commerce connection;

receiving on the first cloud application one or more electronic indications from one or more selected ones of the target network devices of the individual people who view the electronic advertising for the advertiser;

creating automatically from the first cloud application a new social commerce connection between any of the ones of the plurality of individual people who view the electronic advertising and the advertiser; and

providing from the first cloud application an electronic payment to an electronic account on the first cloud server network device for any of the selected ones of the plurality of individual people who view the electronic advertising.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of storing from the first cloud application the received plurality of electronic information for the plurality of individual people in a plurality of pre-determined search index structures in a plurality of cloud storage objects includes:

translating automatically from the first cloud application the received plurality of information into a plurality of different supported languages; and

storing from the first cloud application the translated plurality of information in the plurality of cloud storage objects, wherein the translated plurality of information is available globally for searching in the plurality of supported languages from anywhere on the cloud communications network.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the social media ecosystem includes a community of participates and searchers in conjunction with technology components of a cloud communications environment comprising server network devices, gateways, routers, switches, wired interfaces, wireless interfaces and target network devices interacting and cooperating as a social media ecosystem.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of social media index values are calculated with at least a four-dimensional (4D) or four deep social media index entity.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein a desired person is located using unique search words or search criteria created by the desired person and with cascading searching and posted publically for review to public search engines and social media sites and wherein communication with the desired person is on a private system for which another person desiring to privately communicate with the desired person must provide login information to communicate, thereby ensuring a social media index value and social commerce connections for the desired person are properly updated and established.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the cloud storage object includes Representational state transfer (REST), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) cloud storage objects.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the target network devices include smartphones and tablet computers.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the target network devices include a smart application for social media ecosystem searching.

14. The method of claim 1 the cloud server network device and the plurality of target network devices include a wireless networking interface comprising:

a Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN), Radio Frequency (RF), IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.15.4 (ZigBee), 802.16a, 802.16g, Wireless Fidelity (WiFi), High Performance Radio Metropolitan Area Network (HIPERMAN) RF Home, Bluetooth, Infrared (IrDA), Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID), Internet Protocol (IP), Voice over IP (VoIP), Short Message Service (SMS) or Instant Message (IM), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) with 4^th generation (4G) or faster wireless speeds, a Near Field Communications (NFC), or a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) wireless networking interface for communicating with the cloud communications network.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of providing access from the first cloud application to the plurality of public search engines and to the plurality of social media sites via the cloud communications network, includes providing access to a plurality of public search engines including general search engines and vertical search engine services and the plurality of social media sites include a plurality of social networking sites, social couponing sites and social dating web-sites and the cloud communications network further includes cable television networks (CATV), satellite television networks (SATV), three-dimensional television (3DTV) networks, Internet television networks, Web-TV networks or Internet Protocol Television (IPtv) networks.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein the cloud communications network includes on-demand social media ecosystem search services, broadband network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured network services for social media ecosystem search services.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein the first cloud application offers a cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), a cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) and offers a Specific cloud software service as a Service (SaaS) including a specific cloud software service for social media ecosystem searching.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein a plurality of instructions for causing one or more processors on one or more network devices for executing the steps of:

receiving a plurality of electronic information from a plurality of target applications on a plurality of target network devices each with one or more processors on a first cloud application stored in a first non-transitory computer readable medium on a cloud server network device with the one or more processors via a cloud communications network comprising;

one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks,

wherein the plurality of electronic information includes a plurality of personal electronic information input into the plurality of target network devices by a plurality of individual people using search categories and search keywords uniquely created by the plurality of individual people, and creates a first level of privacy for the plurality of individual people for public searching based on the search categories and search keywords uniquely created by the plurality of individual people;

storing from the first cloud application the received plurality of electronic information for the plurality of individual people in a plurality of pre-determined search index structures in a plurality of cloud storage objects;

calculating from the first cloud application a plurality of social search index values for the plurality of pre-determined search index structures with the electronic information from the stored plurality of cloud storage objects and by calculating a plurality of numeric social media index values from a (X)dimensional entity of social commerce connections for each of the plurality of individual people with each dimension in the (X)dimensional entity assigned a pre-determined numeric percentage and with a smallest dimension(1) in the (X)dimensional entity assigned a largest numeric percentage and including a set of highest value social connections for an individual person and a largest dimension(X) in the (X)dimensional entity assigned a smallest numeric percentage and including a set of lowest value social connections for the individual person;

storing from the first cloud application the calculated social search index values and the calculated social media index values in the plurality of pre-determined search index structures in the stored plurality of cloud storage objects;

translating from the first cloud application the received plurality of information into a plurality of different supported languages;

storing from the first cloud application the translated plurality of information in the plurality of cloud storage objects, wherein the translated plurality of information is available globally for searching in the plurality of supported languages from anywhere on the cloud communications network;

providing access from the first cloud application for the plurality of pre-determined search index structures stored in the plurality of cloud storage objects to a plurality of public search engines and to a plurality of social media sites via the cloud communications network, wherein communication with a desired person being publically searched for is on a private system for which another person searching for and desiring to communicate with the desired person must provide login information on the private system to communicate with the desired person, providing a second level of privacy and a level of security for public search and private communication for the desired person by requiring the another person to provide login information on the private system to communicate with the desired person;

accepting public search requests for any of the plurality of individual people, wherein the public search requests allow any other person on the cloud communications network to publically search for and privately communicate with any of the plurality of individual people directly searching by name or searching by using the search categories and keywords uniquely created by the plurality of individual people or searching by social search index values calculated for the plurality of individual people, and providing the plurality of layers of privacy and the level of security for public searching and private communication for any of the plurality of individual people;

receiving on the first cloud application from a first target application on first target network device via the cloud communications network a request to communicate with a desired person from the plurality of individual people using one or more search categories or one or more keywords uniquely created by the desired person or a social media index value or a social commerce connection of the desired person;

creating automatically from the first cloud application a new social commerce connection between the desired person and a first user sending the connection request from the first target network device;

storing from the first cloud application the new social commerce connection in a pre-determined search index structure in the stored cloud storage objects for the desired person;

re-calculating from the first cloud application the social media index value associated with the desired person based on the request to communicate;

storing from the first cloud application the re-calculated social search index values in the pre-determined search index structure in the stored cloud storage objects for the desired person;

sending from the first cloud application to the first application on the first target network device a private connection request via the cloud communications network, wherein the private connection request requires a user of the first target network device to enter information to log into a private system to privately communicate with the desired person;

receiving on the first cloud application from an advertiser on another network device with one or more processors a request to provide electronic advertising to selected ones of the plurality of individual people included in the plurality of pre-determined search index structures stored in the plurality of cloud storage objects based on a desired social media index value or unique search keywords or search criteria created by plurality of individual people or social commerce connection;

providing from the first cloud application electronic advertising to selected ones of the target network devices of the plurality of individual people included in the plurality of pre-determined search index structures stored in the plurality of cloud storage objects based on the desired social media index value or unique search keywords or search criteria created by plurality of individual people or social commerce connection;

receiving on the first cloud application one or more electronic indications from one or more selected ones of the target network devices of the individual people who view the electronic advertising for the advertiser;

creating automatically from the first cloud application a new social commerce connection between any of the ones of the plurality of individual people who view the electronic advertising and the advertiser;

providing from the first cloud application an electronic payment to an electronic account on the first cloud server network device for any of the selected ones of the plurality of individual people who view the electronic advertising.

19. A system for social media ecosystem searching, comprising in combination:

a cloud communications network;

one or more network devices with one or more processors including a plurality of instructions configured;

for receiving a plurality electronic information from a plurality of target applications on a plurality of target network devices each with one or more processors on a first cloud application stored in a first non-transitory computer readable medium on a cloud server network device with the one or more processors via the cloud communications network comprising;

one or more public communication networks, one or more private networks, one or more community networks and one or more hybrid networks,

wherein the plurality of electronic information includes a plurality of personal electronic information input into the plurality of target network devices by a plurality of individual people using search categories and search keywords uniquely created by the plurality of individual people, and creates a first level of privacy for the plurality of individual people for public searching based on the search categories and search keywords uniquely created by the plurality of individual people;

for storing from the first cloud application the received plurality of electronic information for the plurality of individual people in a plurality of pre-determined search index structures in a plurality of cloud storage objects;

for calculating from the first cloud application a plurality of social search index values for the plurality of pre-determined search index structures with the electronic information from the stored plurality of cloud storage objects and by calculating a plurality of numeric social media index values from a (X)dimensional entity of social commerce connections for each of the plurality of individual people with each dimension in the (X)dimensional entity assigned a pre-determined numeric percentage and with a smallest dimension(1) in the (X)dimensional entity assigned a largest numeric percentage and including a set of highest value social connections for an individual person and a largest dimension(X) in the (X)dimensional entity assigned a smallest numeric percentage and including a set of lowest value social connections for the individual person;

for storing from the first cloud application the calculated social search index values and the calculated social media index values in the plurality of pre-determined search index structures in the stored plurality of cloud storage objects;

for translating from the first cloud application the received plurality of information into a plurality of different supported languages;

for storing from the first cloud application the translated plurality of information in the plurality of cloud storage objects, wherein the translated plurality of information is available globally for searching in the plurality of supported languages from anywhere on the cloud communications network;

for providing access from the first cloud application for the plurality of pre-determined search index structures stored in the plurality of cloud storage objects to a plurality of public search engines and to a plurality of social media sites via the cloud communications network, wherein communication with a desired person being publically searched for is on a private system for which another person searching for and desiring to communicate with the desired person must provide login information on the private system to communicate with the desired person, providing a second level of privacy and a level of security for public search and private communication for the desired person by requiring the another person to provide login information on the private system to communicate with the desired person;

for accepting public search requests for any of the plurality of individual people, wherein the public search requests allow any other person on the cloud communications network to publically search for and privately communicate with any of the plurality of individual people directly searching by name or searching by using the search categories and keywords uniquely created by the plurality of individual people or searching by social search index values calculated for the plurality of individual people, and providing the plurality of layers of privacy and the level of security for public searching and private communication for any of the plurality of individual people;

for receiving on the first cloud application from a first target application on first target network device via the cloud communications network a request to communicate with a desired person from the plurality of individual people using one or more search categories or one or more keywords uniquely created by the desired person or a social media index value or a social commerce connection of the desired person;

for creating automatically from the first cloud application a new social commerce connection between the desired person and a first user sending the connection request from the first target network device;

for storing from the first cloud application the new social commerce connection in a pre-determined search index structure in the stored cloud storage objects for the desired person;

for re-calculating from the first cloud application the social media index value associated with the desired person based on the request to communicate;

for storing from the first cloud application the re-calculated social search index values in the pre-determined search index structure in the stored cloud storage objects for the desired person;

for sending from the first cloud application to the first application on the first target network device a private connection request via the cloud communications network, wherein the private connection request requires a user of the first target network device to enter information to log into a private system to privately communicate with the desired person;

for receiving on the first cloud application from an advertiser on another network device with one or more processors a request to provide electronic advertising to selected ones of the plurality of individual people included in the plurality of pre-determined search index structures stored in the plurality of cloud storage objects based on a desired social media index value or unique search keywords or search criteria created by plurality of individual people or social commerce connection;

for providing from the first cloud application electronic advertising to selected ones of the target network devices of the plurality of individual people included in the plurality of pre-determined search index structures stored in the plurality of cloud storage objects based on the desired social media index value or unique search keywords or search criteria created by plurality of individual people or social commerce connection;

for receiving on the first cloud application one or more electronic indications from one or more selected ones of the target network devices of the individual people who view the electronic advertising for the advertiser;

for creating automatically from the first cloud application a new social commerce connection between any of the ones of the plurality of individual people who view the electronic advertising and the advertiser;

for providing from the first cloud application an electronic payment to an electronic account on the first cloud server network device for any of the selected ones of the plurality of individual people who view the electronic advertising.