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Suggesting a discussion group based on indexing of the posts within that discussion group

  • US 9,319,479 B2
  • Filed: 10/26/2010
  • Issued: 04/19/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method in a computing system for recommending a post to a member of a community comprising:

  • receiving a message to post to a first discussion group; and

    in response to receiving the message,searching a plurality of existing posts in a second discussion group that is different from the first discussion group to identify one or more posts that are similar to the received message based on a comparison of a keyword of a subject of the message and the keywords derived from content of the existing posts; and

    for at least one of the identified posts that is similar to the received message,identifying a member who posted the identified post that is similar to the received message; and

    presenting to the identified member the received message as a post in which the member may be interested;

    wherein the first discussion group and the second discussion group are online discussion groups having posts of messages.

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