Abstract: Method for requesting and sharing purchases, recommendations, and reviews. Initial user input may be received requesting purchases, recommendations, or reviews and specifying one or more friends and/or family and/or their contact information. A message containing the request may be automatically created and transmitted. User input responding to said request may be received. A message containing the response may be automatically created and transmitted to the requester. Additionally, or alternatively, initial user input may be received specifying a purchase, recommendation, or review to be shared and specifying one or more friends and/or family and/or their contact information. A message containing the user input may be automatically created and transmitted. In one embodiment, said messages may be transmitted via email or social network, saved to user accounts, and accessed via the internet.

Abstract: A website platform focused around sharing needs or offers amongst people of similar residence and/or origin allows users to locate and engage diasporas across the world. This global platform provides each user to interact amongst each other through a plurality of communication, and development resources. Some of these resources are: the ability of send and receive messages; the ability to view, organize, and manage a user's contacts list, and the ability to create and join networking groups. One of the most important resources is the ability to create and add needs/offer posts to a common board that can be seen by all users. This allows users to view opportunities on need/offer posts that could connect diaspora users of any residence or origin. This international diaspora platform provides a unique environment that addresses some of the crucial problems associated with human migration or movement across the globe.

Abstract: An on-line system utilizing a social graph allows users to establish an account with the system and establish connections to nodes in the system. The social graph uses system-provided nodes that are created and maintained by the system, so that users cannot edit the system-provided nodes. The system aggregates and analyzes the social graph to present information in ways useful to its users. For example, the system generates a listing of persons and information about persons related to an organization.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention comprise systems, computer program products, and methods for a financial and social management system that provides improved tracking and management related to how, where, when, and with whom a user enters into activities. The financial and social management system captures activity information and images from various sources of information, including but not limited to social networking accounts, e-receipts, location determination devices, and the like, and associates the activity information and images with the activities. The financial and social management system may tag the activities with activity information, such as location, social relationship, entity, and category information.

Abstract: A computer implemented method performs an IT service management operation such as analyzing a problem, associated with an entity configuration in a domain having an ontology, wherein each entity has relationships with other entities. Information provided by the ontology is used to create a specified question pertaining to the operation. It is then determined whether an answer to the question is initially available. Responsive to an answer being initially available, information provided by the initially available answer and the ontology, selectively, is used to create a second question, wherein the second question pertains to the operation and is directed to one of the entities. Responsive to an answer to the specified question not being initially available, a crowdsourcing technique is used to seek an answer to the specified question.

Abstract: A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). The present invention provides a system, method, and computer program product for creating an ad hoc association between users. Captured digital images of paper documents or portions associated with a user are received. Document recognition features are extracted from the captured digital image. An ad hoc association is created between the user and another user associated with an existing document recognition feature similar to the extracted document recognition features.

Abstract: Systems and methods to define a social network for a user using data implied by communications of the user with others. In one embodiment, a method includes scanning a set of messages (e.g., emails to and from a user of a client device) to identify a plurality of primary persons addressed in the messages as a primary recipient and to identify a plurality of secondary persons addressed in the messages as a secondary recipient; mapping the primary persons to a plurality of friends and mapping the secondary persons to a plurality of other persons; and defining a social network model based on the friends and other persons, wherein the model comprises a friends category including the friends and an all category including the friends and other persons.

Abstract: A method and system for providing computer application support. The method comprises determining a set of installed applications on a source computer using a software manager module executing on a computer, generating a set of usage information for the set of installed applications on the one or more source computers, deriving a set of analysis results from the usage information using a software analysis module executing on a computer, generating a list of applications from the set of analysis results using the software analysis module, and providing the list to a destination computer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to computer-implemented services and user interfaces for allowing users to send a request or message to another user or anyone with an email address without disclosing her or her identity, match friends, tag people with certain attributes to generate a social percentile, and review connections. The invention also relates to methods for sending a request or message anonymously, generating a social percentile with attribute tagging, reviewing individuals and matching a member with another individual.

Abstract: A statistically overrepresented token in the descriptions of users associated with a target entity may be descriptive of the target entity. This may be true regardless of whether a primary description of the entity includes the overrepresented token. Accordingly, the entity description machine may access multiple descriptions of multiple users associated with the target entity. A portion of the multiple descriptions may each include a token descriptive of the target entity and of a subset of the multiple users. The entity description machine may determine that the token is overrepresented among the tokens within the multiple descriptions and generate a supplemental description of the target entity, where the supplemental description includes the overrepresented token. Once the supplemental description is generated, the entity description machine may use the supplemental description in referencing the target entity.

Abstract: A professional networking system is provided. The system includes a plurality of member websites, each being associated with a member of the professional networking system, and each having a unique domain name. The system further includes a professional networking application that is hosted at least partially on a server and electronically accessible over at least one network system to at least one member computer device. The professional networking application is configured to provide members controlling access to their respective associated websites of the plurality of member websites. A member recommendation module is further included that is configured to receive from a member a recommendation for another member and to facilitate display of the recommendation on a website associated with the recommended member.

Abstract: Disclosed in one example is a method for interfacing with multiple social networks. The method includes receiving a call from a social networking service agnostic social networking application for one of a plurality of social networking functions in a first format, translating the call in the first format to a call in a second format, the second format being one of a plurality of heterogeneous social networking service application programming interface formats, and passing the call in the second format to a first social networking service by utilizing a first social networking service application programming interface.

Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for visualizing message-related relationships within a social network is provided. Entities associated with a group of messages are identified. A social network is built based on a relationship of the entities and messages by connecting those entities that share at least one of the messages from the group. A representation of the social network is generated by representing each message with a node. The nodes are organized based on at least one characteristic of the messages.

Abstract: An online address book is configured to include a multi-user input bar to receive search items intended to match contacts existing in a user's contact list. If a search term does not match any entry in the current contact list the search is extended by the multi-user input bar to include further candidate contacts. Candidate contacts are acquired through social profiles available from a set of networking sites linked-to over the Internet. A candidate contact that does match the search term is added to the contact list with a public profile whose contents are populated with contact data acquired from social profiles available through the networking sites. This practice of profile bookmarking may be applied iteratively across candidate contacts from various networking sites to build an extensive public profile.

Abstract: A system and method for measuring user affinity in a social network environment is provided. One or more activities performed by a user associated with a social network environment are monitored. A relationship associated with the one or more activities is identified. An affinity for one or more objects associated with the social network environment is then determined based on the one or more activities and the relationship.

Abstract: Call handling options are selected for calls using social network data that is descriptive of the relationship of a caller to a call recipient in a social networking platform. An identifier for a calling device is used to access social network data that is descriptive of a relationship of the caller to the call recipient in the social networking platform. A call handling option for a call is selected, from among multiple, different call handling options, based on the social network data that is descriptive of the relationship of the caller to the call recipient in the social networking platform.

Abstract: An electronic process for presenting interpersonal relationship analysis includes: receiving recorded responses of a plurality of users to selected stimuli, such recorded responses comprising indications of traits and preferences that are not explicitly identified in the recorded response; generating match profile data at least partially from the response; and presenting potential matches to a first user based on a compatibility score generated from correlating match profile data of the plurality of users with the match profile data of the first user.

Abstract: A system and method for identifying an author of a social media interaction. A social media profile may be received for a user interacting in a social media interaction in a social media environment. The social media profile may include identification parameter(s) defining personal information registered to the user in the social media environment and content parameter(s) defining content of the user's social media interaction. For each of a plurality of customers registered in a contact center environment, a contact center profile may be received for the customer including identification parameter(s) defining personal information registered to the customer in the contact center environment and content parameter(s) defining content of the customer's past contact center interactions. The user's social media profile and customer's contact center profile may be compared to determine if the social media user and contact center customer have the same identity.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for social network relationship mapping. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes identifying one or more terms within content displayed to a user; for each identified term: transmitting the identified term to one or more social networking servers supporting a social networking application, in response to transmitting the identified term to the social networking servers, receiving from the social networking servers a list of people that correspond with the identified term, directing a display device to display the list of people that correspond with the identified term, and in response to user input, adding an identification of a person from the list of people to a mapping clipboard; directing the display device to display a relationship graph that indicates how people identified in the mapping clipboard are connected to each other in the social networking application.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes one or more computing systems that implement a social networking environment and are operable to access stored information including a plurality of nodes including a first set of user nodes that each correspond to a respective user and a second set of concept nodes that each correspond to a respective concept. The system may generate a match coefficient for the user and concept, representing the degree of relevance of a particular concept node to a particular user node.

Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure include providing a suggested social circle includes generating a list of contacts who, based on first predetermined criteria, are to be considered for potential inclusion in a social circle to be suggested to a particular user and generating an edge and vertex-weighted graph representation that indicates a strength of the particular user's affinity to each of the contacts. A set of vertices in the graph that has a high overall score based on predetermined factors is identified. After determining that the contacts corresponding to the identified set of vertices should be presented as a suggested social circle to the particular user, social circle data corresponding to the suggested social circle is transmitted, to a client device associated with the particular user, to display a representation of the suggested social circle on the client device.

Abstract: A computer-implemented matching service matches users to other users, and/or to user communities, based at least in part on a computer analysis of event data reflective of user behaviors. The event data may, for example, evidence user affinities for particular items represented in an electronic catalog, such as book titles, music titles, movie titles, and/or other types of items that tend to reflect the traits of users. Event data reflective of other types of user actions, such as item-detail-page viewing events, browse node visits, search query submissions, and/or web browsing patterns may additionally or alternatively be considered. By taking such event data into consideration, the matching service reduces the burden on users to explicitly supply personal profile information, and reduces poor results caused by exaggerations and other inaccuracies in such profile information.

Abstract: Techniques for using a social media integration platform include receiving a request from a business system to interact with a social media system executing on a social media platform; integrating, using the social media integration platform, the request between the business system and the social media system by translating the request from the business system to a social media request compliant with the social media platform, wherein the social media integration platform is configured to translate requests between at least one type of business system and a plurality of different types of social media platforms; and sending the social media request to the social media system.

Abstract: A person, registered at an affinity system, is associated with characteristics describing him/herself, and with at least one set of characteristics describing other persons of interest to the registered person (“desired match descriptions”). The desired characteristics may include that a person is looking for a characteristic. Some of the characteristics may be provided by an expertise system including expertise ratings and rarity ratings. The expertise system determines a characteristic via its own methodology, such as tests or other verifications. The expertise system can be internal or external to the affinity system, and there can be more than one expertise system. When a person checks-in at a location, physically or virtually, the affinity system identifies persons of mutual interest. If each of the registered persons agrees, they both are enabled to contact each other.

Abstract: A social graph is built which includes interactions, sharing activity, and connections between the users of the open Web and can be used to improve ad targeting and content personalization. Sharing activity between two users will affect ads or content that both users will be presented while surfing the Web. This sharing activity includes sending of links, sending of videos, sending of files, cutting and pasting of content, sending text messages, and sending of e-mails. Building of the social graph can include creating an edge in the social graph that is representative of a particular category type.

Abstract: Disclosed is a network user action-driven support computation method and system that receives, from a first user, a user image that may then be supplied as a feed on a social network, receives a designation associating a charitable fund with the user image, obtains automatically, as a first value, a number of network user actions entered in response to the user image, for example, by users selecting “like” or sharing the user image, and computes and reports a donation amount to the charitable fund based on the first value. The user images may be electronic photo albums, image albums, or videos of the first user, and may be displayed to users connected on the social network to the first user as an electronic feed that includes an identification of the charitable fund adjacent to or juxtaposed with the user image.

Abstract: A disclosed example method to determine audience duplication in cross-media campaigns involves determining a first duplicated audience reach between a total television audience and an internet publisher audience for a demographic group. The total television audience is representative of audience members across a plurality of television networks, and the internet publisher audience is representative of audience members across one of a plurality of internet publishers. The example method involves determining a second duplicated audience reach between the total television audience and the internet publisher audience for a media campaign based on the first duplicated audience reach. The example method involves determining a third duplicated audience reach between a television network audience and the internet publisher audience for the media campaign based on the second duplicated audience reach.

Abstract: A system and method for searching information based on crowd-sourced templates comprising a user input subsystem for entering one or more search terms, a database for storing a plurality of crowd-sourced templates, wherein each template is a representation of a data collection process from a plurality of sources. Subsequent search entries with tags results in display of stored templates in descending order of rank. Templates may be ranked using crowd voting or their social relevancy. Templates may be viewed, edited, and stored on the database by other users through social network sites.

Abstract: Methods for optimizing social media are disclosed. Such methods may include identifying at least one keyword utilized for at least one webpage, identifying social media correspondence referencing the at least one keyword, analyzing content collected from the social media to determine a frequency of references to the at least one keyword and generating at least one report including information based on the analysis. The report may include recommendations for optimizing social media by, for example, purchasing paid posts or links on a social media website. Systems for performing the methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A social networking system determines whether a user is a real public figure or is the correct “public persona” of an individual who is famous within a particular domain. The system selects one or more trusted agents. A trusted agent is a user who has been confirmed or is otherwise trusted within the system. The system traverses the social graph of the trusted agent to score and identify additional users who have a sufficient connection to the trusted agent to authenticate them as other confirmed public personas/figures. The system computes confidence scores of the connections of the trusted agent, considering the strength of the connections and other relevant factors. The system provides confidence scores for one or more target users in the social network based on the confidence scores of the friends or connections connecting the trusted agent and the target user.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of managing a chat experience of a user desiring to chat with a selected one of a plurality of businesses utilizes in various aspects a chat management server running computer processes for communicating with user devices. In another aspect, a computer-implemented method of providing a chat experience to a user having a user device and desiring to chat with a selected one of a plurality of businesses utilizes computer processes running on the user device. Corresponding embodiments similarly provide an apparatus performing any of the foregoing methods. Other corresponding embodiments similarly provide a computer readable medium storing instructions, which when loaded into a computer, perform processes corresponding to any of the foregoing methods.

Abstract: A system and method for item-based social discovery are provided. In example embodiments, entity data that associates respective items of a plurality of items with respective entities of a plurality of entities is stored, each entity of the plurality of entities being registered at a social network service. An item indication, generated in response to a user action of a user, that indicates a user affinity for a mutual item is received, the user being registered at the social network service. A suggested entity from among the plurality of entities is identified by matching the mutual item with respective items of the plurality of items. The suggested entity does not have a social network relationship on the social network service with the user. Causing recommendation of a new social network relationship on the social network service between the user and the suggested member entity.

Abstract: Various implementations described herein are directed to a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, may cause the computer to automatically receiving fishing data recorded during a fishing trip. The computer may receive a selection of a first group of subscribers that can access the fishing data. The computer may grant permissions to the first group of subscribers to access the fishing data.

Abstract: Managing an initial post on a website includes identifying an initial post on website where the initial post is for an event, identifying a related post that describes the event after the event occurs, and updating the initial post to include content of the related post.

Abstract: A system for polling people connected to a network includes an end user electronic device connected to another electronic device via a network. A user enters a survey question into the end user's device and submits it to the another electronic device via the network. The another electronic device receives the survey question and displays it. In response to an answer given to the poll question on the another electronic device, the another electronic device submits the answer to the end user electronic device via the network.

Abstract: A posting module enables a user to specify information for a first date posting, including a first date venue. Optionally, a database is accessed and information related to the first date venue is received. The first date posting is optionally populated with information specified by the first user and at least a portion of the information received via the database. A search engine may identify the first date posting at least partly in response to an action of a second user, and provide the first date posting for display to the second user. A module is configured to cause an invitation control to be displayed to the second user in association with the first date posting, detect the second user activating the invitation control, and cause an invitation, to go on a date corresponding to the first date posting of the first user, to be presented to the first user.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of managing a chat experience of a user desiring to chat with a selected one of a plurality of businesses or chat hosts utilizes in various aspects a chat management server running computer processes for communicating with user devices. In another aspect, a computer-implemented method of providing a chat experience to a user having a user device and desiring to chat with a selected one of a plurality of businesses utilizes computer processes running on the user device. Corresponding embodiments similarly provide an apparatus performing any of the foregoing methods. Other corresponding embodiments similarly provide a computer readable medium storing instructions, which when loaded into a computer, perform processes corresponding to any of the foregoing methods.

Abstract: While using an online application, information received or selected by a user is associated with a context. For example, a search query is received from a user and the search query is associated with a context. The user is provided with a recommendation to join a discussion forum that corresponds to the context, thereby dynamically aggregating users. The recommendation may be provided conditionally, if predefined criteria are satisfied. Alternately, in some embodiments a recommendation may be made unconditionally.

Abstract: Techniques to promote messages in a social networking services to increase communication opportunities while throttling unsolicited messages are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may have a message generation component and a message delivery component. The message generation component may be operative to receive a request from a first member of a social networking service (SNS) to send a message for a second member of the SNS. The message delivery component may be operative to deliver the message to one of multiple mailboxes for the second member based on a tiered payment schedule. The tiered payment schedule may include a first parameter to represent a relationship type between the first and second members, a second parameter to represent a subscriber tier for the second member, and a third parameter to represent a promotional cost associated with the subscriber tier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A notification machine may receive an update to a user profile that describes a user and indicates a group of users as being socially connected to the user by a social network. The update may reference a community (e.g., an employer or a club) of the user. The user profile may be modified by including a reference to the community within the user profile. The notification machine may identify a further user who is included in the community (e.g., employed by the employer, or part of the club). The further user may be socially unconnected to the user by the social network. The notification machine may then generate and provide a notification that the further user is employed by the employer. This notification may contain suggestions that the user initiate communication with the further user, become socially connected with the further user, or both.

Abstract: An event integrating and displaying method for an electronic apparatus is disclosed. The method includes the follow steps: collecting a plurality of events established by different sources; calculating an event similarity between any two target events of the plurality of events to determine whether the event similarity exceeds a defined value, wherein the event similarity is obtained from calculating a time similarity, a location similarity, and an attendance similarity between the two target events; if the event similarity exceeds the defined value, integrating the two target events into an identical event.

Abstract: An apparatus, and an associated method, automatically calculates and assigns policy settings to be implemented at mobile stations. Information is collected relating to groups, such as groups within an enterprise, to which users of the mobile stations are members. Policy-setting conflicts between different groups, if the user is a member of more than one group, are reconciled, and the policy settings that are assigned are of reconciled settings.

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method of organizing a plurality of data recipients subscribed to receive information from a leader. An example method may include receiving a plurality of response messages from at least a portion of the plurality of data recipients, and determining a decrease in the plurality of response messages received from the at least a portion of the plurality of data recipients based on a previous number of response messages received. The method may also include removing at least one data recipient from the plurality of data recipients and adding the removed at least one data recipient to a new group of data recipients responsive to the decrease in the plurality of response messages received.

Abstract: In one aspect, a system includes: an indexing engine for indexing a plurality of sources of content, receiving a search query and returning search results; a ranking engine for ranking search results to produce ranked results, the ranking engine coupled to receive search results from the indexing engine; a modification engine for generating modified results using information from additional sources and the ranked results, the modification engine coupled to receive the ranked results from the ranking engine, the modification engine coupled to receive the information from the additional sources; and a presentation engine for sending modified results and an annotation, the presentation engine coupled to receive modified results and the annotation from the modification engine, the presentation engine coupled to provide the modified results and the annotation to a client device. The present disclosure also includes a method for retrieving social videos.

Abstract: Computer-implemented pet adoption systems, methods and computer program products improve the process of matching up prospective adopters with available animals by optimizing the number of pet profiles displayed to prospective adopters per page, providing authorized personal with different selectable rules for setting the order in which the animal profiles are displayed to the prospective adopter in order to work toward specific adoption goals of the animal shelter, and using historical usage and user-profile data to gauge the probability of adoption between a prospective adopter and the available animals. The probabilistic analysis is used for the purpose of ranking or filtering the pool of pet profiles in order to remove pets of lower adoption-probability from consideration or present them lower down in the displayed order of the profiles.

Abstract: Methods and systems for leveraging one's social network in the context of an opportunities marketplace are described. One aspect of the invention involves integrating social networking features into an online marketplace, or exchange. Accordingly, one aspect of the invention involves facilitating an opportunity search in a manner that provides social networking information with the results of the search.

Abstract: A system, computer program, and method for storing and sharing images such as photographs via a communications network (16) and for permitting the identification of objects within the images. The invention allows the identification of objects such as persons within the photos without requiring the person submitting the photos to type in identification information for each and every photo in a photo album. The invention also allows users to automatically share their photos with others and to automatically search for photos and/or certain people in photos.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for detecting social relationships across multiple networks and/or communication channels. These social relationships may then be utilized in a wide variety of ways to support and enhance a broad range of user services.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computing device of a social-networking system may receive from a computing device of a first user of the social-networking system information acquired by the computing device of the first user from a tag associated with a second user of the social-networking system. The tag may encode a time stamp, a signature, and a social action on the social-networking system. The computing device of the social-networking system may verify the signature and, if the signature is verified, then initiate the social action.

Abstract: An online match-making system, such as a smartphone or tablet application and supporting network, which is configured to promote contact between users when a mutual interest has been determined. Profiles are received from (and maintained in) a database. A user can view the different profiles, such as by viewing at least one picture associated with each profile. As the user views the different profiles or pictures, the user can indicate to the system whether or not he or she is interested in that person associated with the profile being viewed. The system keeps track of instances where a user indicates an interest in a given profile (i.e., interest in another person). When that other person logs onto the system, that other person is informed whether other users have indicated an interest, and is presented with profiles, wherein a proportion of the first plurality of profiles which are presented correspond to users who have previously indicated an interest in that person.