Social platform with enhanced privacy and integrated customization features

a social platform and privacy technology, applied in the field of computer networks, can solve the problems of affecting business, affecting the business, and avoiding social networking altogether, and achieve the effects of empowering nuanced levels of access to individual employees, enhancing privacy control, and inherently being sa

Inactive Publication Date: 2015-05-28
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[0005]Embodiments of the present invention a social networking platform offering various services, including, but not limited to: 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 us...

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Currently, users almost have no choice to enjoy the social networking experience without having to endure undesirable exposure to advertisement and/or breach of privacy, resulting in a lot of potential users avoiding social networking altogether.
This shortcoming may actually h...

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[0029]The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings, which are provided as illustrative examples of the invention so as to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. Notably, the figures and examples below are not meant to limit the scope of the present invention to a single embodiment, but other embodiments are possible by way of interchange of some or all of the described or illustrated elements. Moreover, where certain elements of the present invention can be partially or fully implemented using known components, only those portions of such known components that are necessary for an understanding of the present invention will be described, and detailed descriptions of other portions of such known components will be omitted so as not to obscure the invention. Embodiments described as being implemented in software should not be limited thereto, but can include embodiments implemented in hardware, or combinations of software and...

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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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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to computer networks, and more particularly systems and methods related to social networking with enhanced control over privacy and customization based on user preference.BACKGROUND[0002]Conventional social networks (such as Facebook® and LinkedIn®) provide a variety of features, sometimes free of charge and often on a “freemium” model, to attract users to their site, but almost all of the social network platform providers retain a level of control on user content which may compromise a user's privacy. In an attempt to commercially monetize data extracted from the user's interaction on their sites, the platform providers make the data available to advertisement services / retailers / wholesalers. Currently, users almost have no choice to enjoy the social networking experience without having to endure undesirable exposure to advertisement and / or breach of privacy, resulting in a lot of potential users avoiding social networking al...

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IPC IPC(8): H04L12/58G06Q50/00G06Q30/02
CPCH04L51/32G06Q50/01G06Q30/0257G06Q30/02H04L51/214H04L51/212H04L51/216H04L51/52H04L67/10G06Q20/04H04L69/329
Inventor WOLFE, JONATHANWEINSTEIN, MARK
Owner SGRPLES
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