274 results about "Mobile social network" patented technology

An online social networking system can be used to rank social network objects of various different object types, each according to its type. The objects may comprise types such as users, communities, blogs, blog entries, events, forums, forum topics, postings, photographs, and/or images. The product comprises code for carrying out a method that begins with receiving ranking data about social network objects that comprises data about events performed on the social network. For each social network object, a ranking function is applied to ranking data about the social network object based on its type. In addition, the recency of an event on the social network related to the social network object is evaluated, in order to calculate the score for the social network object. A relative ranking for each of the plurality of social network objects based on its score is determined, and the score and relative ranking of each of the social network objects stored.

A mobile device, system, and method are directed towards enabling an integrated display of live views. The integrated live views are generated by employing social networking information, including moods of a person, avatars, status of a member's activities including whether they are in an IM session, or the like. Integrated live views may include a live contact list, a group view, a friend view, an activity oriented view, a list of content, or the like, based on the mobile user's social networking information. By providing the mobile user with integrated live views of their social network, the mobile user may be able communicate with other members within the mobile social networking context, to obtain, and respond to invites from a social network member, provide opportunities for activities to other members, to grow their social network, and to consume content that is displayed relative to their social network.

A method of providing virtual meeting environments for user controlled avatars. Each avatar is associated with user information from at least one social network (Facebook), and the user's profile picture and sex controls the general appearance of the avatars. The avatar's appearance can also be customized according to their user's social network relationships such as friends, friends of friends, or strangers. Various online virtual events, such as virtual parties, meeting rooms and the like may be created, and other social network users invited to participate by sending their avatars to the meeting environment. There the avatars may move about and interact with one another according to real-world rules, such as the rule that only avatars that are portrayed as physically being closely associated to each other in the virtual world may chat or interact, as well as exchange social network user information. Virtual environment search engines are also provided.

A mobile social networking system that provides aspects of an augmented reality experience comprising a wireless infrastructure; at least one central server having a at least one database of users; a mobile scanner that scans for other users through the use of an identification mechanism, queries the server, and downloads the user profiles and displays them on an inconspicuous viewing device. An unobtrusively manipulable input device is used to select and navigate through the profiles. The invention provides a system for obtaining additional social and other information about nearby users in an unobtrusive manner to avoid detection by others.

A method and system for employing barcodes in a social network is disclosed. The method includes extracting location information from a scanned barcode, transmitting the location information to a social network server, and receiving location information of other users in a social network based on the transmitted location information.

A computing device generates job search results for a user. The computing device accesses a social network account of the user to determine employers of contacts in the user's social network. For each job search result, the computing device determines a number of contacts in the user's social network that work for an employer associated with the job search result. The computing device then ranks the job search results based at least in part on the number of contacts in the user's social network that work for employers associated with the job search results. The computing device then provides the ranked search results to the user.

A computer implemented method and system is provided for validating a user associated with one or more social networks. A validation platform associated with the social networks is provided. The validation platform identifies a user for the validation from the social networks. The validation platform retrieves social information of the identified user from the social networks. The social information comprises relationship information of and between the identified user and social contacts of the identified user on the social networks. The validation platform acquires feedback on the identified user from one or more of the social contacts. The validation platform generates one or more validation scores, for example, an evaluation score, a feedback authentication score, a user authentication score, a composite score, etc., for the identified user based on the retrieved social information and/or the acquired feedback. The generated validation scores enable validation of the user associated with the social networks.

The invention provides a method for distinguishing important goals and community groups of a social network. The method comprises steps of combining a static friend network and an active network of a user to establish dynamic social network topology, proposing an InfluenceRank algorithm, comprehensively marking the user influence of the dynamic social network, reducing the weight of a user who interacts with a core user at a low frequency, introducing prior expert knowledge of the user, deleting the core noise point and correcting results. The prior community discovery technology is modified from the accuracy, the covering level and the efficiency and the method has wide application prospects in social computing, public opinion monitoring and corporate marketing.

The invention discloses an indoor positioning method for goal nodes of a mobile social network. The indoor positioning method comprises the following steps of: respectively placing at least three access points AP in different positions, using known coordinate points as anchor nodes, obtaining a relational model between signal strengths and distances of all the anchor points, obtaining the signal strength value of each signal by using a mobile smart terminal, selecting the anchor nodes with the strongest signal strengths as the nodes needing to particle in positioning, respectively putting the three anchor nodes into the relational model between the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) and the distances of the corresponding anchor nodes, and working out the distances from the mobile smart terminal to the corresponding anchor nodes; and working out the position coordinates of the mobile smart terminal by using an angular positioning algorithm. According to the indoor positioning method, the positioning of mobile nodes can be realized in a mobile social network environment, the impact of the environment on positioning is overcome to a certain extend, thereby the positioning accuracy is improved, and the positioning requirement can be basically satisfied in the mobile social network environment.

A mobile social networking platform integrates SMS (text messaging) services with Instant Messaging services so that cross-platform messages can be sent, e.g., text-to-IM and IM-to-text. In response to a text message sent by a user, an integration server prompts a corresponding IM message to be sent to the recipient. In one embodiment the integration server prompts transmission of the IM by logging into the user's IM account or accounts. An instant message corresponding to the text message is then sent to the recipient designated by the user via the user's IM account. After prompting transmission of the instant messages by the associated service, the integration server logs-off from the user's IM account or accounts. In an alternative embodiment the integration server itself generates the IM. In order to send an IM to text message a user logs onto an IM client, selects the integration server from a buddy list, composes the message for a particular group, then sends the message to the integration server. The integration server receives message and, based on the message content and the sender, the integration server identifies at least one of the user's ‘groups’ to which the message is to be sent. The group may comprise all subscribers of a group via IM, text and/or email. If a designated recipient is logged-in to the integration server via mobile phone, a corresponding text message is delivered to that mobile phone.

A social network relating consumers to a commerce system of interest is built. Weights are assigned for individual nodes of the social network based on predetermined criteria. The social network is navigated to identify customer leaders and define customer segments of the commerce system. The social network is also navigated to identify specific communication channels relative to the customer leaders. Effective marketing strategies are defined using the customer leaders and the specific communication channels.

A system and method of the present invention pertains to a mobile social networking application intended to be used by the members of a social network as a tool for trading personal services and offering services between each other. The system allows each user to automatically locate other users located within specified radius and offering services that the user desires to benefit from. Each user creates a profile that includes user's personal information such, as for example, name, gender, address, phone number, hobbies, college information, and more importantly the list of services the user can offer and services that the user is looking to receive or benefit from.

Provided herein are systems and methods that provide community based voting and/or actionable multi-media messaging in a social network. In an embodiment, actionable multi-media messaging is provided, in which the user receives a message comprising an actionable item that the user can act on. The actionable item can be, e.g., to purchase an item, to vote on a ballot, or other actions that can be taken by the user. In another embodiment, community based voting is provided, in which a user receives a message comprising a voting ballot. In this embodiment, the user can vote on the ballot, and publish his/her vote to his/her social network, e.g., to express his/her likes and dislikes. The user can also forward the ballot to other users in his/her social network, and view how other individual users in his/her the social network have voted.

Implementations of various systems and methods for using a social network, a game engine network and a network to provide users of the networks the ability to integrate their everyday personal and business transactions with charity projects and people globally. Users of the methods on the network will use a reality based game strategy and structure through the use of reality, augmented reality and mixed reality technologies to integrate and link their everyday tasks of personal and business transactions to charity network projects and users in an invention that formerly did not exist. Implementations of methods described herein will link people who need help with those who transact or participate on the system in everyday business transactions. Implementations of methods for users will then have a scrapbook of how their everyday common tasks and transactions added up in a record that truly changed the world and influenced people towards social good.

Social networking has become a significant aspect of many peoples lives as they communicate with others who are members of the same social networking application. In many instances members who have joined these social networks to find other individuals with similar interests are unaware that every day they are passing hundreds of people some of whom have these same interests but have not joined the same social network for reasons which may include embarrassment, unfamiliarity with computers, etc. Further full utilization of these social networks is really geared to users in front of their computers rather than their wireless devices which are with them most of the time. According to the invention users manage local profiles on their wireless devices which form ad-hoc networks with any other devices they encounter, exchange profile data to establish a degree of commonality or interests, and may meet during their normal daily lives.

Described herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for processing network packet data in a distributed computing platform, such as a content delivery network, to provide services to mobile network operators and/or their mobile subscribers. According to the teachings hereof, distributed computing resources can be organized into a service platform to provide certain value-add services—such as deep packet inspection, transcoding, lawful intercept, or otherwise—using a service function chaining model. The platform resources are preferably located external to the mobile network, on the public Internet. The platform preferably operates on and processes traffic entering or exiting the mobile network. In some embodiments, the service platform is able to establish an encrypted channel between itself and the mobile client through the mobile network, e.g., using content provider key and certificate information available to the platform (but which may not be available to the mobile network operator).

Login credentials for at least one website, such as a social networking website, are received from a user purporting to act on behalf of an entity, for example, in the context of registering the entity with a system for electronic bill payment. Social data relating to the entity is retrieved from the websites using the login credentials. The social data comprises a plurality of social connections, each reflecting a respective relationship between the entity and a respective third party. A plurality of relevant social connections comprising at least a subset of the plurality of social connections is determined, each social connection of the plurality of relevant social connections reflecting a relationship to a respective third party that is deemed to be reliable. A reliability rating of the entity is then determined based on the plurality of relevant social connections.

A system for brand management using social networks comprising an application server, social network crawler software modules, third party service integration software modules, an analytics server, a report generator, a search engine, a behavioral analysis engine, a recommendation engine, and a database. A user registers and provides data pertaining to a brand. Upon retrieving content from a plurality of social networks pertaining to the brand, the analytics server module analyzes the content to a content value specific to the brand among members of the social networks. The behavioral analysis engine obtains content elements generated by a first member a social network and analyzes the first member's behavior to compute an audience value of the first member. The report generator prepares reports specific to the brand, the reports comprising at least indicia of content value, indicia of audience value, and recommendations for improving member engagement with the brand.

The invention discloses an interactive advertisement injecting method based on social networks. The method includes the steps: a) firstly, creating and publishing advertisements to primarily spread the advertisements; b) secondly, displaying personalized advertisement push for each user according to browsing habits of users on a social network platform, and secondarily spreading the advertisements; c) finally, counting and analyzing interactive data of the advertisement push the users participating in. The interactive advertisement injecting method based on the social networks displays personalized advertisement push for each user according to the browsing habits of the users, mass data can be mined to perform accurate marketing, the sense of participation of the users is increased, so that the users are sufficiently involved in interaction with the advertisements, the users actively spread creative contents, review, vote, actively participate in various forms and perform real-time feedback instead of passively watching, and enterprises can timely and finely adjust marketing strategies and rapidly respond to market change.

The invention relates to a mobile social network implementation system and method based on vehicle communication. The mobile social network implementation system comprises an intelligent mobile terminal, a social network application service platform based on vehicle communication and a mobile cellular network or a WiFi communication network supporting mobile data communication. The social network implementation method comprises the first step that a license plate number is registered, the second step that a mobile phone number and the license plate number are bound, the third step that a user logs into and uses the social network application service platform and the fourth step that the user logs out of the social network application service platform. The mobile social network implementation system and method based on vehicle communication have the advantages that the popularizing rate of the intelligent mobile terminal increases year by year, and the intelligent mobile terminal is carried with the user and can be used as a vehicle-mounted mobile terminal; since mobile internet is achieved through the mobile cellular network and the like, communication between vehicles can be achieved efficiently at low cost, information communication between vehicle divers is realized, and popularization and convenience of the internet of the vehicles are promoted.