37 results about "Online discussion" patented technology

A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards seeding a user's contacts for their online social network. The invention is arranged to automatically recommend to the user a set of seed contacts that the user may employ to invite to join their social network. The set of seed contacts may be harvested from the user's existing portal activities, as well as other sources. In one embodiment, the invention analyzes portal activity, such as email exchanges with the user, and the like, to determine a frequency of contact with the user. Other sources may include but not be limited to emails, names within an address book of the user, names within an address book of another person, a buddy list, an instant messaging list, an activity, a mailing list, an online discussion group, a membership in a category, chat group, and the like.

Collaborative electronic mail messages are fully integrated into traditional electronic mail on the client end. The collaborative electronic mail allows users to have online discussions without the clutter of numerous related individual electronic mails in the inbox, while at the same time reducing any deviation from the electronic mail user interface as seen by the end users.

An on-line forum for auctioning non-performing assets includes offering for auction sale of non-performing assets in a lot of as few as a single asset or a plurality of assets following completion of a third-level registration. Access to a limited amount of information on the on-line forum is permitted without registration. Additional information is accessed following completion of a first level registration. Direct communication is facilitated between one or more registered potential bidders and a registered seller in an on-line discussion forum. Assets offered in the on-line forum auction are bidded upon following completion of second level registration by each potential bidder. Collection assistance may be provided to the on-line forum bidders.

Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and system for dynamically sharing multimedia content information. In particular, embodiments of the present invention provide a “live social context” in which users can share multimedia content information, such as a website, a stream, a music file, and the like. Upon finding multimedia content that a user would like to share with others, the user may select a “share” function, for example, by selecting a button on their browser that initiates a dialog window and permits the user to invite other users into a discussion. The invitations may then be sent to these users across different services. In addition, the invitation may include content, such as a text comment or file that the user has added. The recipient users receive a live notification of the invitation and may then participate in an online discussion with the user. Furthermore, other users may be provided a live notification that activity has been initiated or in-progress about the multimedia content. These users may then request to join in the online discussion.

A method embodied as a web application that enables the automated construction of project teams from profiles contained in data sources accessible through the World Wide Web. The data sources may include social networks, blogs, web pages, and postings on online discussion forums. The locations of these data sources are supplied by a system administrator (during configuration and maintenance) and by registered users of the web application. The web application allows the system administrator to create a set of templates describing the kinds of roles and skills required by the users of the web application. The web application identifies potential team members referenced in the information sources and constructs a semantic network describing the skill sets and team suitability of those potential team members. The web application allows a registered user to enter the roles and capabilities required for a project team they wish to create. Once the user has entered a description of their desired project team, the application automatically constructs candidate teams by analyzing the semantic network to identify appropriate candidate teams given constraints on roles and skills. Four methods for identifying teams from the semantic network are provided. The system then provides the user with a set of recommended team members. In an iterative process, the user adjusts constraints on the team member capabilities until a satisfactory team is identified. The web application allows the user to negotiate compensation with the selected team, and provides a web-based collaboration page that the user and team may use for communication and coordination.

The techniques of the present invention provide mechanisms for enabling a new type of interactive online discussion where any number of people can participate in a discussion of a topic and having the impression of following a coherent discussion. By following a novel process described in the present invention, eventually they would collectively generate a set of statements that the majority of the participants have agreed to. Moreover, a participation performance of the participants is being kept so as to potentially regroup those best performers in a future meeting with a similar topic.

Methods and arrangements for enhancing content in discussion forums. Access to an online discussion is provided. A posting by an author participating in the discussion is accepted, and a recommendation is automatically produced for the author for amending the posting to increase the likelihood of response to the posting by other individuals participating in the discussion.

An approach is provided for mining threaded online discussions. In the approach, performed by an information handling system, a natural language processing (NLP) analysis is performed on threaded discussions pertaining to a given topic. The analysis is performed across multiple web sites with each of the web sites including one or more threaded discussions. The analysis results in harvested discussions pertaining to the topic. The harvested discussions are correlated and a question is identified from the harvested discussions. A set of candidate answers is also identified from the harvested discussions, with one of the candidate answers being selected as the most likely answer to the identified question.

A method includes receiving, at a first network address and from a first client device of a plurality of client devices, an identifier of a second network address. In response to receiving the identifier from the first client device, first content corresponding to the second network address is provided to the first client device. Second content from the first client device is received at the first network address. The identifier is received at the first network address and from a second client device of the plurality of client devices. In response to receiving the identifier from the second client device, the second content is provided to the second client device.

This patent discloses a system to display an online advertisement to a user viewing user-generated comments in an online discussion forum. The system may include an ad server having online advertisements in an ad database. The ad server may include an analyzer to compare compiled metadata to at least two of the online advertisements. The compiled metadata may include metadata from the user-generated comment. The comparison may result in the selection of one advertisement for display with the user-generated comment. The selected advertisement may be called a paired advertisement and the ad server further may serve the paired advertisement to the user-generated comment.

A method of managing chat history on online discussions includes generating a transcript of an electronic discussion between at least two participants and selectively saving the transcript on a computer terminal of one of the at least two participants. The one of the at least two participants saving the transcript establishes a local computer terminal and the other of the at least two participants establishes a remote computer terminal. The one of the at least two participants saving the transcript is prompted to provide a tag. The tag is either a public tag or a private tag. The public tag is associated with the local computer terminal and the remote computer terminal, and the private tag is associated with only the local computer terminal. Once chosen, the tag is incorporated into the transcript.

A computerized game and physical game piece provide the basis for establishing communication among members of an online community. An individual purchases or trades for a game piece which has a serial number thereon. The game piece also has a design that is representative of a message that individuals desire to convey. The game pieces are carried in a holder that allows for convenient trading of game pieces in the real world. Upon receiving a game piece, the individual registers the game piece on a website and is given access to a game piece profile and member profiles on the systems. Communications between members of the online community are based upon common ownership of the game piece. The online community includes messaging among members and online discussions regarding the game pieces and the messages thereon. The website tracks the series of possessors of game pieces and their real world locations.

A method, apparatus, and system are directed towards seeding a user's contacts for their online social network. The invention is arranged to automatically recommend to the user a set of seed contacts that the user may employ to invite to join their social network. The set of seed contacts may be harvested from the user's existing portal activities, as well as other sources. In one embodiment, the invention analyzes portal activity, such as email exchanges with the user, and the like, to determine a frequency of contact with the user. Other sources may include but not be limited to emails, names within an address book of the user, names within an address book of another person, a buddy list, an instant messaging list, an activity, a mailing list, an online discussion group, a membership in a category, chat group, and the like.

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to discussion forum management and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant conversations in a thread within a discussion forum. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for instant conversations in a thread within a discussion forum can be provided. The method can include providing a discussion forum and initiating a thread in the discussion forum and measuring a temporal proximity of postings between two or more users in the thread. In response to determining a close temporal proximity, an instant messaging session can be launched between the two or more users and entries in the instant messaging session can be inserted as responses to the thread in the discussion form.

A system for managing chat histories of online discussions includes a computer terminal including software. The software, when executed, causes the system to generate a transcript of an electronic discussion between at least two participants, and selectively save the transcript on the computer terminal of one of the participants. The computer terminal of the participant upon which the transcript is saved establishes a local computer terminal and the computer terminal of the other participant establishes a remote computer terminal. The system then prompts the participant saving the transcript to provide a tag. The tag is designated as either a public tag or a private tag. The public tag is associated with the local computer terminal and the remote computer terminal while the private tag is associated with only the local computer terminal. The software, when executed, then causes the system to incorporate the tag into the transcript.

This invention is a content review system having a computer readable medium which can contain member information embodied in the computer readable medium representing individuals that wish to participate in online discussions where each member has an electronic address. Computer readable instructions provide for receiving initial discussion content generated by an originating member, generating a new discussion notification, transmitting the new discussion notification to the members, receiving a comment to the initial discussion content from a commenting member, transmitting the comment to each member, receiving review information from a reviewing member wherein the review is associated with the comment and wherein the review information include feedback information selected from the group of concur, concur and comment, neutral comment, dissent and dissent and comment, and transmitting the review information to at least one member.

Extracting and analyzing online discussions to identify prospects of a subject is provided. The method has steps including initializing queries related to the subject and a set of data sources utilizing subject information and one or more data source names, extracting the discussions from the set of data sources by employing the queries, extracting significant discussions from the extracted discussions by applying discussions quality methods, identifying websites corresponding to the significant discussions; extracting significant websites by applying websites quality methods to the identified websites, determining a website influence of each of the significant websites by determining their corresponding attributes, identifying a discussion influence of each of the significant discussions based on the website influence of each of the corresponding significant websites, and weighting the significant discussions and the significant websites utilizing the discussion influence and the website influence of each of the significant discussions and the significant websites, respectively.

Disclosed is a discussion solution providing system. The discussion solution providing system opens a discussion room with a particular topic, and transmits image information of each discussion participant participating in the opened discussion room to terminals of each discussion participant, so that the transmitted image information may be displayed on discussion UIs corresponding to each discussion participant. The discussion solution providing system progresses discussion in a tournament type, thereby inspiring the participants to have competitive spirits and increasing the educational effect.

The invention relates to the technical field of computer network and discloses a method for detecting and tracking topics of an online forum. The method comprises the following steps: adopting an HTML parsing module to pretreat posts in the forum and reconstruct clews; utilizing the information measurement module of the posts and clews to check the information degree of a new post and associated clews and update the eigenvector of the clews; analyzing the content text of the clews in a clew database; analyzing the user behavior of the clews in the clew database; and integrating the analytic results of the content text and the user behavior of the clews to judge the topic category of the clews. Given the complexity of the online forum, the invention greatly solves the detecting and tracking problems of the online forum by the method for integrating the content and the user behavior and has good application prospects.

The invention provides an automatic grouping system for online discussion, and the system comprises a data center which is used for storing data collected in an online discussion process, and the datacomprises user basic information, interaction information, discussion text, multimedia information, conference information, scene and grouping strategy information, and additional attribute configuration information; a service platform is used for defining and collecting user behaviors and interaction data, and calculating and modeling features in the online discussion process of the users, so asto realize automatic grouping; and a user client is used for defining functions accessed by different types of users and presenting adaptive interfaces and functions for the users. The method is suitable for adaptively grouping the objects participating in discussion in different scenes (education and business discussion) according to the difference of discussion targets and the difference of participants, and the discussion efficiency is improved.

Described is system and method for gauging public interest in a topic using network analysis of online discussions. A message from an online discussion related to a specific topic is received as input. The message is analyzed for information related to the message, and a graph comprised of nodes is generated where each node represents information related to the message, such as user name, location, hyperlinks, and annotations. The graph is updated over time as additional messages from the online discussion are received. Additional nodes are generated and linked with at least one of the existing nodes in the graph to form at least one connected component. A normalized diameter of the largest connected component in the graph is determined, and a level of collective focus in the online discussion related to the topic based on the normalized diameter is output to a user.

The techniques of the present invention provide mechanisms for enabling a new type of interactive online discussion where any number of people can participate in a discussion of a topic and having the impression of following a coherent discussion. By following a novel process described in the present invention, eventually they would collectively generate a set of statements that the majority of the participants have agreed to. Moreover, a participation performance of the participants is being kept so as to potentially regroup those best performers in a future meeting with a similar topic.

The invention discloses an intelligent interaction distance education system based on big data. The system comprises a network teaching big data platform, a teacher teaching system, a student learningsystem, a teaching management system and a video discussion system. The teacher teaching system comprises a teaching module and an online discussion module; the student learning system comprises an information receiving module, a course learning module and an online discussion module; the teaching management system comprises an announcement information module, an attendance management module anda course management module; the video discussion system comprises a video conference server, the video conference server is connected with online discussion modules of the teacher teaching system andthe student learning system, and the video conference server is further connected with a video matrix and a video recording server; based on the rich teaching resource database of the big data platform, management, teaching and learning three-party educational activities are remotely and efficiently carried out, the communication and interaction efficiency is improved through the video discussionsystem, the learning interest and the learning efficiency are improved, and remote network education is more real.

Methods and arrangements for enhancing content in discussion forums. Access to an online discussion is provided. A posting by an author participating in the discussion is accepted, and a recommendation is automatically produced for the author for amending the posting to increase the likelihood of response to the posting by other individuals participating in the discussion.

A user-generated content (UGC) mobile distribution system supports creation of a personalized and virtual UGC broadcast channel that can be selectively clipped and cached by filtering based inter alia on content descriptors of popularity and freshness. A broadcast service provider can further provide meta data categorization for filtering that is more objective than what is supplied by a posting user of UGC content items. A broadcast program guide enables mobile devices to schedule clip downloads. Popularity, which can be sorted by applicable demographic, represents a criterion (e.g., rating scores, number of views, quantity of online discussion, etc.) whether associated content item should be downloaded for subsequent accessibility by a user, enhancing filtering based upon user profile and genre. Freshness represents how recent the associated content was made available for download by the broadcast service provider. Popularity can also be used as weighting to sort a display of cached content items.

Described is system and method for discovering important elements that drive an online discussion. The system receives, as input, a message from an online discussion related to a topic. The message is analyzed for information related to the message. A graph comprising a plurality of nodes is generated, where each of the plurality of nodes represents an entity. The graph is updated over time as additional messages from the online discussion are received, such that additional nodes are generated and linked with at least one of the plurality of nodes by paths. A closeness value for each node is determined based on the path lengths. The entities are ranked based on the closeness values, thereby providing a ranking of the entities by level of importance in the online discussion to a user.

A computer-implemented technique includes, in a first aspect, a computer-implemented method for crowd sourced realization of a business opportunity. The method includes: facilitating an online discussion of the business opportunity between a registered service requestor and a first registered service provider; receiving a presentation of the business opportunity; evaluating the received business opportunity for realization relative to a plurality of registered service providers; assigning the evaluated business opportunity to at least one of the registered service providers pursuant to the outcome of the evaluation; imposing a pricing system on the presentation, evaluation, and assignment of the business opportunity; wherein the receiving, evaluating, and assigning are performed by a processor. In a second aspect, a computing apparatus is programmed to perform the method. In a third aspect, a non-transitory storage medium is encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computing apparatus, perform the method.