Core Community Intermediary for Social Network Interoperability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional social-networking systems restrict user members from interacting with others across different social-networking communities, limiting content sharing and interoperability, which hampers user engagement and revenue generation for publisher members.
Innovation Solution
The system enables interoperability among social-networking communities by providing a method for sharing revenues, integrating a core social-networking community with multiple social-networking communities, and allowing the sharing of multimedia content across these communities through an API and revenue-sharing models.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If user members are restricted to interacting only within their own social-networking community, then each community can maintain its own identity and structure, but user engagement and interoperability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a core social-networking community as an intermediary layer between multiple independent social-networking communities. This core community provides standardized interfaces and protocols that enable interoperability between different communities without requiring them to merge or share their complete infrastructure, thus resolving the contradiction between interoperability and system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The core social-networking community serves multiple functions: it acts as a communication bridge between different communities, provides unified authentication and authorization, enables content sharing across communities, and facilitates user profile integration. This multi-functionality achieves interoperability without requiring separate solutions for each function, thereby reducing overall system complexity
2Productivity
If user members must join another community to share content with users from that community, then content sharing is enabled, but the process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication and authorization actions through the core social-networking community before content sharing occurs. Users are pre-identified and relationships are pre-established in the core community, allowing content sharing to proceed directly without requiring users to join target communities or perform additional registration steps, thus eliminating time loss
Solution Approach 2:
The core social-networking community acts as an intermediary that handles the complex tasks of authentication, authorization, and content routing automatically. When a user wants to share content with users from another community, the core community mediates this process by verifying identities, checking permissions, and routing content through standardized protocols, thereby eliminating the need for manual joining and reducing time requirements
3Ease of manufacture
If publisher members outsource development and maintenance to commercial ISPs, then operational costs are reduced, but revenue control and customization are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the social-networking infrastructure into independent components: individual social-networking communities can be developed and maintained separately, while the core community provides shared services. Publisher members can outsource operational maintenance to reduce costs while retaining control over revenue models through the modular architecture, which allows customization of revenue-sharing arrangements without requiring complete system redesign
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows flexible parameter changes in revenue models and operational parameters through configuration options in the core community. Publisher members can adjust revenue-sharing ratios, access levels, and maintenance parameters without changing the fundamental architecture, enabling both cost reduction through outsourcing and retained control over revenue models through configurable parameters
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AI summary
A system and method are provided for creating a social-networking community and enabling the social-networking community to interoperate with other social-networking communities within a network of social-networking communities. The method includes creating a core profile that links a user member's identify to plurality of social-networking communities of the network. The system enables user identity information, content, and friend information to be shared across social-networking communities of the network. The system also enables community content to be shared and tracked across social-networking communities of the network.