Social Network Timeline for Future Event Matchmaking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current social networking methods lack effective tools for displaying future events in a time-related manner, failing to provide adequate importance or relevance to users' interests, and do not facilitate matchmaking between users interested in the same events.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method for posting messages about future events on social networks, where user preferences and interests are maintained, and messages are filtered and sorted chronologically, allowing users to post events with time-tags and keywords, targeting interested users and automatically entering events into their timelines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a classic calendar showing days, weeks, or months is used to display events, then events are visible in a time-related fashion, but no additional value is added regarding importance or relation to other activities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a traditional two-dimensional calendar grid to a one-dimensional vertical timeline representation. This dimensional change allows events to be displayed chronologically while incorporating additional information dimensions (importance indicators, relevance metrics, contextual relationships) that enhance the display without requiring a complex multi-dimensional grid structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The timeline is segmented into distinct event entries, each capable of containing multiple attributes (time, importance, relevance, related activities). This segmentation allows each event to be independently evaluated and displayed with its specific characteristics, preserving important information while maintaining a simple overall structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If social networking provides organizational tools for interaction, then users can join and share interests, but effective tools for displaying future events in time-related manner are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The timeline system serves multiple functions within the social networking context: it displays future events chronologically, indicates event importance and relevance to user interests, facilitates matchmaking between users interested in the same events, and integrates with existing social networking features. This multi-functionality addresses the versatility requirement while maintaining ease of use through a unified interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically determines event importance and relevance based on user profiles and interests without requiring manual user configuration. Users simply post events with time information, and the system autonomously calculates relevance metrics and performs matchmaking, reducing operational complexity while enhancing functionality.
3Loss of information
If messages about future events are posted to social networks, then users can share events, but matchmaking between users interested in the same events is not facilitated
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by analyzing user interests and event characteristics to generate relevance scores. This feedback loop enables the system to identify and connect users with similar interests in future events, facilitating automatic matchmaking. The relevance information is continuously refined based on user interactions and preferences, improving interaction efficiency while preserving matching information.
4Loss of information
If traditional social networking methods are used, then users can communicate via forums, but adequate tools for visualizing future events relevant to user interests are not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameters of event information by assigning quantitative values to qualitative attributes such as importance and relevance. Events are tagged with metadata parameters that reflect their significance and alignment with user interests. This parameterization enables efficient filtering, sorting, and matching without requiring complex qualitative analysis, thus preserving relevant information while managing processing complexity.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates in general to social networks run in a computer environment and in particular to methods and systems for posting messages about future events to users of a social network who are registered users of the social network, preferably in accordance with selectable, pre-selectable or adjustable settings for individual users. The method and system allows a user to post a message about a future plan or event that is taking place at a specified time rather than the time that the message is sent. The approach according to the present disclosure is directed to a unique way of social networking via an ordered list of events, such as a timeline or calendar, that shows when future plans will take place, and to a ‘matchmaking’ service between people organizing or taking part in such an event and other users who may also be interested in that event.