Unified Profile System for Multi-Context Networking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users are required to maintain multiple profiles across different networking sites for various purposes, such as personal, social, and professional interactions, which is time-consuming and inefficient, as each site has its own pre-defined profile templates and user account management.
Innovation Solution
A community-defined and managed communication network system that allows users to create a single profile with user-selected attributes, where the community refines and manages these attributes, enabling interactions and communications based on identified relationships and external data analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users maintain multiple profiles across different networking sites for various purposes, then each site can provide targeted community interactions, but users experience time-consuming profile management and maintenance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate profile management systems into a single unified profile that can serve multiple networking purposes. Users create one comprehensive profile that integrates personal, professional, and social attributes, eliminating the need to maintain separate profiles across different sites while still enabling targeted interactions through community-specific views and filters.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified profile system provides multi-functionality by allowing a single profile to serve multiple objectives and community types. The profile contains versatile attributes that can be filtered and displayed differently depending on the community context, enabling the same profile to facilitate personal, professional, and social networking simultaneously.
2Adaptability or versatility
If networking sites use pre-defined profile templates with restricted attributes, then they can cater to specific demographics and objectives, but users cannot define themselves beyond these templates
Solution Approach 1:
The profile system transitions from static, pre-defined templates to a dynamic structure where attributes and descriptors are not fixed in advance. Users can add, remove, and modify profile attributes and descriptors based on their needs, while the system adapts to accommodate these changes. Communities can also dynamically define their own attribute sets, making the system flexible and responsive to diverse user requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the profile into modular attributes and descriptors that can be independently selected, added, or modified. Rather than requiring users to fit into rigid template categories, the profile is divided into discrete elements that can be customized to reflect individual characteristics, enabling both demographic targeting and user self-definition.
3Productivity
If users are prompted to invite non-member users, evaluate users, or initiate communications based on profile analysis, then interaction opportunities increase, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically analyzing user profiles, identifying potential matches and interaction opportunities, and prompting users with relevant actions. The system autonomously processes profile data, compares attributes and descriptors, and generates interaction suggestions without requiring complex manual configuration or management by users, thereby increasing productivity while keeping the user interface simple.
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AI summary
A community-defined and managed communication network is provided. The community-defined and managed network includes creating a profile for a user of the network that includes a user-selected attribute and identifying a relationship between the attribute in the profile and data external to the profile. The identification includes analyzing user community-generated descriptors of the attribute and searching the external data for common descriptors. The community-defined and managed network further includes initiating an activity responsive to the analysis, which includes one or more of: prompting the user to invite a second user who is not a registered member of the communication network to join the communication network; prompting a third user to evaluate the user with respect to the attribute; and prompting the user to initiate a communication with a fourth user who is a registered member of the communication network.