APPARATUS FOR INCREASING SOCIAL INTERACTION OVER AN ELECTRONIC NETWORK

Patent №

US 8,166,407

Granted

2012-04-24

Filed 2007

Owner

SOCIAL CONCEPTS, INC.

Lab

AI components

2

kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11627336

In one embodiment, a system includes a server that hosts webpages facilitating user interaction between multiple endpoints. The system monitors for a user input requesting initiation of a happy hour, and when the input is detected, modifies the webpages to alert users of the happy hour. The users are notified of which user initiated the happy hour, and are also notified that interaction incentives accumulate at an increased rate during the happy hour. The system also tracks user scorings that accumulate based on the user interaction, and enables certain website features based on these user scorings. The system also tracks ratings for user-uploaded objects and identifies top rated objects for displaying on webpages viewable by other users.

Knowledge representationPlanningG06Q 10/40G06F 15/17306G06Q 30/02G06Q 30/0207G06Q 30/0208G06Q 30/0209G06Q 30/0211G06Q 30/0212+5 more

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.99
Planning0.99
Machine learning0.33
AI hardware0.31
Natural language0.28
Vision0.03
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

SOCIAL CONCEPTS, INC.

assignment · 188070585

Assignors

LEE, JOSEPH WILLIAM, GRENDLER, PETER AUGUST, HEDLUND, MICHAEL R.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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