APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING GROUPS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK

Patent №

US 8,307,032

Granted

2012-11-06

Filed 2010

Owner

PEER NEWS LLC

+1 more

Lab

AI components

4

kr · planning · evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12751817

A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive from a user a request related to an area of interest. A group is generated for the user based on the request. Generating the group includes identifying domain users knowledgeable in the area of interest and combining the user and the domain user to form the group. The group is delivered to the user. In particular, user information posted by the group is displayed to the user.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.83
Evolutionary computation0.62
Machine learning0.21
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

PEER NEWS LLC

assignment · 241710390

FIRST LOOK, LLC

assignment · 410390867

Assignors

OMIDYAR, PIERRE, CHING, RANDY

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

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