SOCIAL NETWORK DRIVEN INDEXING SYSTEM FOR INSTANTLY CLUSTERING PEOPLE WITH CONCURRENT FOCUS ON SAME TOPIC INTO ON-TOPIC CHAT ROOMS AND/OR FOR GENERATING ON-TOPIC SEARCH RESULTS TAILORED TO USER PREFERENCES REGARDING TOPIC

Patent №

US 8,539,359

Granted

2013-09-17

Filed 2009

Owner

RAPAPORT, JEFFREY A.

Lab

AI components

5

nlp · vision · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12369274

A machine-implemented social networking system includes a hierarchy tree containing topic nodes. New nodes are added as new topics emerge in online public forums. Each topic node can link to an on-topic real time chat room whose occupants are currently discussing the topic of the node. A node-seeking automated process operates in the background and seeks out nodes that currently have topics appearing to be the same as or similar to what topics the user appears to have in mind. Content browsing experience of the user is enhanced by addition of an invitations displaying subsystem that automatically invites him or her to co-compatible chat rooms currently discussing the topic(s) the user appears to have in mind.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Vision1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.99
Machine learning0.38
Evolutionary computation0.07
Speech0.05

Ownership

RAPAPORT, JEFFREY A.

assignment · 225830576

Assignors

RAPAPORT, SEYMOUR, SMITH, KENNETH ALAN, BEATTIE, JAMES, GIMLAN, GIDEON

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

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