Groupon, Inc.

Bytedance Inc.

Brian Totty

Christopher Colby

Mike Y Chen

Gary Lerhaupt

David Gourley

Ed Haslam

Paul Andre Gauthier

Paul Gauthier

Social media networking applications, web sites, and services creates implicit relationships between users based on their interest or participation in real-world and optionally virtual or online activities in addition to explicitly defined peer relationships. User profiles, activity entities, and expressions may be associated with metadata to assist in searching and navigation. Metadata is implicitly associated with user profiles, activity entities, expressions, or other data entities based on user behavior using metadata collector. A metadata collector is a poll, survey, list, questionnaire, census, test, game, or other type of presentation adapted to solicit user interaction. A metadata collector is associated with metadata elements. When users interact with a metadata collector, their user profiles and the data entities included in their interactions become associated with the metadata elements of the metadata collector. These metadata element associations may then be used for any purpose.

Implicitly associating metadata using user behavior

Growing community of inventors

Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Brian Totty