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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jonathan F. Brunn, Logan, UT (US);

Jeffrey R. Hoy, Gibsonia, PA (US);

Marit L. Imsdahl, Cary, NC (US);

Asima Silva, Holden, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/21 (2018.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 51/22 (2013.01); H04L 51/24 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.02);
Abstract

Increasing social network site interactions or user activities in one aspect may include monitoring social network site activities of a first user on a social network site. Based on the monitoring, a second user of the social network site whose postings the first user follows may be identified. The second user's postings that the first user follows may be classified into a content type. The content type indexed by a pair of identifiers identifying the first user and the second user may be stored in a storage device. A notification may be sent to the second user to post content of the content type to promote social network site interactions or activities of the first user.


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