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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2009
Andrew Bryan Smith, Morrisville, NC (US);
Mark Douglas Weitzel, Durham, NC (US);
Andrew Bryan Smith, Morrisville, NC (US);
Mark Douglas Weitzel, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for dynamically managing a social network group performed by a group management system having at least one physical processing apparatus includes receiving, with the group management system, data from a number of source providers over a computer network; identifying a basis for creating a new social network group from the data with the group management system; creating the new social network group with the group management system; and automatically inviting a number of members to join the new social network group with the group management system, each of the members being associated with the basis identified in the data for creating the new social network group.