US 10,769,226 B2Granted

Dynamically selecting a scope of friends for sharing on social media based on sharing criteria and interest

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsSu Liu, Cheng Xu, Jun Su, Debbie Anglin

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Abstract

A graphical user interface allows a user to dynamically select a scope of friends to share media content based on a sharing criteria and interest degree analysis. The sharing criteria may be selected by the user to filter friends for sharing content. The interest degree analysis may be provided from a social media platform that identifies the topic and content of the media which is being shared and determines a degree of interest for each friend on the identified topic. The degree of interest is used to assign each friend to a sharing scope on the graphical user interface to allow the user to select a scope of friends to share the media.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor;
a memory coupled to the at least one processor;
a social media application residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the social media application having a sharing manager with a graphical user interface,
wherein the graphical user interface allows a user to select dynamic sharing of media content to a number of friends from a contact list;
in response to the user selecting dynamic sharing, the graphical user interface displays a plurality of criteria for filtering contacts, and allows the user to select one of the displayed plurality of criteria;
in response to the user selecting one of the displayed plurality of criteria for filtering contacts, prompts the user to provide a data range for the selected criteria;
wherein the graphical user interface communicates with a targeted contact classifier that filters the contact list based on the data range provided by the user for the selected criteria and friend data to produce a list of friends;
wherein the graphical user interface allows the user to select the sharing scope by:
displaying a distribution of friends with a plurality of concentric circles where each concentric circle represents a scope of interest scores and each concentric circle is populated with identifiers, where each identifier corresponds to a friend with a score in the corresponding scope of interest scores, and
allowing the user to select a scope of friends to share media content by selecting one of the concentric circles;
and
wherein the graphical user interface communicates with a sharing server to share the media content to the list of friends.

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A computer-implemented method executed by at least one processor for dynamically sharing on social media comprising:

monitoring sharing action of a user viewing media content on a social media application to determine when a user wants to share media content;
when the user acts to share media content, giving the user an option to dynamically share the media content to a number of friends from a contact list;
in response to the user selecting dynamic sharing, displaying a plurality of criteria for filtering contacts and allowing the user to select one of the displayed plurality of criteria;
in response to the user selecting one of the displayed plurality of criteria for filtering contacts, prompting the user to provide a data range for the selected criteria;
producing a list of friends by filtering the contact list based on the data range provided by the user for the selected criteria and friend data;
identifying a topic of the media content being viewed by the user;
determining an interest degree score for friends in the list of friends for the identified topic;
providing sharing scopes of friends to the user according to the interest degree score to the user;
allowing the user to select a sharing scope of friends with a graphical user interface by:
displaying a distribution of friends with a plurality of concentric circles where each concentric circle represents a scope of interest scores and each concentric circle is populated with identifiers, where each identifier corresponds to a friend with a score in the corresponding scope of interest scores, and
allowing the user to select a scope of friends to share media content by selecting one of the concentric circles;
and
providing a list of selected friends from the sharing scope of friends to a sharing sever to share the media content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/134,493Filed 18 Sep 2018
Published: US 2020/0089811 A119 Mar 2020
Granted: 8 Sep 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 16/9535
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
H04L 51/10
Characterised by the inclusion of specific contents: multimedia information
G06F 3/0482
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 3/04847
For the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a…:…

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