Automated personalized identifier switching in view of closeness

A computer program product for automatically switching an identifier of a user for display as the identifier of the user on a computing device of a contact, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer device to cause the computer device to:

• associate a plurality of different types of identifiers of the user in a database, wherein each of the identifiers has a different closeness factor of the user;
• store in the database the plurality of different types of identifiers of the user, wherein the plurality of different types of identifiers of the user include photos;
• receive the photos from an external photo library by an image recognition and tagging device;
• classify the photos according to topics using the image recognition and tagging device;
• automatically select an identifier of the user without need for intervention by the user for display as the identifier of the user on the computing device of the contact in communication with the user over the network comprising:
• automatically determine a closeness factor of the contact to the user, the determined closeness factor of the contact having the same closeness factor with an identifier stored in the database comprised of the plurality of different types of identifiers of the user, the closeness factor indicative of a level of personal closeness of a relationship between the user and the contact, the level including a strong level of closeness, a medium strong level of closeness, a medium level of closeness, and a weak level of closeness;
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• automatically match the determined closeness factor of the contact with the identifier having the same closeness factor stored in a database comprised of the plurality of different types of identifiers of the user;
• automatically transmit the matched identifier from the database to the computing device of the contact in communication over the network to display as the identifier of the user on the computing device, wherein the contact is one of a plurality of contacts forming a group which the user belongs to;
• automatically switch the identifier of the user in communication over the network with the group comprising:
• automatically determine a group closeness factor which is based on a combination of closeness factors of each contact making up the group and other factors including a topic of the group, a group name, and a chat content of the group;
• automatically check the closeness factors of each contact of the group using a user's contact list and the closeness factors of each contact of the group;
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• automatically match the determined group closeness factor of the group with a different identifier having the same closeness factor stored in the database;
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• automatically transmit the different identifier from the database to each computing device of each contact of the group in communication over the network for display as the different identifier of the user on the computing device of each contact of the chat group,
• wherein at least two of the plurality of identifiers in the database have different closeness factors from one another.

A system for automatically switching an identifier of a user for display as the identifier of the user on a computing device of a contact, comprising:

• a processor, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium located in a computer;
• program instructions associating a plurality of identifiers of the user in a database, wherein each of the identifiers has a different closeness factor of the user;
• program instructions to store the plurality of identifiers of the user in the database, wherein each of the identifiers has the different closeness factor of the user than other identifiers of a same type stored in the database, wherein the plurality of identifiers include photos;
• program instructions to receive the photos from an external photo library by an image recognition and tagging device;
• program instructions to classify the photos according to topics using the image recognition and tagging device;
• program instructions to receive by the user computer device a contact list of each member of a chat group joined by the user of the computer device;
• program instructions to automatically select an identifier of the user without need for intervention by the user for display as the identifier of the user on a computing device of each of the members of the chat group in communication over a network comprising:
• program instructions to automatically determine a group closeness factor of the chat group to the user, the closeness factor determined by a combination of the closeness factor for each member of the chat group and other factors including a topic of the chat group, a chat group name, and a chat content of the chat group, the closeness factor indicative of a level of personal closeness of a relationship between the user and a member of the chat group, the level including a strong level of closeness, a medium strong level of closeness, a medium level of closeness, and a weak level of closeness;
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• program instructions to automatically match the determined group closeness factor of the chat group with the identifier having the same closeness factor stored in the database;
• program instruction to store the matched identifier for the chat group in the database;
• program instructions to automatically transmit the matched identifier from the database to the computing device of each of the members of the chat group in communication over the network for display as the identifier of the user on the computing device of each of the members of the chat group;
• program instructions to automatically switch the identifier of the user in communication over the network with the chat group comprising:
• program instructions to receive by the user computer device an indication of a change of membership in the contact list of the chat group;
• program instructions to dynamically adjust the group closeness factors based on the change of membership in the contact list of the chat group by automatically redetermining the group closeness factor of the chat group to the user, the closeness factor determined by the combination of the closeness factor for each member of the chat group and other factors including the topic of the chat group, the chat group name, and the chat content of the chat group;
• program instructions to automatically match the redetermined group closeness factor of the chat group with another identifier having the same closeness factor stored in the database;
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• program instruction to automatically store the another identifier for the chat group in the database;
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• program instructions to automatically transmit the another identifier from the database to the computing device of each of the members of the chat group in communication over a network for display as a replacement identifier of the user on the computing device of each of the members of the chat group.