# US 2014/0157151 A1 · Virtual debate and tagging system and method

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- Number: US 2014/0157151 A1
- Document ID: US20140157151A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 13/911,921
- Filed: 2013-06-06
- Published: 2014-06-05
- Earliest claimed: 2012-06-06
- Assignees: Common Sense Exchange, LLC
- Applicants: Common Sense Exchange, LLC
- Inventors: Robert Westmoreland
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140157151A1

## CPC

- G06Q 10/107: Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
- G06Q 10/40: Business processes related to social networking or social networking services
- G06Q 10/44: Identification of trends within social networks, e.g. identification of trending topics
- G06Q 10/46: Determination of level of influence of users within social networking services
- H04L 65/403: Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15)
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)

## Abstract

A social network system provides a debate system that allows users to scroll through comments of a particular topic and challenge other users to a virtual debate. The topics may range from political, social, personal, etc. The social networking application collects tags, such as inputs or ratings, of data content with pre-determined categories.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A social networking application system, comprising:
a memory module for storing user profiles for a plurality of users of the social networking application;
a processing module operable to:
generate a display of a comment on a topic by a first user of the plurality of users;
receive a request for a debate on the comment on the topic;
when a debate is accepted by the first user and at least a second user, provide a graphical user interface to display the debate by the first and second user.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the processing module is further operable to:
determine debate rules for the debate inputs by the first and second user.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The system of claim 1, wherein the processing module is further operable to:
collect votes input to the social networking application system from a plurality of other users on the debate by the first user and second user; and
determine whether the first user or the second user has received a majority of the collected votes.

### Claim 4

A social networking application system, comprising:
a memory module for storing user profiles for a plurality of users of the social networking application;
a processing module operable to:
generate application content for display to the plurality of users;
receive an input to the application content that includes one of a plurality of pre- determined categories;
provide a rating in the predetermined categories of at least one of the application content ,content writer, content commenter based on the collected inputs.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The system of claim 4, wherein the processing module is further operable to:
provide a cumulative history of ratings in the predetermined categories of a user and/or data content by the users.