Populating a new community for a social network
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRichard Gorzela, Asima Silva
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Abstract
Populating a new community for a social network includes receiving metadata associated with a new community for a social network, determining, based on the metadata, at least one similar community related to the new community, utilizing the at least one similar community as a template to populate the new community with content, tags, and membership, and maintaining the at least one similar community and the new community by creating, reading, updating, and deleting (CRUD) the content, the tags, and the membership.
Claims20
A method for populating a new community for a social network, the method comprising:
- receiving metadata that defines a new community for a social network, the metadata comprising at least one of:
- tags for the new community, membership of the new community and content for the new community;
- determining, based on the metadata, at least one similar community related to the new community;
- utilizing the at least one similar community as a template to populate the new community with content, tags, and membership, including presenting, to a user, content and membership of the at least one similar community and receiving from the user a selection of members and content of the at least one similar community to be included in the new community;
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- initiating the new community with content, tags and membership based on the at least one similar community.
A system for populating a new community for a social network, the system comprising:
- a computer having a user interface, the user interface for receiving metadata that defines a new community for a social network, the metadata comprising at least one of:
- tags for the new community, membership of the new community and content for the new community;
- a network interface of the computer for accessing the social network, the computer to use the network interface for determining at least one similar community already in the social network that is related to the new community based on the metadata;
- a processor of the computer programmed for utilizing the at least one similar community as a template to populate the new community with content, tags, and membership, including presenting, to a user, content and membership of the at least one similar community and receiving from the user a selection of members and content of the at least one similar community to be included in the new community;
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- the processor of the computer further programmed for initiating the new community on the social network with content, tags and membership based on the at least one similar community.
A method for populating a new community for a social network using:
- a processor;
- a memory storing programming for the processor;
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- a network interface for the processor to exchange data with a computer network;
- the method comprising:
- receiving metadata through a user interface defining the new community, the metadata comprising any of tags for the new community, membership of the new community and content for the new community;
- accessing a database of existing communities, each existing community already comprising membership and content, to identify, using and based on the metadata associated with the new community, at least one matching community from among the existing communities that is related to the new community based on the metadata associated with the new community;
- utilizing the at least one matching community as a template to populate the new community with any of content, tags, and membership based on the at least one matching community so that a database supporting the new community is initiated with data from the matching community;
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- maintaining the new community.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.