US 8,943,054 B2Granted

Social media content management system and method

AssigneeSocial Resolve, LLC

InventorRobert M. Caruso

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Abstract

A social media content management system coupled to a social media network includes database files and execution instructions to assemble, manage and transmit social media content. The database files store a feed content file, a social content management file, and management tables including a schedule file and an export content file. Execution instructions include a feed channel content system for receiving and storing feed content items in the feed content file. A selection subsystem is used for selecting and storing export content as social media posts in the social content management file. A scheduling subsystem enables a user to create and store schedules, to select a schedule and to merge the selected schedule with the stored content in the management file to form the export content file. An export system transmits the stored content as social media content posts to the social media network according to the selected schedule.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A social media content management system, comprising:

a computer having a memory and a communications interface for coupling to a social media network;
a database for storing files in the memory;
and
execution instructions for assembling, managing, transforming and transmitting social media content;
the database including files for storing:
a feed content file;
a social content management file;
and
management tables including a schedule file and an export content file;
the execution instructions including:
a feed channel content system including:
a subsystem for receiving a plurality of feed content items via the network and automatically storing the plurality of feed content items in the feed content file;
and
a feed content parsing subsystem for automatically parsing each item of feed content into parsed feed content including at least two parts:
a text headline and a Web link associated with each item for the feed content, for storage in the feed content file;
a management system including:
a selection subsystem for selecting parsed feed content items to be export content and automatically storing the export content as a plurality of social media posts in the social content management file;
and
a scheduling subsystem for a user to create and store in the schedule file one or more schedules separate from the plurality of social media posts, each comprising a plurality of posting times, to select a schedule and, to merge the selected schedule with the stored content in the management file to form automatically an instance of the export content file containing the plurality of social media posts, each associated with one of the posting times in the selected schedule;
and
an export system for transmitting the content items stored in the instance of the export content file as social media content posts to a social media network for posting according to the selected schedule
in which the database further includes a hashtag table and the execution instructions include a hashtag creation subsystem enabling the user to select keyword/phrases of the content and to assign hashtags to the selected keyword/phrases in the hashtag table and a hashtag replace subsystem operable automatically to search the stored content items for the keyword/phrases and replace them with the corresponding hashtags from the hashtag table.

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A social media content management process operable on a computer having a memory and a communications interface for coupling to a social media network to transform content selected from a received data feed and to republish the transformed content as social media content posts to the social media network, the process comprising:

receiving a content feed data stream including candidate feed content items for posting as social media content, the feed content items each including a URL link to associated content;
and
automatically parsing an item of the candidate feed content items into a candidate social media post comprising at least two parts:
a text headline and the associated URL link for the feed content item;
automatically storing each candidate social media post in a feed content file;
selecting candidate social media posts from the feed content file and automatically storing the selected social media posts in a social content management file;
editing the text or URL of selected social media posts in the social content management file;
providing a hashtag table, assigning hashtags to selected keyword/phrases of the content in the hashtag table and searching the stored content items for the keyword/phrases and replacing them with the corresponding hashtags from the hashtag table:
providing a schedule separate from the plurality of social media posts, containing a plurality of times for posting the social media content to a social media network;
merging the schedule with the stored content in the social content management file to form an export content file;
and
automatically transmitting the selected social media posts stored in the export content file as social media content posts to a social media network according to the schedule.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/360,541Filed 27 Jan 2012 · us provisional application
Priority: 31 Jan 2011
Published: US 2012/0197995 A12 Aug 2012
Granted: 27 Jan 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 16/113
File system administration, e.g. details of archiving or snapshots: details of archiving
G06F 16/11
File systems; File servers: file system administration, e.g. details of archiving or snapshots
G06F 16/137
File access structures, e.g. distributed indices: hash-based
G06F 16/958
Retrieval from the web: organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking