US 9,436,757 B1Granted

Generating a graph for a user profile

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorDaniel Raynaud

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Abstract

According to various aspects of the subject technology, a user's personality profile is based on a user's social actions, including uploading a photo in association with a post (e.g. check-in, comment, reshare, etc.). The post's content (e.g. photo) is attributed to one or more personality dimensions in the user's personality profile. The various personality dimensions are then displayed in a compass graph, which shows user achievement on a multi-dimensional scale. Each discreet, explicit submission alters, to some degree, one or more dimensions. The compass graph is publicly viewable, and users can see the profile change over time, as each user action updates the compass graph. The dimensions can also be altered by the number of posts, time, locations of posts, subject matter (e.g. types of posts or categories of posts), and external interaction such as social interactions (e.g. feedback on posts, or positive comments).

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

providing a user profile, the user profile having a plurality of dimensions respectively corresponding to a plurality of categories;
receiving user activity data corresponding to at least one user action;
associating the user activity data to at least one of the plurality of categories;
updating the plurality of dimensions within the user profile based on the association of the user activity data to the at least one of the plurality of categories;
and
generating, by a processing unit, a graph based on the updated user profile;
wherein the graph includes:
a point;
a plurality of axes radiating outward from the point, the plurality of axes respectively corresponding to the plurality of dimensions;
a plurality of dimension points, each of the plurality of dimension points plotted along each of the plurality of axes respectively, wherein a distance between each of the dimension points and the point corresponds to a measure of user activity in each of the plurality of categories respectively;
and
a contained area designated based on the plurality of dimension points, wherein the contained area corresponds to a total user activity level.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

providing a user profile having a plurality of dimensions, the plurality of dimensions respectively corresponding to a plurality of categories;
receiving user activity data corresponding to at least one user action;
associating the user activity data to at least one of the plurality of categories;
updating the plurality of dimensions based on the association of the user activity data to the at least one of the plurality of categories;
and
generating a graph based on the user profile;
wherein the graph includes:
a point;
a plurality of axes radiating outward from the point, the plurality of axes respectively corresponding to the plurality of dimensions;
a plurality of dimension points, each of the plurality of dimension points plotted along each of the plurality of axes respectively, wherein a distance between each of the dimension points and the point corresponds to a measure of user activity in each of the plurality of categories respectively;
and
a contained area designated based on the plurality of dimension points, wherein the contained area corresponds to a total user activity level.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.