Bridging relationships across enterprise and personal social networks
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMustansir Banatwala, David A. Brooks, Maureen G. Leland
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Abstract
A user interface (UI) may be provided that allows a user to connect a first identity in a first social community to another identity in another social community by allowing the user to specify the first identity and another identity. Responsive to a user utilizing the UI, the user may be presented with an option to identify connections in the first social community according to a criteria with members associated with another identity in said another social community. A list of identified connections may be presented.
Claims16
A computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of bridging relationships across social networks, the method comprising:
- providing a user interface (UI) that allows a user to connect a first identity in a first social community to a second identity in a second social community by allowing the user to specify the first identity and the second identity;
- linking the first identity and the second identity responsive to the user specifying the first identify and the second identity;
- responsive to a querying user, different and distinct from the user, utilizing the presenting to the querying user with an option to identify one or more connections in the first social community according to at least a criterion with particular members associated with another identity in the second social community;
- identifying the one or more connections in the first social community other than the querying user based on the at least one criterion responsive to the querying user selecting the option by searching for linked identities in the first social community and the second social community and filtering the linked identities by the at least one criterion;
- and
- presenting the one or more connections to the querying user, wherein
- the user and the one or more connections are members of the first social community, and the querying user is presented with the one or more connections in the first social community and how the querying user is related with the one or more connections in the first social community,
- the querying user is a member of the first social community, and
- the particular members associated with the other identity in the second social community are not members of the first social community and are not linked to the querying user in the second social community.
A system to bridge relationships across social networks, comprising:
- a storage device;
- a hardware processor;
- and
- a user interface module executing on the hardware processor and operable to
- receive, from a user, a specified first identity associated with a first online social community and a specified second identity associated with a second online social community,
- link the first identity and the second identity responsive to receiving the first identify and the second identity and store the linked first identity and the second identity in the storage device,
- present to a querying user, different and distinct from the user, an option to identify one or more connections in the first social community according to at least one criterion with particular members associated with another identity in the second social community,
- identify the one or more connections in the first social community other than the querying user based on the at least one criterion responsive to the querying user selecting the option by searching for linked identities in the first social community and the second social community and filtering the linked identities by the at least one criterion,
- present the one or more connections to the querying user, wherein
- the user and the one or more connections are members of the first social community, and the querying user is presented with the one or more connections in the first social community and how the querying user is related with the one or more connections in the first social community,
- the querying user is a member of the first social community, and
- the particular members associated with the other identity in the second social community are not members of the first social community and are not to the querying user in the second social community.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.