REAL TIME MEDIA-BASED SOCIAL NETWORK NOTIFICATIONS
Real time media-based social network notifications are utilized to provide updates of events that occur in a social network in real time. By providing a data feed of events which are monitored in the social network to a real time media system such as a presence-based messaging network, users can be kept up to date with events as they occur in the social network with alerts or instant messages.
1 . A method for providing a notification in real time to a user of a presence-based network, the method comprising the steps of:
monitoring events that occur in a social network;
responsively to the monitoring, generating a notification about an event; and
sending the notification for delivery to the user through the presence-based network.
2 . The method of claim 1 in which the presence-based network is an IM network.
3 . The method of claim 2 in which notification is delivered through an IM messaging interface.