IP Library Granted Patent US 10,516,643
Granted Patent B2
US 10,516,643 · App. 15/638,365 · Granted Dec 24, 2019

Client side social network response tracking

Inventors: Patrick J. O'Sullivan (Dublin, IE); Hema Srikanth (Cary, NC); Carol S. Zimmet (Boxborough, MA)
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
H04L51/32G06Q10/10H04L51/12H04L51/24H04L67/306
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,516,643
App. No.
15/638,365
Granted
Dec 24, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to response subscriptions and provide a method, system and computer program product for response tracking across social networks. In one embodiment of the invention, a social networking response tracking method can be provided. The method can be performed by client-side logic and can include associating subscribers with a user or a group of users based upon a posting by the user or a user in the group of users within a client computing device for the user, aggregating different postings from the user to correspondingly different forums disposed about a global computer communications network, and, notifying the subscribers of the aggregated postings.

Claims (5)

1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for social networking response tracking, the computer program product comprising:

computer usable program code for associating a plurality of subscribers with a user based upon a posting by the user within a client computing device for the user;

computer usable program code for aggregating different postings from the user to correspondingly different forums coupled to the client computing device over a global computer communications network;

computer usable program code for notifying a subset of the plurality of subscribers of the aggregated different postings in response to determining the plurality of subscribers expressing a preference for not receiving postings of a determined type of forum; and,

computer usable program code for providing a search engine interface to the aggregated different postings.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 15, 2021
From: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
To: AIRBNB, INC.
Reel/Frame 056427/0193 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 30, 2017
From: O'SULLIVAN, PATRICK J.; SRIKANTH, HEMA; ZIMMET, CAROL S.
To: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 042870/0547 →