Method and system to update user activities from the world wide web to subscribed social media web sites after approval

Inventors: Johnson Manuel-Devadoss (Pearland, TX); Christy Aarthi Jones (Pearland, TX)

Assignees: Johnson Manuel-Devadoss; Christy Aarthi Jones

G06F17/30864 G06F17/30867

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Patent No.: US 8,788,479
App. No.: 13/726,695
Granted: Jul 22, 2014
Kind: B2

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Abstract

Disclosed is a system and method to search the World Wide Web for latest user activities and information and update the user activities and information to user subscribed social media websites with user's approval. User subscribes their personal information and interests to the present invention. Present invention crawls and formats the information available in the World Wide Web for the provided user information and interests. The formatted information is notified to the user for approval. The user reviews the information, accepts or rejects the information. The user can edit the information to change the content. The approved information is updated to user subscribed social media websites.

Claims (47)

1. A method to update user activities from the World Wide Web to subscribed social media web sites after approval, the method comprising:

generating a plurality of content for the plurality of user about the plurality of user activities that are available in the World Wide Web to update them to a plurality of user subscribed social media web sites by allowing the user to modify the content while approving the notification message;

storing in a database a plurality of user profiles;

crawling the World Wide Web for plurality of web pages and storing crawled web pages in a database;

indexing a plurality of crawled web pages and storing them in a database;

querying for plurality of information about one or more users available in the user profile database from the database said in indexing step;

generating a plurality of notification messages for plurality of users available in the user profile database;

storing a plurality of notification messages for users in notification database;

sending plurality of notification messages to a plurality of users using users preferred notification method;

receiving approved notification messages from the plurality of users;

updating a plurality of modified notification messages from plurality of users in notification database;

retrieving a plurality of approved notification messages from notification database and a plurality of social media websites along with credentials for the plurality of users from user profile database;

updating the plurality of approved notification messages of users to their corresponding subscribed social media websites.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a user profile comprises of information about the user and user interests to uniquely identify the user activities in World Wide Web, subscribed social media websites along with login credentials, preferred notification method to receive notification messages.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating a notification message is a formatted content about the user or user related activities available in World Wide Web.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein sending notification message refers to obtaining a user approval for the user activities and user interest related information found in the World Wide Web prior to updating to the user subscribed social media websites.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a modified notification message is a modified content by the user while reviewing the notification message before approving the notification message.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein a user activity is a description of an action taken by the user or description of user interests that is available in the World Wide Web.

7. A computer system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to:

generate a plurality of content for the plurality of user about the plurality of user activities that are available in the World Wide Web to update them to a plurality of user subscribed social media web sites by allowing the user to modify the content while approving the notification message;

store a plurality of user profile information in a database in association with user identification;

retrieve a plurality of user activities for the plurality of users available in the user profile database by crawling, indexing the World Wide Web and querying the indexed information;

generate a plurality of notification messages for the plurality of user activities retrieved from the World Wide Web;

store a plurality of notification messages in notification database in association with user identification and message identification;

send a generated plurality of notification messages to the plurality of users using their desired notification method;

receive a plurality of user approvals for the plurality of notification messages and update the received plurality of notification messages in the notification database in association with user identification and message identification;

retrieve a plurality of user approved notification messages from the notification database and update to user subscribed plurality of social media web sites.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a processor for performing a method to update user activities from the World Wide Web to subscribed social media web sites after approval, the method comprising: