Bridging relationships across enterprise and personal social networks

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016088030-A1
Application number	US-201414492797-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 22, 2014
Priority date	Sep 22, 2014
Publication date	Mar 24, 2016
Grant date	—

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.

First claim

1 .- 8 . (canceled)

9 . A computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method to bridge 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 another 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 user utilizing the UI, presenting the user with an option to identify one or more connections in the first social community according to a criteria with members associated with another identity in said another social community; identifying the one or more connections based on the criteria responsive to the user selecting an option by searching for linked identities in the first social community and said another social community and by filtering the linked identities by the criteria; and presenting the one or more connections to the user.

10 . The computer readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the criteria comprises one or more of a topic, a product, a selected text, a posting, a group membership, a department, an organization, expertise, a network, and a company.

11 . The computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the UI further allows the user to interactively adjust the criteria to filter connections, and interact with the filtered connections.

12 . The computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the interaction is a request to answer a posting.

13 . The computer readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the members associated with said another identity in said another social community are determined based on common characteristics between the members and said another identity.

14 . The computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the common characteristics comprise one or more of common threads, like indications, hash tags, shares, topic, interests and bookmarking a same uniform resource location (URL).

15 . The computer readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the first social community includes a personal social media group and said another community includes an enterprise social media group.

16 . The computer readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the first community and said another social community include social media sites.

17 . 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 a user specified first identity associated with a first online social community and a user specified second identity associated with another social community, the hardware processor operable to 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, the user interface module further operable to present to a user an option to identify one or more connections in the first social community according to a criteria with members associated with another identity in said another social community, the hardware processor further operable to identify said one or more connections based on the criteria responsive to the user selecting the option by searching for linked identities in the first social community and said another social community and by filtering the linked identities by the criteria, the user interface module further operable to present the one or more connections to the user.

18 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the criteria comprises one or more of a topic, a product, a selected text, a posting, a group membership, a department, an organization, expertise, a network, and a company.

19 . The system of claim 18 , wherein the user interface module further allows the user to interactively adjust the criteria to filter connections, and interact with the filtered connections.

20 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the first social community includes a personal social media group and said another community includes an enterprise social media group.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Banatwala Mustansir
• Brooks David A
• Leland Maureen G

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06F17/30867

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L65/403 Primary

  Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences (data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15) · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title