Providing contextual relevance of an unposted message to an activity stream after a period of time elapses

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9313165-B2
Application number	US-201414554244-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 26, 2014
Priority date	Feb 5, 2014
Publication date	Apr 12, 2016
Grant date	Apr 12, 2016

Abstract

A method, system and computer program product for providing contextual relevance of an unposted message to an activity stream after a period of time elapses. A comparison is made between the current state of the activity stream at a second point in time with respect to the state of the activity stream at a first point in time, which includes an unposted message. The relevance of the unposted message with respect to a current topic of interest in the activity stream at the second point in time is quantified. If the contextual relevance of the unposted message with respect to the current topic of interest in the activity stream at the second point in time is less than a threshold, then the user is presented with an indication of the contextual relevance of the unposted message to the activity stream.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for providing contextual relevance of an unposted message to an activity stream after a period of time elapses, the method comprising:
saving a state of said activity stream at a first point in time which includes a message created by a user that has not yet been posted;
comparing a state of said activity stream at a second point in time with respect to said state of said activity stream at said first point in time in response to a threshold amount of time elapsing since saving said state of said activity stream at said first point in time, wherein said second point of time occurs after said threshold period of time has elapsed since said first point in time;
identifying, by a processor, a current topic of interest and one or more users contributing to posts pertaining to said current topic of interest in said activity stream at said second point in time; and
presenting to said user said current topic of interest and a list of said one or more users contributing to posts pertaining to said current topic of interest in said activity stream at said second point in time in response to detecting a contextual relevance of said unposted message with respect to said current topic of interest in said activity stream at said second point in time being below a threshold.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:
utilizing natural language processing in comparing said state of said activity stream at said second point in time with respect to said state of said activity stream at said first point in time.

3. The method as recited in claim 2 , wherein said natural language processing compares one or more keywords in said unposted message to a context of said activity stream at said second point in time.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:
presenting to said user a social network relationship between said user and said users contributing to said posts pertaining to said current topic of interest in said activity stream at said second point in time.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:
receiving a modified message from said user, wherein said modified message modifies said message created by said user that has not yet been posted.

6. The method as recited in claim 5 further comprising:
posting said modified message onto a social network website.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:
quantifying a relevance of said message created by said user that has not yet been posted with respect to said current topic of interest in said activity stream at said second point in time; and
presenting to said user said quantification of said relevance of said message created by said user that has not yet been posted with respect to said current topic of interest in said activity stream at said second point in time.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Bastide Paul R
• Broomhall Matthew E
• Lu Fang
• Wang Weisong

Classifications

• H04L51/32 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/52 Primary

  for supporting social networking services · CPC title