Patent ID: 11875364
Assignee: VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A computer system including a processor and a memory storing control logic for causing the processor to create a feed of content items to be shared within a network of social-networking communities, the control logic comprising:
first computer-readable program code generating a plurality of community identifiers respectively each community identifier corresponding to a respective one of the social-networking communities, wherein each of the social-networking communities maintains separate account information for its user members that is inaccessible to other social-networking communities in the plurality of social-networking communities;
second computer-readable code storing a plurality of core profiles, each core profile corresponding to a respective core user member identifier associated with a respective one of a plurality of core users, wherein each of the core profiles includes community information, friend information and content information;
third computer readable code causing the processor to receive a first request to create a feed, the first request being received from a first one of the core users that is a registered member of a first one of the social-networking communities, the request including information for representing the feed, wherein the information includes a descriptor;
fourth computer-readable program code causing the processor to store each of a plurality of content items included in a plurality of second requests in association with the feed and in association with the first core user, wherein each content item includes desired content for the first social-networking community;
fifth computer-readable program code causing the processor to provide a webpage accessible to others of the core users that are not registered members of the first social-networking community and including a feed representation showing for each content item the descriptor; and
sixth computer-readable program code receiving and storing a modification permission indicating whether other core users are permitted to modify the feed.