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

Claim 0:
1. A method of creating a feed of content items to be shared within a network of social-networking communities, the method comprising:
generating, by a core server, 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;
storing, by the core server, 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 corresponding to a respective one of the core users;
receiving a first request to create a first feed on a first one of the social-networking communities, the first request being received from a first one of the core users that is a registered member of the first social-networking community, the first request including information representing the first feed and including a descriptor of the first feed;
receiving a plurality of second requests to add content items to the first feed;
storing each content item included in each of the second requests in association with the first feed and in association with the first core user, wherein each content item included in the second requests including desired content to be shared via the first social-networking community;
providing 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 included in each of the second requests the descriptor of the first feed; and
receiving and storing a modification permission generated by the first core user indicating whether other core users registered as members of the first social-networking community are permitted to modify the first feed.