Patent ID: 9697527
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A social networking response tracking method comprising: associating a plurality of subscribers with a user based upon a posting by the user within a centralized response tracking system; aggregating different postings from the user to correspondingly different forums disposed about a global computer communications network within the centralized response tracking system in a data store of responses by: (1) receiving notifications from the content browser associated with the user of the different postings to the correspondingly different forums; and, for each notification, retrieving an associated posting from a corresponding one of the forums and storing the retrieved posting in a data store in response to the notification, and (2) receiving notifications from the different forums of the different postings by the user and, for each notification, retrieving an associated posting from a corresponding one of the forums and storing the retrieved posting in a data store in response to the notification; determining a type of forum for each of the different forums and filtering the subscribers to a subset that excludes those of the plurality of the subscribers who have registered a preference not to receive postings from forums of a forum type determined for one or more of the different forms; notifying the subset of the aggregated postings from the centralized response tracking system; and, searching the data store of responses using a content searching engine in order to provide further filtering and aggregating of the postings; each one of the plurality of subscribers configured to select at least one of the different postings of the user to the correspondingly different forums by activating a user interface add-on in each one of their content browsers, wherein access to the different postings of the user to the correspondingly different forums is limited for the plurality of subscribers based upon an established security policy.