Patent ID: 9224095
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: G06F,G06N,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A system for a user of a social networking site, the system generating at least one of ideal post time suggestions and values associated with the ideal post time suggestions, the system comprising: a user database for storing information about the user and information about followers that follow activity of the user on the social networking site; a timestamp database for storing times at which the followers post to the social networking site; and a computer for generating the ideal post time suggestions for the user, wherein the computer calculates the ideal post time suggestions by acquiring follower attributes, computing and assigning a score to each of the followers based on the follower attributes and the information in the user database, generating activity models for each of the followers based on times in the timestamp database, weighting the activity models based on the score assigned to each of the followers, and aggregating the weighted activity models of the followers.