Patent ID: 9166944
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for controlling network communication, comprising: a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor; an analysis module capable of analyzing a social network in response to a request made by a user to send a message to a node in the social network; and a message control module capable of delaying for a period of time sending of the message based on a result of the analyzing, and sending the message in the social network after the period of time has elapsed; wherein the analysis module comprises a connection computation module capable of: determining a number of nodes connected to the user which are active on the social network, wherein the active nodes each correspond to at least one of an individual, group and organization; determining if the number of the active nodes on the social network is above a threshold value, wherein the message control module is capable of delaying the sending of the message if the number of the active nodes on the social network is less than the threshold value; and determining whether a combination of the number of the active nodes with at least one centrality value is less than the threshold value; wherein the at least one centrality value comprises a normalized value representing at least one of Degree Centrality (DC), Betweenness Centrality (BC), Closeness Centrality (CC), Eigenvalue Centrality (EC), and Hub/Authority (H/A).