Patent ID: 8725826
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for linking users into social interactions across a data communications network of plural network-connectable devices based on a search for user-specified content accessible via the network, wherein executing coded instructions stored at a tangible, non-transitory data storage medium via data processing circuitry of one or more of the plural network-connectable devices, causes the network-connectable device to execute operations, comprising: identifying content metadata included in a user-specified network search query executed by the user at one of the plural network-connectable devices; providing to the user a user-selectable option to include among content found in response to the user-specified search query all content having metadata that is similar to the identified content metadata and that has been engaged in by at least one other user who is registered to receive content-based live social network linking; identifying an item of found content having metadata that is similar to the metadata included in the search query; identifying whether the item of found content is registered for enabling social interactions between users; identifying another user that has indicated an interest to be linked into a network-enabled social interaction relative to either or both of the item of found content and the identified content metadata; establishing a live social network link between the user and the other user in response to a selection by the user; and displaying to the user, at a display device operably coupled with one of the plural network-connectable devices, an n-dimensional virtual environment and an indication therein of the established live social network link.