Patent Document ID: 8539359
Application ID: 12369274

Base Claim:
1. A non-abstract machine system that is structured to automatically present as first presentations to a first user of the system, user-acceptable invitations to join in on telecommunications-mediated information exchange forums and/or to automatically present in the first presentations to the first user, user-acceptable suggestions of additional telecommunications-conveyed informational content to investigate, wherein the presented invitations and/or suggestions are based on content that the first user is presented with and are based on automatically repeated determinations by the machine system of what specific sub-portion or specific sub-portions of the presented content the first user more recently centered his or her attention upon, wherein the automatically repeated determinations regarding attention are carried out transparently by the machine system without need for diverted centering of attention by the user directed to aiding the automatically repeated transparent determinations by the machine system, the machine system comprising: a presentation format controller that determines or controls at least one of: whether or not a given user-acceptable invitation or user-acceptable suggestion is presented to the first user; when a given first presentation is presented; what order of presentation is used for multiple ones of the first presentations; at what rate multiple ones of the first presentations are automatically presented; and in what format are the given one or multiple ones of the first presentations automatically presented to the first user; wherein at least a portion of the machine system includes a data processing machine, and wherein said automatically determined and more recent centerings of attention by the first user occurred no more than at least one of: 3 hours prior to said presentation of the first presentations to the first user; and a determined time duration prior to said presentation of the first presentations to the first user, the determined time duration being determined based on a currently active profile characterizing the first user.

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Claim 65:
65. The machine system of claim 1 wherein: the invitations and/or suggestions are automatically successively presented over time to the first user; and the presentation format controller is configured to determine or control the rate at which the invitations and/or suggestions are successively presented as a function of at least one of: a determined mood of the first user; a predefined rate limit corresponding to a subscription level of the first user; a machine system determined, information pull rate at which Current focus indicating records (CFi's) of the first user are pulled; a rate at which advertisement sponsors decide to invite different kinds of users that are of interest to the advertisement sponsors to corresponding online forums; how on-topic the received invitations/suggestions appear to be relative to a topic that machine system determines the first user appears to currently have on his or her mind; how aged are potentially-to-be presented invitations and/or suggestions relative to when corresponding CFi data was sent out on behalf of the first user for generating the potentially-to-be presented invitations and/or suggestions; how quickly acceptance by the first user is needed for the received invitations and/or suggestions before the latter become stale; how busy a local presentation machine of the first user is with higher priority tasks or not; a rate of CFi's servicings that is susceptible to being curtailed due to bandwidth limitations at a CFi's servicing center; an actuation by the first user of faster-rate-requesting flag that indicates the first user wants to be provided with a greater number of new invitations per unit of time; an actuation by the first user of slower-rate-requesting flag that indicates the first user wants to be provided with a smaller number of new invitations per unit of time; and a previous rate at which new invitations were presented to the first user.