Patent Document ID: 9495083
Application ID: 14279897

Base Claim:
1. A system, comprising: a user input device; and a processor programmed to: detect, via the user input device in association with a social network user interface, user input comprising a social network notification symbol followed by a social network tag, where the social network tag comprises a text keyword that identifies a social network topic within the social network; determine a subset of social network users within the social network that follow the social network topic identified by the text keyword of the social network tag; define a referential third-party social network user notification subset within the social network as the determined subset of social network users within the social network that follow the social network topic; and publish, to the defined referential third-party social network user notification subset within the social network, a referential third-party social network notification comprising the detected user input that comprises the social network notification symbol followed by the social network tag.

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Claim 2:
2. The system of claim 1 , where the processor is further programmed to: detect, via the user input device, an additional text portion of the user input following the social network notification symbol and the social network tag, where the additional text portion of the user input comprises a question asked by the user within the user input; where, in being programmed to publish, to the defined referential third-party social network user notification subset within the social network, the referential third-party social network notification comprising the detected user input that comprises the social network notification symbol followed by the social network tag, the processor is programmed to: publish the social network notification symbol followed by the social network tag followed by the additional text portion of the user input within the referential third-party social network notification; detect, via the user input device, a response to the question from at least one social network user that received the referential third-party social network notification; and send the detected response to the user that asked the question published within the referential third-party social network notification.