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 6:
6. The system of claim 1 , where the social network tag further comprises a social network tag identification symbol, and the processor is further programmed to: provide, to the user in response to detection of the social network notification symbol followed by the social network tag identification symbol as part of the user input, a list of currently-available social network tag keywords defined within the social network; receive, via the user input device, a user-selected currently-available social network tag keyword from the provided list as the text keyword of the user input; and append the user-selected currently-available social network tag keyword to the detected social network tag identification symbol.