Social network informed mashup creation

US8560606B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Al Chakra · Cary, US
• John K. Gerken, III · Apex, US
• Ruthie D. Lyle · Durham, US
• Mark E. Maresh · Rochester Hills, US
• Eric Allen Stegner · Durham, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 1, 2010
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 21, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/01
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A plurality of mashups created by a plurality of mashup authors indicated as being in a community relevant to a mashup based, at least in part, on social network data are identified in response to indication of a mashup building operation. Frequencies of a plurality of mashup configurations used by the plurality of mashup authors in the plurality of mashups are determined according to data about the plurality of mashups. A set of one or more recommendations that are associated with a set of one or more of the plurality of mashup configurations is generated for the mashup.