Systems and methods for enabling users of social-networking applications to interact using virtual personas
US9321969B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 4, 2012 |
| Grant date | Apr 26, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 4, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q50/01
- WIPO fieldBasic materials chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for enabling users of social-networking applications to interact using virtual personas may include (1) creating a social-networking identity associated with a user of a social-networking application, (2) creating a plurality of virtual personas that represent different real-life roles of the user as part of the user's social-networking identity, (3) receiving a request to perform at least one networking action that implicates at least one of the user's virtual personas, and then (4) directing the social-networking application to perform the networking action such that the networking action implicates the user's virtual persona without implicating the user's entire social-networking identity. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
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