Method for posing requests in a social networking site

US9930000B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Thorsten Krueger · Niehagen, DE
• Manfred Langen · Mönchengladbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 10, 2015
• Grant date: Mar 27, 2018
• Expiry date: Apr 25, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/01
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method poses requests in a social networking site by a submitting user by a terminal connected to a communication network to a previously unknown group of receiving users is disclosed. A relationship data model is provided which comprises objects linked to each other by semantic and/or a social relations. The question, i.e. content of the request, generally includes a question text in a text format, preferably in a natural language such as English. The question text includes one or more request meta data terms, whereby each request meta data term includes an identifier symbol, a connector symbol and a connector. The at least one request meta data term is then mapped to objects of the relationship data model. This mapping results in generating at least one group of receiving users. The submitted message is finally distributed via the communication network to the group of receiving users.