Social processing member offering fixed and intelligent services

摘要

A social networking system offers a variety of fixed and intelligent services and social device resources participating as members in a social network (SNET) group. Such members may include, for example, social billing and payment services, digital assistants and artificial intelligence functions, robotic control and training services, media content storage and playback services, data backup services, services that support distributed processes such as distributed research projects, networking elements such as network attached storage (NAS), firewalls, proxies, etc. In various embodiments, such services and resources may become available upon being selectively docked or otherwise associated (e.g., through docking of a supporting device) with a SNET group by a human member or third party via a docked user device. Selection of available services may be supported through a visual menu provided by a member device or support service.

主权项

1. A social network infrastructure used with a plurality of devices, the social network infrastructure comprising:
processing circuitry configured to implement: a membership management module that manages membership related to a plurality of social groups that includes a first social group, the first social group including the plurality of human members and a plurality of non-human members, the plurality of non-human members including the plurality of devices, the membership management module establishing membership of the non-human members that is separate and apart from membership of the human members; a docking module that manages docking of non-human members to the first social group; and a support service to support a first of the plurality of human members in adding a selected service as a non-human member of the first social group via the docking module.