Web community pre-population method and system

摘要

Populating users of a web community into groups. The users may be assigned to, or otherwise associated with, one or more groups in response to an event associated with the user, with another user, with a group, or other type of event. The users may also be removed from a group in response to an event. The population of users into groups can be controlled by a configurable set of rules. These rules can include criteria for associating a user with, or removing a user from, a group in response to an event. The criteria can include criteria based on user information and criteria based on group information. The users may be related to one another in a hierarchical structure.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
monitoring, by a computer device, a web community for an event, the event related to activity of at least one user among a plurality of users of the web community and comprised of a change in a user profile of one of a plurality of users that comprises a change in status comprising a hierarchical level within a web community corresponding to downline group associations; applying, by the computer device, a rule in response to detecting the event, said application of the rule being dependent upon a type of the detected event, said rule comprising membership criteria for a web community group and each downline group associated with the web community group, said rule applicable to a user profile for each of the plurality of users of each web community group within the web community, each user profile comprising information associated with the corresponding user; associating, by the computer device, each user with each of the web community groups upon each user's user profile satisfying the membership criteria for each of the web community groups; and storing, by the computer device, the associations in at least one data store; and sending, by the computer device, a notification to each user comprising an association with the web community, the notification indicating membership in the web community group.