Community notification based on profile update

摘要

A notification machine may receive an update to a user profile that describes a user and indicates a group of users as being socially connected to the user by a social network. The update may reference a community (e.g., an employer or a club) of the user. The user profile may be modified by including a reference to the community within the user profile. The notification machine may identify a further user who is included in the community (e.g., employed by the employer, or part of the club). The further user may be socially unconnected to the user by the social network. The notification machine may then generate and provide a notification that the further user is employed by the employer. This notification may contain suggestions that the user initiate communication with the further user, become socially connected with the further user, or both.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving an update to a user profile that describes a user and indicates a group of users socially connected to the user by a social network,
the update referencing a community of the user and being received from a device of the user; modifying the user profile based on the update by including a reference to the community of the user within the user profile; identifying a further user that is included in the community and that is socially unconnected to the user by the social network,
the identifying of the further user being performed by a processor of a machine based on the update that references the community of the user; and generating and providing a notification that the further user is included in the community,
the generating of the notification incorporating a community profile of the community into the notification,the notification being provided to the device of the user and including the community profile of the community.