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NEW YORK, NY (PRWEB) February 02, 2015

ICAP Patent Brokerage announces for sale patented methods to ensure a users privacy is maintained while still allowing participation in social networks, available from inventor John W. Ogilvie. This portfolio is offered as part of the Internet of Things IP Auction, with a bidding deadline of April 23rd, 2015.

These patents are of great value to online communities and social networks, where the ability to retain privacy encourages membership and participation, says Dean Becker, CEO of ICAP Patent Brokerage.

Key Characteristics & Benefits This portfolio discloses methods of protecting ones offline or true identity while participating in social networking, or any online community. Some of the patented methods help ensure that usernames protect user privacy. A proposed username is accepted only if it satisfies privacy criteria, which are based on the users personal identification information. The online user may receive questions regarding a proposed username and its relation, if any, to the user's offline identity. The privacy protection system may use a web search engine to help determine whether the proposed username pertains to personal information of the user.

Some of the patented methods help prevent the users offline identity from being revealed via comments, status updates, chat, email, instant messaging, blogs, forums, and other electronic communications. Electronic communication undergoes privacy review for information regarding offline identity characteristics such as geographic territory, profession, forum discussion topics, gender, marital status, ethnicity, race, age, organization membership, or religious affiliation. A goal of the privacy review is a lowered risk of disclosure of the member's offline identity within the online community. Results of the review are provided to the member, who then has the option of altering the communication.

This portfolio has strong implications regarding personal privacy preservation, online account security, and identity theft protection. In addition to the patented methods, pending applications claim other methods for balancing user privacy with legitimate commercial interests.

Sample forward citing companies include Allstate Insurance Company, Microsoft Corporation, and Kidzui, Inc.

See the technical description of the social networking privacy IP sales offering.

To learn more about the intellectual property available for sale in this portfolio: Contact Michelle Tyler of ICAP Patent Brokerage at (650) 741-4117 or via email at michelle@icapip.com.

If you have a patent portfolio for sale, visit our website to make a patent portfolio submission for an upcoming sealed bid event.

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It was only four short years ago that StumbleUpon was the biggest driver of social media traffic to websites. Look at this chart from StatCounter we shared in January, 2011.

A lot has changed in the social media landscape since then. For one thing, Pinterest didnt crack the top ten social networking services until December of that year. Now, its number two for social media traffic referrals, while Facebook has completely run away with the top spot. These days, StumbleUpon sits at a respectable number four, based on data from Shareaholic (Pinterest is at a comfortable number 2), but out of the eight social networks Shareaholic tracks, only Facebook and StumbleUpon saw growth in referrals in Q4.

StumbleUpon referrals are back on the rise after previously heading in the opposite direction, and this is likely due to various efforts by the company, including email and social media strategy, a new blogger program, and a change made to the functionality of the submit button for websites. We discussed all of this here.

But will websites continue to be able to get their content in front of the StumbleUpon audience and reap the traffic benefits? As you may or may not know, StumbleUpon made its first acquisition in 2013 when it bought video discovery platform 5by. It seems that much of the companys focus has been on this service, which essentially works like a StumbleUpon for video. Last year, 5by gained Chromecast support, opening the service up to all of those whove bought Googles super-cheap streaming device. 5by, which works great as a discovery service, does not rely on user-submitted content like StumbleUpon, however. Instead, its based on algorithms and an internal team of curators.

We asked StumbleUpon CEO Mark Bartels if the long-term goal is to continue these separate methods for content selection or whether well see both services follow similar models. It would appear that the latter is the plan, but instead of of StumbleUpon adopting the 5by approach, its likely that well see 5by adopt the StumbleUpon approach.

Long term as 5by scales youll see them leverage [the] SU ingestion engine which includes user submitted content, Bartels tells us.

In other words, 5by will only get more StumbleUpon-like. StumbleUpon users shouldnt worry about StumbleUpon becoming more 5by-like when it comes to submitted content. StumbleUpon has no plans to move away from user submissions.

Quite the opposite, Bartels says. The highest quality content is typically user submitted. The new iOS build now allows uses to submit from Safari. [The] majority of stumbles are now on mobile so giving users [the] ability to submit directly from their mobile browsers or via a badge is [a] great tool. The ingestion engine quickly eliminates duplicates, spam and low quality content. Doing this fast and reliably is key to scaling.

The downloadable StumbleUpon toolbar for web browsers used to be a major part of the StumbleUpon experience. These days, it doesnt seem to be the subject of a whole lot of focus from the company. For example, a while back, StumbleUpon made some changes to the submission experience from the Submit button, which sites (like the one youre on) display on their content. In the past, users would select categories and tags for the content, but now StumbleUpon dictates this categorization on its own. If you submit with the toolbar, however, you still get the old experience.

Asked if the bar is still being used much, Bartels says, It still has a lot of power users, but the team resources & growth is on mobile and Web Toolbar. Publishers and brands have made huge leaps in creating mobile optimized stories that load quickly and is user friendly.

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