Apparatus, method and article to identify discrepancies between clients and in response prompt clients in a networked environment

Abstract

Information related to apparently successful end users is collected, stored, and used to generate at least one evaluation criteria to compare to at least one component of a respective end user desiring to become a successful end user. The information may be generated based on comparative information with other entities who appear to share some components with the respective end user. The components may be based on actual actions, preferences, constraints, attributes, etc. A number of components of the respective end user are compared relative to a set of defined evaluation criteria that specifies defined evaluation criteria for at least some of those components. In response to detecting at least one discrepancy, a prompt is provided to the respective end user indicative of the discrepancy.

1 . A method of operating a hosted-services system, the method comprising:
 identifying a subset of the users as successful users based at least in part on one or more defined success-evaluation criteria that include: a defined number or rate of positive interactions with other users, and a defined number of photos in a user's profile;   detecting a discrepancy from desired behavior between the components of a target user's user profile and a set of defined evaluation criteria, wherein the discrepancy is the piece of content;   determining whether the discrepancy from desired behavior is sufficiently large to cause a suggestion for correcting the discrepancy that includes modifying the user's messaging behavior, wherein the suggestion is changing the piece of content;   determining a first value indicative of the defined number of the photos in a user's profile; and   determining a second value indicative of the defined number the photos in a user's profile following a change in the piece of content in the user's profile, wherein a difference between the first value and the second value indicates an effectiveness of the change in the piece of content in attracting attention of the another user.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 determining a value that represents an action taken by the target user;   comparing the determined value to an evaluation-criteria value for the successful users;   determining whether a discrepancy exists between the determined value and the defined evaluation-criteria value for the successful users; and   in response to determining that the discrepancy exists, prompting the user of the existence of the discrepancy.   
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the user profile is compared to the set of defined evaluation criteria in response to a request received from the target user. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the user profile is compared to the set of defined evaluation criteria in response to an updating of the user profile by the target user. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the user profile is compared to the set of defined evaluation criteria automatically on a periodic basis, independent of any requests received from the target user. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 determining how recently the target user profile was updated;   comparing a recentness of the update of the target user profile to a defined evaluation recentness; and   identifying a discrepancy between the recentness of the update of the target user profile and the defined evaluation recentness.   
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising causing comparative information to be presented to the target user. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , further comprising causing presentation of comparative information of other users to the target user. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 8 , further comprising limiting the other users to ones in a certain geographic area. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 7 , further comprising comparing a total number of images of the target user to a total number of images for a set of other users who share common demographic information with the target user. 
     
     
         11 . A hosted services system comprising:
 communications ports that provide communications with a plurality of end user devices, the end user devices logically associable with a plurality of user client accounts of the processor-based hosted services, the user client accounts logically associable with user clients of the processor-based hosted service;   a nontransitory processor-readable medium that stores processor executable instructions; and   a processor communicatively coupled to the communications ports and the processor-readable medium, wherein the processor executes the processor-executable instructions and causes the processor to:
 identify a subset of the users as successful users based at least in part on one or more defined success-evaluation criteria that include at least 1) a defined number or rate of positive interactions with other users and 2) a recency of photos in a user's profile; 
 detect a discrepancy from desired behavior between the components of a target user's user profile and a set of defined evaluation criteria, wherein the discrepancy is the piece of content; 
 determine whether the discrepancy from desired behavior is sufficiently large to cause a suggestion for correcting the discrepancy that includes modifying the user's messaging behavior, wherein the at least one suggestion is changing the piece of content; 
 determine a first value indicative of the recency of the photos in a user's profile; and 
 determine a second value indicative of the recency of the photos in a user's profile following a change in the piece of content in the user's profile, wherein a difference between the first value and the second value indicates an effectiveness of the change in the piece of content in attracting attention of the another user. 
   
     
     
         12 . The hosted services system of  claim 11 , wherein the processor further:
 determines a value that represents an action taken by the target user;   compares the determined value to an evaluation-criteria value for the successful users;   determines whether a discrepancy exists between the determined value and the defined evaluation-criteria value for the successful users; and   in response to determining that the discrepancy exists, prompts the user of the existence of the discrepancy.   
     
     
         13 . The hosted services system of  claim 11 , wherein the processor compares the number of components in response to a request received from the target user. 
     
     
         14 . The hosted services system of  claim 11 , wherein the processor automatically compares the number of components in response to an updating of the user profile by the target user. 
     
     
         15 . The hosted services system of  claim 11 , wherein the processor automatically compares the number of components on a periodic basis, independent of any requests received from the target user. 
     
     
         16 . The hosted services system of  claim 11 , wherein the processor further:
 determines how recently the target user profile was updated;   compares a recentness of the update of the target user profile to a defined evaluation recentness; and   identifies a discrepancy between the recentness of the update of the target user profile and the defined evaluation recentness.   
     
     
         17 . The hosted services system of  claim 11 , wherein the processor further:
 determines how frequently the target user profile is updated;   compares the determined frequency of the updating of the target user profile to a defined evaluation frequency; and   identifies a discrepancy between the frequency of the updating of the target user profile and the defined evaluation frequency.   
     
     
         18 . The hosted services system of  claim 11 , wherein the processor further:
 determines how recently an image of the user was updated on the target user profile;   compares a recentness of the image update with a defined evaluation recentness; and   identifies a discrepancy between the recentness of the image update and the defined evaluation recentness.   
     
     
         19 . The hosted services system of  claim 11 , wherein the processor further:
 determines a length of a profile description, and   identifies a discrepancy between the determined length of the profile description and a defined evaluation profile description length.   
     
     
         20 . A method of operating a hosted-services system, the method comprising:
 identifying a subset of the users as successful users based at least in part on one or more defined success-evaluation criteria that include: a defined number or rate of positive interactions with other users, and a number of listed interests in a user's profile;   detecting a discrepancy from desired behavior between the components of a target user's user profile and a set of defined evaluation criteria, wherein the discrepancy is the piece of content;   determining whether the discrepancy from desired behavior is sufficiently large to cause a suggestion for correcting the discrepancy that includes modifying the user's messaging behavior, wherein the suggestion is changing the piece of content; and   determine a difference between a first value indicative of the number of the listed interests in a user's profile and a second value indicative of the number of the listed interests in a user's profile following a change in the piece of content in the user's profile that is indicates an effectiveness of the change in the piece of content in attracting attention of the another user.