System for digital yearbook

• US 10,380,102 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2016
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WolfPack Products LLC
• Original Assignee: WolfPack Products LLC
• Inventors: Olson, Anthony M., Winquist, Jennifer Kay, Richard, Joseph G., Liebenow, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shaw, Robert A
• Application Number:
  US15/162,730
• Publication Number:
  US 20160267126A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,176 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0273 Determination of fees for advertising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A system and method for providing meeting services in a digital yearbook includes a server and a user device for presenting media content. User interfaces are provided to each user for specifying tendencies, skills and likes of each of the yearbook users and for specifying desired tendencies, desired skills and desired likes of another of the yearbook users who a yearbook user would like to meet. The desired tendencies, skills, and likes contrasts the tendencies, skills and likes of the yearbook users so as to find a friend with differences, thereby balancing and contrasting those of the yearbook user. For example, tendencies are introverted/extroverted, skills are math/science, and likes are music/football, etc.

Claims

1. A method for providing a customized digital yearbook with meeting services comprising:

creating a plurality of yearbook user accounts, each yearbook user account associated with a yearbook user;

capturing content for a yearbook into a database;

wherein the content is associated with the yearbook user accounts, the content being selected from the group consisting of text, images, video and audio;

editing and organizing the content within the database;

determining approved content, the approved content being a subset of the content that is approved for distribution in the customized digital yearbook;

providing access to the approved content by devices associated with each of the yearbook user accounts;

providing social network services to the yearbook user accounts, the social networking services including messaging between at least two yearbook users;

providing services for meeting other yearbook users, wherein the meeting services include;

providing user interfaces to accept tendencies, skills and likes, of each of the yearbook users,

the user interfaces also accepting desired tendencies, desired skills, and desired likes from at least a first yearbook user;

wherein at least one of the desired tendencies, the desired skills, and the desired likes of the first yearbook user is different from the tendencies, the skills, and the likes of the first yearbook user;

finding at least one other yearbook user having at least one of the tendencies, the skills and the likes that correspond to the at least one desired tendencies, desired skills and desired likes of the first yearbook user that differs from the tendencies, the skills and the likes of the first yearbook user; and

presenting, on the display of at least one device of the devices associated with the first yearbook user, the name, tendencies, skills and likes of the at least one other yearbook user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of providing social network services to the yearbook user accounts includes providing a buddy list for each of the yearbook user accounts, each of the buddy lists including one or more yearbook user accounts of a buddy.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of providing the user interfaces to accept the desired tendencies, the desired skills, and the desired likes, of the yearbook user comprises:

defining differences between the tendencies of the yearbook user and the desired tendencies of the yearbook user, defining differences between the skills of the yearbook user and the desired skills of the yearbook user, and defining differences between the likes of the yearbook user and the desired likes of the yearbook user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the tendencies include introverted, extroverted, emotional, factual, and a sexual orientation.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the skills include math, science, history, and biology.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the likes include football, softball, music, and cooking.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the desired traits include introverted, extroverted, emotional, factual, and a sexual orientation.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the desired skills include math, science, history, and biology.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the desired likes include football, softball, music, and cooking.

10. A method for providing a customized digital yearbook with meeting services, the method performed by a computer having computer-executable instructions stored on non-transitory computer-readable media, the non-transitory computer-readable media interfaced to a computer, the computer executing the computer-executable instructions to implement the method comprising the steps of:

capturing content for a yearbook;

wherein the content is associated with the yearbook user accounts, the content being selected from the group consisting of text, images, video and audio;

storing the content in a database;

editing and organizing the content within the database under control of an administrator, including extracting approved content from the content, the approved content being a subset of the content that is approved for distribution in the customized digital yearbook;

creating a plurality of yearbook user accounts, each of the yearbook user accounts associated with a recipient of the approved content;

providing access to the approved content by devices associated with each of the yearbook user accounts;

providing social network services accessible by the plurality of yearbook user accounts, the social network services including messaging between at least two yearbook accounts of the plurality of yearbook user accounts,

providing services for meeting other yearbook users, wherein the meeting services include;

providing user interfaces to accept tendencies, skills and likes, of each of the yearbook users;

the user interfaces also accepting desired tendencies, desired skills, and desired likes from at least a first yearbook user;

wherein at least one of the desired tendencies, the desired skills, and the desired likes of the first yearbook user is different from the tendencies, the skills, and the likes of the first yearbook user;

finding at least one other yearbook user having at least one of the tendencies, the skills and the likes corresponding to the at least one desired tendencies, desired skills and desired likes of the first yearbook user that differs from the tendencies, the skills and the likes of the first yearbook user; and

presenting, on the display of at least one device of the devices associated with the first yearbook user, the name, tendencies, skills and likes of the at least one other yearbook user.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

delivering the customized data to a device associated with the first user; and

presenting the customized data at the device.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the tendencies include introverted, extroverted, emotional, factual, and a sexual orientation;

the skills include math, science, history, and biology; and

the likes include football, softball, music, and cooking.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the desired tendencies include introverted, extroverted, emotional, factual, and a sexual orientation;

the desired skills include math, science, history, and biology; and

the desired likes include football, softball, music, and cooking.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of providing the user interfaces to accept the desired tendencies, the desired skills, and the desired likes, of the yearbook user comprises defining differences between the tendencies of the yearbook user and the desired tendencies of the yearbook user, defining differences between the skills of the yearbook user and the desired skills of the yearbook user, and defining differences between the likes of the yearbook user and the desired likes of the yearbook user.