Method for streamlining communications between groups of primary and secondary users, wherein communication capabilities between primary and secondary users are based on whether the user is a primary or secondary user
First Claim
1. A method for streamlining communications between groups of users, the method comprises the steps of:
- (A) providing a plurality of user accounts managed by the remote server, wherein each user account is associated with a corresponding user personal computing (PC) device, and wherein the plurality of user accounts is separated into a plurality of primary accounts and a plurality of secondary accounts;
(B) providing a plurality of representative groups managed by the remote server, wherein each user account is associated to at least one corresponding group from the plurality of representative groups;
(C) enabling each secondary account to broadcast a secondary-to-primary message to the primary accounts associated to at least one allowed group through the remote server, wherein the allowed group is one of the plurality of representative groups;
(D) enabling each primary account to unicast or multicast a primary-to-secondary message to at least one specific secondary account from the plurality of secondary accounts through the remote server; and
(E) enabling each primary account from each representative group to broadcast a primary-to-primary message to the primary accounts associated to at least one recipient group through the remote server, wherein the recipient group is one of the plurality of representative groups.
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Abstract
A method for method for streamlining communications between groups of users uses multiple user accounts and a remote server. Each user account is associated to a user PC device. Additionally, the method associates each user with a representative group. The user account is identified as a primary account or a secondary account. As a result, primary accounts are granted greater messaging permissions than secondary accounts. To that end, the secondary accounts are able to broadcast messages to all of the primary accounts that are associated to a representative group. The primary accounts on the other hand are able to selectively send messages to one or more individual secondary accounts. Moreover, the primary accounts are able to broadcast messages to the primary accounts that are associated to any of the representative groups.
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1. A method for streamlining communications between groups of users, the method comprises the steps of:
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(A) providing a plurality of user accounts managed by the remote server, wherein each user account is associated with a corresponding user personal computing (PC) device, and wherein the plurality of user accounts is separated into a plurality of primary accounts and a plurality of secondary accounts; (B) providing a plurality of representative groups managed by the remote server, wherein each user account is associated to at least one corresponding group from the plurality of representative groups; (C) enabling each secondary account to broadcast a secondary-to-primary message to the primary accounts associated to at least one allowed group through the remote server, wherein the allowed group is one of the plurality of representative groups; (D) enabling each primary account to unicast or multicast a primary-to-secondary message to at least one specific secondary account from the plurality of secondary accounts through the remote server; and (E) enabling each primary account from each representative group to broadcast a primary-to-primary message to the primary accounts associated to at least one recipient group through the remote server, wherein the recipient group is one of the plurality of representative groups. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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