Method and system for secure, community profile generation and access via a communication system

• US 20040111423A1
• Filed: 07/14/2003
• Published: 06/10/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cricket Media, Inc. (Cricket Media Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Cricket Media, Inc. (Cricket Media Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Mulligan, Steve, Irving, John, Bursztein, Marcello, Lajeunesse, Patrick
• Application Number:
  US10/619,101
• Publication Number:
  US 20040111423A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

The present invention is a method and system for monitoring and filtering of data transmission to permit the creation of a secure web-based “virtual meeting place” through which a scientist, business person, educator or other individual can use the Internet to link themselves or their group or student to others to work collaboratively and create a shared environment. A community is formed by having a person who is interested in participating in a collaborative project or just exchanging data on a given subject submit preliminary profile data to a digital storage center. The data may contain a description of the project and a general description of the of the collaboration level sought. A first filter system is employed to ascertain, verify and control the entrance of data to ensure the legitimacy of the entering party. A profile is then crated and, in conjunction with a search engine, the data storage center and other related locations are searched for compatible profiles and a community is created. The system also contains the capability of dynamic filtering and monitoring to provide a safe and secure community and to increase the perceived feeling of the nature of the community.

Claims

1. An apparatus for community generation by monitoring and filtering data transmission to screen unwanted material comprising a community filter means to permit qualified individuals to join a specific community, profile creation means to describe each qualified individual, a hierarchical infrastructure for initially screening data to create a varying degrees of accessibility to input data, a dynamic search engine to permit those members of the community to search the data initially screened within the limit permitted by the hierarchical infrastructure, a dynamic filter controlled by a central location to permit monitoring and filtering of the data transmitted and structuring of the infrastructure and a flagging filter component to scan messages and data prior to delivery.