System for managing and messaging critical student information

• US 20060263757A1
• Filed: 05/17/2006
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Message Logix, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Message Logix, Inc.
• Inventors: Bender, T. Gregory
• Granted Patent: US 8,180,274 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/350
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F

Abstract

A system for managing critical student information is disclosed generally comprising storing information associated with individual students, such as important medical information or contact information for the student'"'"'s parent or guardian, and providing different authorized users, such as school administrators, teachers, or coaches, permission to access the information and/or send messages for particular students. The stored information for each student is associated with one or more group identifiers, which identify particular groups of which the student is a member, such as a school or team, and each authorized user is likewise associated with one or more group identifiers, which identify the particular groups for which the user has access and can send messages.

Claims

1. A method of managing student information, comprising:

storing communication data for each one of a plurality of students;

associating at least one of a plurality of group identifiers with the stored communication data for each of the plurality of students, wherein each of the group identifiers identifies a group of students;

storing a plurality of sender identifiers, wherein each sender identifier identifies a particular sender of student information;

associating with each sender identifier at least one of the plurality of group identifiers, wherein each of the group identifiers associated with a particular sender identifier identifies a group for which the particular sender identified by the particular sender identifier is authorized to send student information;

receiving a sender identifier via a user input and, in response thereto, retrieving each of the group identifiers associated with the received sender identifier; and

communicating student information to at least one destination using the communication data stored for at least one student having a group identifier associated therewith that is also a group identifier that is associated with the received sender identifier.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of receiving a selection command from the user, wherein the selection command selects at least one group identifier from among a plurality of group identifiers associated with the received sender identifier, and wherein the step of communicating comprises communicating the student information only to groups associated with selected group identifiers.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of communicating comprises communicating student information to more than one destination corresponding to a particular student.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of storing a message supplied by the user, wherein the step of communicating student information comprises communicating the message to the at least one destination.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein message is created using a template.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the message is a fundraising registration form.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of receiving scheduling data, wherein the scheduling data indicates when the student information is to be communicated, and wherein the step of communicating comprises communicating the student information according to the scheduling data.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the step of communicating the student information according to the scheduling data comprises transmitting recurring messages.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein a first one of the groups is a subgroup of a second one of the groups.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the group identifier associated with the subgroup identifies a group consisting of students that attend a particular school, are in a particular grade, are in a particular class, have a particular medical condition, are on a particular team, or are in a particular club.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

receiving recipient data for each destination to which the student information was communicated, wherein the recipient data received for a particular destination indicates whether the information communicated to the particular destination was received; and

recording the received recipient data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the received recipient data includes recipient data for student information communicated via electronic mail, wherein the received recipient data for electronic mail further indicates whether the electronic mail has been read.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising repeating the step of communicating the student information for each particular destination for which the recipient data received therefor indicates that the student information was not received.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of communicating student information comprises communicating text information.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the communication data comprises at least one of a telephone number and an electronic mail address, and the text information comprises at least one of a text message, a facsimile, and an electronic mail message.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of communicating student information comprises communicating an audible message.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the communication data comprises a telephone number.

18. A method of managing student information, comprising:

storing student data for each one of a plurality of students;

associating at least one of a plurality of group identifiers with the stored student data for each of the plurality of students, wherein each of the group identifiers identifies a group of students;

storing a plurality of user identifiers, wherein each user identifier identifies a particular user;

associating with each user identifier at least one of the plurality of group identifiers, wherein each of the group identifiers associated with a particular user identifier identifies a group for which the particular user identified by the particular user identifier has access to the student data;

receiving a user identifier via a user input and, in response thereto, retrieving each of the group identifiers associated with the received user identifier;

receiving a request from the user identified by the received user identifier to retrieve the student data stored for a particular student and, in response thereto, determining whether the student data stored for the particular student has a group identifier associated therewith that is also a group identifier associated with the received user identifier; and

providing the user identified by the received user identifier with the student data stored for the particular student only if the student data stored for the particular student has a group identifier associated therewith that is also a group identifier associated with the received user identifier.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the student data comprises communication data.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising the step of communicating information to a destination corresponding to the particular student using the communication data stored for the particular student.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the student data comprises medical data.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the medical data comprises a doctor identification data.

23. The method of claim 18, wherein the student data comprises parent surrogate identification data.

24. The method of claim 18, further comprising uploading the student data to a remote device.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the step of uploading comprises uploading the student data to a portable communication device.

26. The method of claim 18, further comprising the step of associating at least one of a plurality of guardian identifiers with the stored student data for each of the plurality of students, wherein each of the guardian identifiers identifies a person authorized to provide the student data associated therewith.

27. The method of claim 18, further comprising the step of uploading the student data for each of the plurality of students to a school database for storage thereon.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the school database is located at a first school, further comprising the steps of:

deleting the student data for at least some of the students from the school database at the first school; and

uploading the deleted student data to a second school database located at a second school.

29. A method of managing student information, comprising:

storing student data for each one of a plurality of students, wherein the student data includes communication data;

associating at least one of a plurality of group identifiers with the stored student data for each of the plurality of students, wherein each of the group identifiers identifies a group of students;

storing a plurality of user identifiers, wherein each user identifier identifies a particular user;

associating with each user identifier at least one of the plurality of group identifiers, wherein each of the group identifiers associated with a particular user identifier identifies a group for which the particular user identified by the particular user identifier has access to the student data;

receiving a user identifier via a user input and, in response thereto, retrieving each of the group identifiers associated with the received user identifier;

receiving a request from the user identified by the received user identifier to retrieve the student data stored for a particular student and, in response thereto, determining whether the student data stored for the particular student has a group identifier associated therewith that is also a group identifier associated with the received user identifier;

providing the user identified by the received user identifier with the student data stored for the particular student only if the student data stored for the particular student has a group identifier associated therewith that is also a group identifier associated with the received user identifier; and

communicating information to a destination using the communication data stored for the particular student.