Community Awareness Management Systems and Methods

• US 20080140718A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 06/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Carl R. Clark, CeleritasWorks, LLC (RGS Senior Management Group, LC)
• Original Assignee: CeleritasWorks, LLC (RGS Senior Management Group, LC)
• Inventors: Evans, Scott A., Lester, Brett A., Marshall, Robert L., Miley, Larry D.
• Application Number:
  US11/930,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20080140718A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0205 Location or geographical consideration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/205 Education administration or guidance

Abstract

A system and method links one or more disparate community awareness management (CAM) datasets for a community awareness program (CAP) with one or more spatial layers to create linked CAM datasets. One or more data attributes common to a CAM dataset and a spatial layer are identified, and the link is defined between the CAM dataset and the spatial layer. The spatial layer and the linked CAM dataset then may be queried using a single input query. Features from the spatial layer and features from the linked CAM dataset that match the query are generated for display. In one embodiment, a system and method manage CAP assets, transactions, interest areas for the CAP, and buffer areas for the CAP. An audience utility enables entering and maintaining audience data for the CAP. A journal utility enables making journal entries for one or more audience members, CAP assets, transactions, and/or other CAM data. A link document utility enables linking one or more documents to CAM data.

Claims

1. A system for managing community awareness management (CAM) data comprising feature data for a community awareness program (CAP) and geospatial data for an area for the CAP, the system operable with at least one processor and comprising a user interface configured to receive an input and to generate display elements corresponding to at least one query of the geospatial data and the feature data based on the input, the display elements comprising:

at least a portion of the area for the CAP;

at least one CAP asset;

at least one member of a group consisting of at least an interest area portion for the at least one CAP asset and at least a buffer area portion for the at least one CAP asset; and

at least one point feature in the CAP area portion displayed relative to the at least one member of the group consisting of the interest area portion and the buffer area portion, the at least one point feature indicating a location of at least one audience member.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one CAP asset comprises a pipeline, the buffer area portion comprises a pipeline buffer area portion, and the interest area portion comprises a pipeline interest area portion.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the at least one CAP asset comprises at least one second member of a second group consisting of at least one pipeline asset, at least one utility asset, and at least one call center asset;

the display elements comprise the buffer area portion; and

the buffer area portion comprises at least one third member of a third group consisting of a pipeline buffer area portion, a utility buffer area portion, and a call center buffer area portion.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate display elements identifying at least one second member of a second group consisting of utility interest area data, utility buffer area data, utility audit data, call center interest area data, call center buffer area data, call center audit data, pipeline interest area data, pipeline buffer area data, and pipeline audit data.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate the display elements comprising a plurality of point features in the CAP area portion, each point feature indicating another location of at least one other audience member.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the display elements comprise the buffer area portion and at least one of the plurality of point features displayed within the buffer area portion.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate selected feature data for display in a feature display frame.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the selected feature data comprises at least one second member of a second group consisting of buffer area data for the at least one CAP asset, interest area data for the at least one CAP asset, audience data for the at least one audience member, location data for the at least one CAP asset, other location data for the at least one audience member, journal data for the at least one CAP asset, other journal data for the at least one audience member, document data for the at least one CAP asset, other document data for the at least one audience member, audit data for the at least one CAP asset, and other audit data for the at least one audience member.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein the user interface is configured to generate a menu icon for the selected feature data and to generate a features menu upon selection of the menu icon.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the features menu comprises a link document feature and, upon selection of the link document feature, the user interface is configured to generate a link document utility configured to enable linking document data to other data for at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset and the at least one audience member.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein the features menu comprises an audience feature and, upon selection of the audience feature, the user interface is configured to generate an audience utility configured to enable entry of audience data associated with at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset and the at least one audience member.

12. The system of claim 9 wherein the features menu comprises a journal entry feature and, upon selection of the journal entry feature, the user interface is configured to generate a journal entry utility configured to enable entry of journal data associated with at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset and the at least one audience member.

13. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate at least one journal entry associated with at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset and the at least one audience member.

14. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate for display a plurality of journal entries associated with the at least one audience member.

15. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate document data identifying at least one document associated with at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one audience member and the at least one CAP asset.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the document data comprises a link for the document, wherein upon selection of the link, the user interface is configured to generate the document for display.

17. The system of claim 15 wherein the document data comprises the document, and the user interface is configured to generate at least some of the document for display in at least a portion of a display frame.

18. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate other audience data for at least one other audience member for display.

19. The system of claim 1 wherein the feature data comprises audience data, the audience data is editable, and the system further comprises a spatial management system configured to geocode edited audience data and new audience data.

20. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured with a link document utility configured to enable linking a selected document to other data for at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset and the at least one audience member.

21. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured with a journal entry utility configured to enable entering journal entry data associated with at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset and the at least one audience member.

22. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further comprises a tool input configured to accept entry of the input for the query.

23. The system of claim 1 wherein the CAM data comprises other geospatial data, and the user interface further is configured to generate another display element comprising map data identifying the other geospatial data and to accept a selection of the map data as the input.

24. The system of claim 23 wherein the map data comprises an identifier for the at least one audience member, the input comprises a selection of the identifier from the map data, and the user interface is configured to generate audience data for display for the at least one audience member upon selection of the identifier.

25. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface is configured to accept as the input at least one second member of a second group consisting of an address, a street, an intersection, a county, a zip code, a city, a state, a region, a location code, a SIC code, and a FIPS code.

26. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface is configured to accept as the input at least one second member of a second group consisting of an audience type, a journal entry type, a company name, a phone number, and a contact name.

27. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further comprises a documents utility configured to enable displaying a list of documents linked to selected feature data for at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset and the at least one audience member.

28. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further comprises an edit utility configured to enable editing audience data for the at least one audience member.

29. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface is configured to generate at least one second member of a second group consisting of an overview map configured to display the CAP area portion relative to a surrounding area and a map legend configured to identify at least one third member of a third group consisting of a color for the point feature and a symbol for the point feature.

30. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface is configured to enable entry of audience data for at least one second member of a second group consisting of the at least one CAP asset, the at least one audience member, and at least one other audience member.

31. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate a feature display frame configured to display selected feature data corresponding to the at least one query, the selected feature data comprising at least one second member of a second group consisting of CAP asset data and audience data.

32. The system of claim 1 wherein the user interface comprises a drag pan feature configured to enable selecting an image with at least the CAP area portion, dragging the image in a selected direction to scroll the image, and regenerating the image upon releasing the image at a selected point.

33. A system for managing community awareness management (CAM) data comprising feature data for a community awareness program (CAP) and geospatial data for an area for the CAP, the feature data comprising audience data for a plurality of audience members and CAP asset data, the system operable with at least one processor and further comprising a user interface configured to generate display elements corresponding to at least one query of the geospatial data and the feature data, the display elements comprising:

at least a portion of the area for the CAP;

at least one CAP asset in the CAP area portion;

at least a buffer area portion for the at least one CAP asset; and

a plurality of point features displayed relative to the buffer area portion, the plurality of point features indicating locations of at least some of the plurality of audience members.

34. The system of claim 33 wherein the user interface further is configured to generate selected feature data corresponding to the at least one query.

35. A system for managing community awareness management (CAM) data comprising feature data for a community awareness program (CAP) and geospatial data for an area for the CAP, the feature data comprising audience data for a plurality of audience members and CAP asset data, the system operable with at least one processor and further comprising a user interface configured to generate display elements corresponding to at least one query of the geospatial data and the feature data, the display elements comprising:

at least a portion of the area for the CAP;

at least one CAP asset portion in the CAP area portion;

at least an interest area portion for the at least one CAP asset; and

a plurality of point features displayed relative to the interest area portion, the plurality of point features indicating locations of at least some of the plurality of audience members.