User-generated community publication in a geo-spatial environment
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- generating a geo-spatial environment in which residents are represented as users, and in which residents have associated meta-data indicating at least one of a physical location and an electronic location of the users;
processing a user selection of at least one of a submit a story idea indicator and a become a journalist indicator;
processing a submission form when the submit the story idea indicator is selected, and adding a submitted story idea that is geo-tagged to a location identifier of the user to an ideas database, and which remains in the ideas database for a threshold amount of time;
transforming a status of a different user to being a community journalist when the different user elects the become a journalist indicator; and
altering a status of the submitted story idea as being checked out when the community journalist selects the submitted story idea as being one which the community journalist chooses to author.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system of a user-generated community publication in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a geo-spatial environment in which residents are represented as users, and in which residents have associated meta-data indicating a physical location and/or an electronic location of the users, processing a user selection of a submit a story idea indicator and/or a become a journalist indicator, processing a submission form when the submit the story idea indicator is selected, and adding a submitted story idea that is geo-tagged to a location identifier of the user to an ideas database, and which remains in the ideas database for a threshold amount of time, transforming a status of a different user to being a community journalist when the different user elects the become the journalist indicator and altering a status of the submitted story idea as being checked out when the community journalist selects the submitted story idea as being one which the community journalist chooses to author.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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generating a geo-spatial environment in which residents are represented as users, and in which residents have associated meta-data indicating at least one of a physical location and an electronic location of the users; processing a user selection of at least one of a submit a story idea indicator and a become a journalist indicator; processing a submission form when the submit the story idea indicator is selected, and adding a submitted story idea that is geo-tagged to a location identifier of the user to an ideas database, and which remains in the ideas database for a threshold amount of time; transforming a status of a different user to being a community journalist when the different user elects the become a journalist indicator; and altering a status of the submitted story idea as being checked out when the community journalist selects the submitted story idea as being one which the community journalist chooses to author. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method comprising:
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generating a set of story ideas which submitted by users of a geo-spatial social network and which are grouped based on a meta-data identifying at least one of a social, geographic, and interest based characteristic of the users which submit the set of story ideas; allocating at least one of the story ideas to a different user who has elected to be a community journalist in the geo-spatial social network, and, in response to a article submission by the community journalist, automatically formatting and screening relevant content when approved by a community editor; generating a community publication based on the relevant content submitted by the community journalist, other community journalists, and a user generated content data that includes an announcement data, a classifieds data, a user generated games data, and a personals data submitted by users who have joined a group which associates and subscribes them to the community publication; distributing the community publication to subscribed individuals through a direct mail and an electronic communication based on a circulation criteria as defined by a moderator of the community publication in the geo-spatial environment. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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18. A system, comprising:
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a publishing module to create a user generated content having relevant news to a geo-spatially meta-tagged community at a predefined frequency; a writing tools module to enable at least some of users of a geospatial environment to elect stories they wish to write articles on; and a distribution module to automatically distribute to the user generated content to a members of a group associated with a target demographic associated with the user generated content by associating a meta-data associated with members of the group with a physical postal address and automatically generating a community publication to distribute to the group. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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