Youth communities in a geo-spatial environment

• US 20080228775A1
• Filed: 03/15/2007
• Published: 09/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fatdoor Incorporated
• Inventors: Abhyanker, Raj Vasant, Harris, William H.
• Application Number:
  US11/724,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20080228775A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/20 Education
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles

Abstract

A method, apparatus and system of youth communities in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a set of user profiles above a general mapping environment, determining that one of the set of user profiles in a guardian profile through a verification technique, creating a dependent profile in a youth mapping environment when a guardian user associated with the guardian profile elects to allow a dependent user to create the dependent profile in the youth mapping environment, restricting access of the dependent user in the youth mapping environment based on a set of permissions granted by the guardian user and simultaneously visualizing the dependent profile based on a location data associated with the dependent profile along with adjacent dependent profiles having adjacent location data to the location data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

generating a set of user profiles above a general mapping environment;

determining that one of the set of user profiles is a guardian profile through a verification technique;

creating a dependent profile in a youth mapping environment when a guardian user associated with the guardian profile elects to allow a dependent user to create the dependent profile in the youth mapping environment;

restricting access of the dependent user in the youth mapping environment based on a set of permissions granted by the guardian user; and

simultaneously visualizing the dependent profile based on a location data associated with the dependent profile along with adjacent dependent profiles having adjacent location data to the location data.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the youth mapping environment does not have profiles found in the general mapping environment and is restricted to including profiles of youth.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the youth are under eighteen-years of age.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising providing access of the dependent user to only other profiles in the youth mapping environment that correspond to an age group of the dependent user.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising geo-fencing search criteria of the dependent users in the youth mapping environment when the guardian user associated with the guardian profile elects a geographic region acceptable of search by the dependent user.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising decorating the dependent profile when the dependent user selects a color scheme, an avatar style, a wallpaper, a furniture, a garden, and accessories to express the dependent profile in the youth mapping environment.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising exchanging communications with other users of the youth mapping environment based on a set of permissions afforded by the guardian user in the general mapping environment.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising monitoring communications, activities, friends, and experiences of the dependent user in the youth mapping environment through an information module that provides aggregate experience data to the guardian user of activity of the dependent user in the youth mapping environment.

9. The method of claim 8 comprising creating friendship, education, and social groups between the dependent user and other dependent users in the youth mapping environment.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

providing a learning interface to the dependent user in the youth mapping environment when at least one of the guardian user and the dependent user elect one of an approved teaching mentor in the youth mapping environment;

exchanging between the dependent user and other dependent users in the youth mapping environment collectibles, trading cards, toys, and activities based on a currency utilizable in the youth mapping environment; and

qualifying teaching mentors in the youth mapping environment through a voting of other guardian users in the general mapping environment.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing tools to the guardian user in the general mapping environment to exchange babysitting, parenting, commuting, volunteering and item exchanging opportunities with other guardian users of the general mapping environment.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising enabling the guardian user to form a trust circle with other guardian users of the general mapping environment so as to enable the youth users associated with the guardian users to freely communicate and exchange items with other users associated with guardians in the trust circle.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising

organizing, through the trust circle, activities, recreational sports, music groups, dance groups, classes, tutoring sessions, and sports leagues in the youth mapping environment;

and

scheduling a reservation in a community location in a neighborhood through at least one of the general mapping environment and the youth mapping environment.

14. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

transforming at least one of the general mapping environment and the youth mapping environment to a wiki environment in which users can create and add content to profiles of others through a wiki interface until the profiles are claimed by a claimant; and

simultaneously visualizing in the general mapping environment and the youth mapping environment profiles of neighboring addresses through a three-dimensional perspective view of a neighborhood.

15. The method of claim 1 in a form of a machine-readable medium embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the method of claim 1

16. A system, comprising:

a network;

a youth mapping environment to generate profiles of minors in a neighborhood and to include only minors who have been verified as permitted as participants in the youth mapping environment;

a general mapping environment coupled to the youth mapping environment to enable parents to create access privileges of their minor children in the youth mapping environment; and

a central module to enable the parents to form sharing groups with other parents in the general mapping environment, and to provide an interface such that the parents can monitor activities of their children in the youth mapping environment and to segregate users of the youth mapping environment from users of the general mapping environment.

17. The system of claim 16 further comprising a security module of the central module to ensure that identity of the parents is verified prior to the parents creating access privileges of their minor children in the youth mapping environment.

18. The system of claim 16 further comprising an activity module of the central module to arrange and reserve parks, halls, and restaurants for sharing groups in the general mapping environment and to automatically send invites to dependent users in the youth mapping environment when an arranged activity involves scheduling of children'"'"'s recreational, educational, and social activities.

19. A method comprising:

creating a dependent social network having a set of users who have been verified to be dependents of guardian users of a parent social network, and in which user profiles in the parent social network are not visible to users of the dependent social network, and in which profile of the dependent social network are not visible to users of the parent social network except for a particular guardian user overseeing a particular dependent user;

forming groups among the set of users such that the particular dependent user is a member of a particular group after being approved by the particular guardian user in the parent social network;

restricting access to certain users in the dependent social network by the particular dependent user based on a preference of the particular guardian user; and

generating neighboring ones of the particular dependent users of the dependent social network such that users of the dependent social network are able to visualize neighbors living in close proximity and are able to exchange communications between them through at least one of a postal mail communication and an electronic communication.

20. The method of claim 19 further comprising forming affinity groups between users of the dependent social network such that users of the dependent social network, barter, communicate and learn between each other.