SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEEPENING GROUP BONDS BY GRANTING ACCESS TO A DATA STRUCTURE

• US 20090012961A1
• Filed: 06/27/2008
• Published: 01/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Balaya LLC
• Original Assignee: Balaya LLC
• Inventors: Nunnally, John Robert JR., Bramson, Ian Gerald
• Application Number:
  US12/163,811
• Publication Number:
  US 20090012961A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A method having the steps of granting, to a first client, access to a data structure; granting, to a second client, access to the data structure; transmitting, if the first client has caused a write operation on the data structure, a communication to the second client; and transmitting, if the second client has caused a write operation on the data structure, a communication to the first client. There is also provided a system, having a processor, that carries out the method. A method for strengthening group bonds, having the steps of: instantiating a data store that is dedicated to a predetermined group of users; receiving, into the data store, data generated by a first member of the group; providing an access to the data to a second member of the group; presenting the data to the second member of the group; receiving, from said second member, a communication into said data store; and wherein the communication is transmitted from the data store to the first member.

Claims

1. A method comprising the steps of:

granting, to a first client, access to a data structure;

granting, to a second client, access to said data structure;

transmitting, if said first client has caused a write operation on said data structure, a communication to said second client; and

transmitting, if said second client has caused a write operation on said data structure, a communication to said first client.

2. A method comprising the steps of:

granting, to a first client, read-write access to a first data structure;

granting, to a second client, read access to said first data structure;

granting, to said second client, read-write access to a second data structure;

granting, to said first client, read access to said second data structure;

transmitting, if said first client has caused a write operation on said first data structure, a communication to said second client; and

transmitting, if said second client has caused a write operation on said second data structure, a communication to said first client.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the steps of:

granting, to a third client, read access to said first and said second data structures;

transmitting, if said first client has caused a write operation on said first data structure, a communication to said third client; and

transmitting, if said second client has caused a write operation on said second data structure, a communication to said third client.

4. A system comprising:

a first client device;

a processor;

a memory;

wherein;

said processor is in communication with said memory;

said first client has a user interface that is a ticker;

said first client device is in communication with said processor via a communication network;

said processor instantiates a data store in said memory comprising a first data structure and a second data structure;

5. The system of claim 4 wherein said ticker:

is customizable to a preference of a user thereof;

presents to said user data that are resident in said data store;

presents data to said user according to characteristics of said data;

6. The system of claim 4 wherein said ticker further comprises:

a portal to a software module that permits a user of said client device to interact with data resident in said data store.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein said portal:

permits said user to interact with data resident in a data store that is a second data store.

8. The system of claim 4 wherein:

said first client device is at least one communication device selected from the group consisting of;

a PDA, a general-purpose computer;

a special-purpose computer, and a mobile communication device.

9. The system of claim 4, further comprising:

a second client device that is in communication with said processor.

10. The system of claim 4, further comprising:

a module resident in said memory, wherein;

said module, when executed by said processor, provides an access on said data store to said first client.

11. A method for strengthening group bonds, comprising the steps of:

instantiating a data store that is dedicated to a predetermined group of users;

receiving, into said data store, data generated by a first member of said group;

providing an access to said data to a second member of said group; and

presenting said data to said second member of said group.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein:

said step of presenting is modified according to a characteristic of said second member selected from the group consisting of;

user skill, user identity, and user age.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising the step of:

receiving, from said second member, a communication into said data store;

wherein said communication is transmitted from said data store to said first member.

14. A storage medium having an instruction encoded thereon in machine-readable format, wherein said instruction, when executed by a processor, causes said processor to carry out a method having the steps of:

granting, to a first client, read-write access to a first data structure;

granting, to a second client, read access to said first data structure;

granting, to said second client, read-write access to a second data structure;

granting, to said first client, read access to said second data structure;

transmitting a communication to said second client, when said first client has caused a write operation on said first data structure;

transmitting a communication to said first client, when said second client has caused a write operation on said second data structure.