Community-based community project content creation system and method

• US 20090070128A1
• Filed: 09/11/2007
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Author Solutions, LLC
• Original Assignee: Author Solutions Inc.
• Inventors: Geib-Rosch, Jacob Leon, Cram, Benjamin Wm., Powell, Sandra, Williamson, Nathan Paul, Kratz, Kenneth J., McCauley, David Bruce, Stanley, James Thomas, Yates, Christopher Lawrence
• Application Number:
  US11/900,481
• Publication Number:
  US 20090070128A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2117 User registration
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A method and system of community-based project content creation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating user profiles, associating first user with a first user profile, generating project profiles, each project profile associated with at least one user profile, associating the first user with a first project profile, designating a privilege level associated with a second user profile, and generating as online project collaboration between the first project profile and the second user profile based on the privilege level. The method may also include generating community building activities. The method may also include personalizing the first user profile. The method may further include generating a search associated with the user profiles and/or the project profiles. In addition, the method may include generating a post-publishing activity associated.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

generating user profiles;

associating a first user with a first user profile of the user profiles;

generating project profiles, each project profile of the project profiles associated with at least one user profile of the user profiles;

associating the first user with a first project profile of the project profiles;

designating a privilege level associated with a second user profile of the user profiles; and

generating an online project collaboration between the first project profile of the project profiles and the second user profile of the user profiles based on the privilege level.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the online project collaboration comprises at least one of:

contributing material to a first project associated with the first project profile;

editing at least a portion of the first project associated with the first project profile;

displaying at least a portion of the first project according to a predetermined structure;

locking at least a portion of the first project associated with the first project profile;

tracking information associated with the contributed material;

controlling revisions to the first project;

a discussion associated with at least one of a user profile of the user profiles and a project profile of the project profiles;

generating a forum to display comments associated with the user profiles and the project profiles;

messaging associated with at least a portion of the user profiles;

managing the online project collaboration;

managing partner-related activities; and

chatting associated with at least a portion of the user profiles.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the at least a portion of the first project comprises a section, a chapter, cited material, and quoted material.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the controlling revisions to the first project comprises:

archiving at least one version of the first project;

displaying at least two versions of the first project;

identifying differences between the at least two versions of the first project; and

generating a previous version of the first project by reversing edits to a current version of the first project.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the first project is associated with at least one of a book, a magazine, audio books, an advertising copy, a screenplay, a periodical, music, video, and a music sound file.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating community building activities.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the generating community building activities comprises:

generating tags associated with interest categories;

generating topics associated with the project profiles;

rating a project associated with a project profile;

generating feedback related to a user associated with a user profile; and

generating feedback related to a project associated with a project profile.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising personalizing the first user profile of the user profiles.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the personalizing the first user profile of the user profiles comprises at least one of:

associating at least one user profile of the user profiles with the first user profile of the user profiles to create a friends network;

blocking at least one user profile of the user profiles;

generating a list of favorite projects, each favorite project associated with a corresponding project profile of the project profiles;

managing colors and font styles of the community environment; and

controlling a location of a navigational item associated with at least one of the first user profile of the user profiles and the first project profile of the project profiles.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a search associated with at least one of the user profiles and the project profiles.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the generating a search comprises:

searching tags associated with interest categories;

searching at least a portion of the user profiles and at least a portion of the project profiles in full text mode; and

searching the project profiles based on at least one of a topic and a genre.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the privilege level comprises at least one of role-based privilege levels, project-based privilege level, and profile-based privilege level.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the role-based privilege levels comprises at least one of a reader level, a contributor level, an editor level, and a coeditor level.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the project-based privilege level comprises at least one of a public level, a private level, and a prohibited content level.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the profile-based privilege level comprises a prohibited user profile level.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a post-publishing activity associated with a second project profile of the project profiles.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the generating post-publishing activity comprises at least one of:

generating a price related to a second project associated with the second project profile of the project profiles;

determining marketing preferences associated with the second project;

generating customized author pages associated with the second project;

generating orders associated with the second project;

managing royalties associated with the second project;

managing sales activities associated with the second project;

tracking a status associated with the second project;

generating at least one of an alert and a notification associated with the second project;

generating at least one website to promote the second project; and

generating a communication associated with the second project.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the online project collaboration comprises interacting via a wiki.

19. 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.

20. A system, comprising:

a community environment;

a community network module of the community environment, the community network module to include user profiles and project profiles, each project profile of the project profiles associated with at least one user profile of the user profiles and a project;

a privilege level module of the community environment to designate at least one privilege level associated with at least one of a first project profile associated with a first user profile of the user profiles to a second user profile of the user profiles; and

an online project collaboration module of the community environment to generate an online project collaboration between a first project of the project profiles and the second user profile of the user profiles.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the privilege level module comprises at least one of:

a role-based module of the community environment to designate role-based privilege levels comprising at least one of a reader level, a contributor level, an editor level, and a coeditor level;

a project-based module of the community environment to designate a project-based privilege level comprising at least one of a public level, a private level and a prohibited content level; and

a profile-based module to designate a profile-based privilege level comprising a prohibited user profile level.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein the online project collaboration module comprises at least one of:

a contribution module of the community environment to contribute material to a first project associated with the first project profile;

an edit module of the community environment to edit at least a portion of the first project associated with the first project profile;

a display module of the community environment to display at least a portion of the first project according to a predetermined structure;

a lock module of the community environment to lock at least a portion of the first project associated with the first project profile;

a track module of the community environment to track information associated with the contributed material;

a revision control module of the community environment to control revisions to the first project;

a discussion module of the community environment to enable a discussion associated with at least one of a user profile of the user profiles and a project profile of the project profiles;

a forum module of the community environment to generate a forum to display comments associated with the user profiles and the project profiles;

a messaging module of the community environment to enable messaging associated with at least a portion of the user profiles;

an administration module to manage the online project collaboration;

a partnership module to manage partner-related activities; and

a chat module of the community environment to enable chatting associated with at least a portion of the user profiles.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the revision control module comprises at least one of:

an archive module of the community environment to archive at least one version of the first project;

a comparison module of the community environment to display at least two versions of the first project and to identify differences between the at least two versions; and

an undo edits module of the community environment to generate a previous version of the first project by reversing edits to a current version of the first project;

24. The system of claim 20, further comprising at least one of:

a community building module of the community environment to generate community building activities;

a user profile module of the community environment to generate personalized user profiles;

a search module of the community environment to generate a search associated with at least one of the user profiles and the project profiles; and

a post-publishing module of the community environment to generate post-publishing activities.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the community building module comprises at least one of:

a tag module of the community environment to generate tags associated with interest categories;

a topics module of the community environment to generate topics associated with the project profiles;

a project rating module of the community environment to rate a project associated with a project profile;

a user feedback module of the community environment to generate feedback related to a user associated with a user profile of the user profiles; and

a project feedback module of the community environment to generate feedback related to a project associated with a project profile of the project profiles.

26. The system of claim 24, wherein the user profile module comprises at least one of:

a friends network module of the community environment to associate at least one user profile of the user profiles with the first user profile of the user profiles;

a blocked user profile module of the community environment to block at least one user profile of the user profiles;

a favorite projects module of the community environment to generate a list of favorite projects, each favorite project associated with a corresponding project profile of the project profiles;

a customize interface module of the community environment to manage colors and font styles of at least a portion of the community environment; and

a navigation module of the community environment to control a location of a navigational item associated with at least one of a user profile of the user profiles and a project profile of the project profiles.

27. The system of claim 24, wherein the search module comprises at least one of:

a search tags module of the community environment to search tags associated with interest categories;

a search full text module of the community environment to search at least a portion of the user profiles and at least a portion of the project profiles in full text mode; and

a search topics module of the community environment to search the project profiles based on at least one of a topic and a genre.

28. The system of claim 24, wherein the post-publishing module comprises at least one of:

a pricing module of the community environment to generate a price related to a second project associated with a second project profile of the project profiles;

a marketing module of the community environment to determine marketing preferences associated with the second project;

an author pages module of the community environment to generate customized author pages associated with the second project;

an ordering module of the community environment to generate orders associated with the second project;

a royalties module of the community environment to manage royalties associated with the second project;

a sales activities module of the community environment to manage sales activities associated with the second project;

a tracking module of the community environment to track a status associated with the second project;

an alerts module of the community environment to generate at least one of an alert and a notification associated with the second project;

a website module of the community environment to generate at least one website to promote the second project; and

a communication module of the community environment to generate a communication associated with the second project.

29. The system of claim 20, wherein the project comprises at least one of a book, a magazine, audio books, an advertising copy, a screenplay, a periodical, music, video, and a music sound file.

30. The system of claim 29, wherein the book comprises at least one of a section, a chapter, cited material, and quoted material.

31. The system of claim 20, wherein the online project collaboration comprises interacting via a wiki.

32. A community environment, comprising:

a first instruction set to enable a community network, to include a user database to include user profiles and a project database to include project profiles, each project profile associated with at least one user profile of the user profiles and a project;

a second instruction set integrated with the first instruction set to generate privilege levels associated with the user profiles and the project profiles; and

a third instruction set integrated with the first instruction set and the second instruction set to generate an online collaboration between a user profile of the user profiles and a project of a project profile of the project profiles.

33. The community environment of claim 32, further comprising:

a fourth instruction set integrated with the first instruction set and the second instruction set and the third instruction set to generate a display associated with at least one of the online collaboration, the user profile of the user profiles, the project profile of the project profiles and the project.