METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR PROVIDING A RECOGNITION AWARD

• US 20100121926A1
• Filed: 11/13/2008
• Published: 05/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mythanx LLC
• Original Assignee: Mythanx LLC
• Inventors: Catalano, Christopher J.
• Application Number:
  US12/270,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20100121926A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0239 Online discounts or incentives

Abstract

A method and apparatus to provide a recognition award, having steps of creating a computer communication to one of a group and an organization, querying a group to enter an additional message to the one of the group and the organization, compiling the additional messages from the members of the group and the computer communication into a personalized message, and sending the personalized message to the one of the group and the organization.

Claims

1. A method to provide a recognition award, comprising:

creating a computer based communication to one of a group and an organization on a computer server;

querying an additional group to enter an additional message to the communication to the one of the group and the organization;

compiling the additional messages from the members of the additional group and the communication into a personalized message; and

sending the personalized message to the one of the group and the organization, to an account on the server wherein the personalized message is the recognition award and wherein at least one of a physical social expression card, a greeting card and a physical object having a unique computer server access code is provided to the one of the group and the organization wherein upon entry of the unique computer access code on a computer linked to the server, the one of the group and the organization attains access to the personalized message on the server.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the personalized message is stored on a server with a dynamic memory.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the physical social expression card contains an economic gift.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein one of the personalized message, the communication and the additional messages is a personalized computer email.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein one of the personalized message, the communication and the additional messages has a video component.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one of the personalized message, the communication and the additional messages has an audio component.

7. The method according to claim 4, wherein the social expression card is an economic gift to accompany the at least one of the communication, the additional message to the one of the group and the organization and the personalized message, wherein the economic gift is obtained from a pool of funds.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the social expression card is an economic gift to accompany the at least one of the communication, the additional message to the one of the group and the organization and the personalized message.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the social expression card is an economic gift to accompany the at least one of the computer communication, the additional message to the one of the group and the organization and the personalized message.

10. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to provide a recognition award, comprising:

creating a computer based communication to one of a group and an organization on a computer server;

querying an additional group to enter an additional message to the communication to the one of the group and the organization;

compiling the additional messages from the members of the additional group and the communication into a personalized message; and

sending the personalized message to the one of the group and the organization, to an account on the server wherein the personalized message is the recognition award and wherein at least one of a physical social expression card, a greeting card and a physical object having a unique computer server access code is provided to the one of the group and the organization wherein upon entry of the unique computer access code on a computer linked to the server, the one of the group and the organization attains access to the personalized message on the server.

11. The program storage device according to claim 10, wherein the communication is stored on a server.

12. The program storage device according to claim 10, wherein the method accomplished further comprises:

attaching an economic gift to at least one of the computer communication, the additional message to the one of the group and the organization and the personalized message.

13. The program storage device according to claim 10, wherein one of the personalized message, the computer communication and the additional messages is a personalized computer email.

14. The program storage device according to claim 10, wherein the one of the personalized message, the computer communication and the additional messages has a video component.

15. The program storage device according to claim 10, wherein the one of the personalized message, the computer communication and the additional messages has an audio component.

16. The program storage device according to claim 13, wherein the method accomplished further comprises:

attaching an economic gift to at least one of the computer communication, the additional message to the one of the group and the organization and the personalized message.

17. The program storage device according to claim 14, wherein the method accomplished further comprises:

attaching an economic gift to at least one of the computer communication, the additional message to the one of the group and the organization and the personalized message.

18. The program storage device according to claim 15, wherein the method accomplished further comprises:

attaching an economic gift to at least one of the computer communication, the additional message to the one of the group and the organization and the personalized message.