METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING AN INTELLIGENT COLLABORATIVE CONTENT INFRASTRUCTURE

• US 20140006527A1
• Filed: 12/19/2012
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sara Winter
• Original Assignee: Sara Winter
• Inventors: Winter, Sara
• Application Number:
  US13/720,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20140006527A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

The system of the present invention provides social media platform that enables facilitator or parent to guide one or more users, usually the children, to engage in facilitated social communications. The parent through a facilitator area may post content to a social communication landing page configured for the child or children, and also configure a matching facility, in a manner that is designed to enable social communications in the child or children who have social communication obstacles. The system is operable to monitor actions of the child or children within the social networking environment provided by the social medial platform, including for the purposes of dynamic modification of social networking parameters to continuously build on the comfort level of the child or children in engaging in social communications.

Claims

1. A computer implemented system for enabling social communications involving one or more individual with social communication obstacles comprising:

(a) one or more computers including or being linked to a server computer, the server computer implementing a server application, the server application being in communication with one or more electronic communication devices;

(b) the server application being operable to define a social networking website that defines a facilitator area associated with one or more facilitators, and at least one social communication landing page associated with one or more users, in which the facilitator area enables the placement of content by the one or more facilitators into the social communication landing page, and guidance and monitoring of social communications by the one or more users with one or more other users associated with the social networking website;

(c) the server application further defining a matching utility that is configurable by the one or more facilitators from an electronic communication device so as to define one or more filters for matching the one or more users with one or more other users of the social networking website who may be compatible to elicit social communications with the one or more users.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein server application includes or is linked to a profile manager, wherein the profile manager maintains for each user a profile that includes information based on at least one assessment or diagnosis of the user that is relevant to social communication or user of social networking.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the assessment or diagnosis is based on placing the user on an autism scale.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the system is configured to adapt:

(a) the content;

(b) social networking features or functions;

or

(c) matching functions;

based on monitoring the activities of the one or more users, and applying the rules.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the system permits the one or more facilitators to manage a curated Internet area where the one or more facilitators can post positive messages that instill positive feelings for the one or more users.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the server application implements one or more features that enable the one or more facilitators to post content that is familiar to the one or more users.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the system permits the tuning of matching operations of the matching utility including based on common interests, age, gender, whether the user uses a label for their diagnosis, or whether the user uses the system with a caregiver or independently.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more facilitators may include a therapist.

11. The system of claim 4, wherein the rules include the requirement that certain changes intended by a facilitator, optionally depending on the profile of the user, requires approval by a therapist user of the system.

12. The system of claim 4, wherein the rules are based on validated scientific research for promoting social communication or learning objectives in users.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the system adapts the content or messaging operations to reduce stimuli to avoid over-stimulation or anxiety in the one or more users.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the system:

(a) analyzes the social communications of the one or more users; and

(b) provides one or more reports to the one or more facilitators regarding the social communications of the one or more users.

2. A computer implemented system for promoting social networking communications involving one or more users facing social communication obstacles comprising:

(a) one or more computers including or being linked to a server computer, the server computer executing a server application, the server application being in communication with one or more electronic communication devices;

(b) the server application defining one or more social networking Internet sites (“

social networking site”

) that include a facilitator area accessible to the one or more facilitators, wherein the server application;

(i) enables the one or more facilitators to place content for the one or more users in a social communication landing page

(ii) enables the one or more facilitators, using a matching utility, to manage the matching of the one or more users to a set of other users with whom the one or more users may be compatible for engaging in social communications (“

matched users”

); and

(iii) enables the one or more facilitators to monitor activities of the one or more users through the social networking site, and if it is determined that this is advisable, guide the engagement of the one or more users with the matched users, using social networking communications;

wherein the server application permits the one or more facilitators to provide a facilitated social networking experience to the one or more users.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the system implements one or more rules for promoting objectives regarding social networking communications (including increased comfort levels with social networking communications), dependent on the assessment or diagnosis for the one or more users.

15. A computer implemented method of promoting social networking communications of one or more users who face social communication obstacles comprising:

(a) one or more facilitators using a server application to configure for the one or more users one or more social networking Internet sites (“

social networking site”

);

(b) the one or more facilitators placing content for the one or more users in a social communication landing page;

(c) the one or more facilitators using a matching utility to match the one or more users to a set of other users with whom the one or more users may be compatible for engaging in social communications (“

matched users”

), where the matched users consist of a finite group of users to avoid overwhelming the one or more users; and

(d) monitoring the activities of the one or more users through the social networking site, and if it is determined that this is advisable, guiding the engagement of the one or more users with the matched users, using social networking communications, so as to provide a facilitated social networking experience to the one or more users that promotes social communication or learning objectives.