Offline Names Addressing Online Community Web Pages
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Abstract
Avoidance criteria are obtained and used to help prevent offline encounters between members of an online community by limiting online communications between members who share some aspect of offline life, thereby reducing the risk of offline encounters that could otherwise arise from online interaction. For each member of the online community, a system provider obtains one or more avoidance criteria ratified by the member and associates them with the member. Avoidance criteria include aspects of the member'"'"'s offline life, such as geographic regions in which the member resides or plans to travel, organizations in which the member is active, and other interests and activities of the member. Respective avoidance criteria of different members are compared to determine whether the members share at least one avoidance criterion. Online communication between members who share an avoidance criterion is automatically limited.
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44 Claims
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25. A computerized method for use by an online service provider for online identity management, the method comprising:
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a computer system reading a user'"'"'s offline identity information from secure storage; the computer system automatically generating from the user'"'"'s offline identity information a proposed web address which includes at least a portion of the user'"'"'s offline identity information; and the computer system displaying the proposed web address to the user. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A computerized method for use by an online service provider for online identity management, the method comprising:
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a computer system reading a user'"'"'s offline name from offline identity information located in a secure storage; the computer system automatically generating a web address which includes at least a portion of the user'"'"'s offline name; and the computer system managing access to a web page in an online community using the generated web address. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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