SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING MICRO-SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20140222932A1
• Filed: 12/20/2013
• Published: 08/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Social Order, LLC
• Original Assignee: Social Order, LLC
• Inventors: Trummer, Marcus, Beard, Patrick, Johnson, Mike
• Application Number:
  US14/137,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20140222932A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1813 for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1831 Tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or behavior, network status
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A system for generating micro-social environments comprising: a database including a first feature set, the feature set including a first action; a system controller coupled to the database and configured to establish a first location element associated with a first physical location and associate the first feature set with the first location element; and a first user interface configured to couple a first user device with the system controller, the system controller configured to grant the first user interface access to the feature set if the first user device is within the first physical location.

Claims

1. A system for generating micro-social environments comprising:

a database including a first feature set, the feature set including a first action;

a system controller coupled to the database and configured to establish a first location element associated with a first physical location and associate the first feature set with the first location element; and

a first user interface configured to couple a first user device with the system controller, the system controller configured to grant the first user interface access to the feature set if the first user device is within the first physical location.

2. The system, as in claim 1, the first action configured to allow the first user device to perform one of the following actions:

send a text message to the second user;

send a text message to all users within a location;

initiate a financial transaction;

send a predetermined text message to the second user;

send a predetermined audio/video/image file to the second user;

send a set of geographic instructions to the second user;

send a request to the second user requiring a response;

or

view location based predefined users or messages defined by the system.

3. The system, as in claim 1, the system further including a service device coupled to the system controller and configured to process a request, the first user interface configured to initiate the first action selected by a user through the first user device within the first physical location and where the system controller generates and forwards the request to the service device for processing.

4. The system, as in claim 3, the service device further configured to generate a return signal after processing the request from the system controller.

5. The system, as in claim 4, the system controller configured to allow an administrator to modify the number of feature sets based on the return signal.

6. The system, as in claim 4, the system controller configured to allow an administrator to modify the number of actions within the first feature set based on the return signal.

7. The system, as in claim 3, the system further including a display and the service device including a common messaging platform, the system controller configured to output the return signal generated by the service device through the display.

8. A method for generating micro-social environments including a system having a database, the database including a feature set, the feature set including a first action, a system controller, a user interface, and a first user device and comprising the steps of:

coupling the system controller to the database;

establishing the first location element with a first physical location;

associating the first feature set with the first location element;

coupling a first user device with the system controller through the user interface; and

granting the first user device access to the first feature set through the system controller if the first user device is within the first physical location.

9. The method, as in claim 8, wherein the first action configured in performing one of the following actions through the first user device:

sending a text message to the second user;

sending a text message to all users within a location;

initiating a financial transaction;

sending a predetermined text message to the second user;

sending a predetermined audio/video/image file to the second user;

sending a set of geographic instructions to the second user;

sending a request to the second user requiring a response;

or

viewing location based predefined users or messages defined by the system.

10. The method, as in claim 8, the system further including a service device and comprising the steps of:

coupling the service device to the system controller;

initiating an action selected by a user through the first user device; and

generating and forwarding the action to the service device for processing.

11. The method, as in claim 9, further including the step of generating a return signal after processing the action from the system controller.

12. The method, as in claim 10, further including the step of allowing an administrator to modify the number of feature sets based on the return signal.

13. The method, as in claim 10, further including the step of modifying the number of actions within the first feature set based on the return signal.

14. The method, as in claim 9, further including a display and the service device further including a common messaging platform and further including the step of outputting the return signal generated by the service device through the display.

15. A non-transitory information recording medium on which a computer readable program is recorded that causes a computer to function as a system comprising:

a database including a first feature set, the feature set including a first action;

a system controller coupled to the database and configured to establish the first location element with a first physical location and associate the first feature set with the first location element; and

a first user interface configured to couple a first user device with the system controller, the first user device being associated with the first location element; and

the system controller being further configured to allow a user of the first user device access to the first feature set if the first user device is associated with the first location element.