Online Systems and Methods for Advancing Information Organization Sharing and Collective Action
First Claim
1. A graphical user interface for a wireless mobile device having a gesture sensitive display through which the user interacts with the interface and further having the capability to wirelessly communicate via a remote host computer system with other mobile devices with like interfaces for enabling those mobile device users authorized to participate in the system to create, to join by acceptance of an electronic invitation received from another mobile device, to organize, to manage and to separately communicate with a multiplicity of affinity groups, said interface comprising:
- (a) a scrollable home screen for visually displaying to the user in separate gesture sensitive blocks the individual names of those affinity groups the user created and those the user joined and at least a portion of the most recent message received in each of said affinity groups;
(b) a gesture sensitive icon on the home screen for opening an affinity group creation screen to enable the user to create and to assign a name to a new affinity group and to specify other mobile device users to whom to send electronic invitations to join the new affinity group;
(c) the interface being responsive to the user creating a new affinity group for adding to the home screen a new gesture sensitive block visually displaying the name of the newly created affinity group;
(d) the interface displaying on the home screen an invitation icon indicating that the user has received an unanswered invitation to join an affinity group;
(e) the invitation icon on the home screen being gesture sensitive for opening an invitation reply screen to provide the user predetermined information about said invitation including its affinity group name and for enabling the user to accept said invitation;
(f) the interface being responsive to the user accepting said invitation on the invitation reply screen for adding to the home screen a new gesture sensitive block visually displaying the name of the newly joined affinity group; and
(g) the affinity group identifier blocks on the home screen being individually gesture sensitive to open respective affinity group message screens for viewing messages electronically received by the user from others in said affinity groups and for enabling the user to prepare messages for electronic transmission to others within said affinity groups.
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Abstract
Methods and systems and mobile device interfaces for creating, joining, organizing and managing via mobile devices affinity groups in a cloud computing environment for social and business purposes.
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20 Claims
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1. A graphical user interface for a wireless mobile device having a gesture sensitive display through which the user interacts with the interface and further having the capability to wirelessly communicate via a remote host computer system with other mobile devices with like interfaces for enabling those mobile device users authorized to participate in the system to create, to join by acceptance of an electronic invitation received from another mobile device, to organize, to manage and to separately communicate with a multiplicity of affinity groups, said interface comprising:
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(a) a scrollable home screen for visually displaying to the user in separate gesture sensitive blocks the individual names of those affinity groups the user created and those the user joined and at least a portion of the most recent message received in each of said affinity groups; (b) a gesture sensitive icon on the home screen for opening an affinity group creation screen to enable the user to create and to assign a name to a new affinity group and to specify other mobile device users to whom to send electronic invitations to join the new affinity group; (c) the interface being responsive to the user creating a new affinity group for adding to the home screen a new gesture sensitive block visually displaying the name of the newly created affinity group; (d) the interface displaying on the home screen an invitation icon indicating that the user has received an unanswered invitation to join an affinity group; (e) the invitation icon on the home screen being gesture sensitive for opening an invitation reply screen to provide the user predetermined information about said invitation including its affinity group name and for enabling the user to accept said invitation; (f) the interface being responsive to the user accepting said invitation on the invitation reply screen for adding to the home screen a new gesture sensitive block visually displaying the name of the newly joined affinity group; and (g) the affinity group identifier blocks on the home screen being individually gesture sensitive to open respective affinity group message screens for viewing messages electronically received by the user from others in said affinity groups and for enabling the user to prepare messages for electronic transmission to others within said affinity groups. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A graphical user interface for a wireless mobile device having a gesture sensitive display through which the user interacts with the interface and further having the capability to wirelessly communicate via a remote host computer system with other mobile devices with like interfaces for enabling mobile device users permissioned to participate in the system to create, to join by acceptance of an electronic invitation received from another mobile device and to separately communicate with a multiplicity of affinity groups, said interface comprising:
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(a) a profile screen for enabling a user to specify personal profile information for display to other affinity group members and including information related to the permissioning of the user to participate in said system; (b) a scrollable home screen for displaying in separate gesture sensitive blocks the names of the affinity groups created by and joined by the user; (c) an affinity group creation screen for enabling the device user to name and to describe a new affinity group and to specify other of said mobile device users to whom to send electronic invitations to join the new affinity group; (d) the interface providing the user notice of invitations electronically received from other device users to join an affinity group; (e) the interface successively adding to the home screen separate, new gesture sensitive blocks bearing the new affinity group name each time the user either creates or joins a new affinity group; (f) the interface including a priority message screen for (i) displaying only user designated ones of the affinity groups displayed on the home screen and only when new messages are received for the designated affinity group, (ii) enabling the user to access said new messages, and (iii) enabling the user to remove by gesture sensitive action a designated affinity group from the priority message screen, the removed group again appearing on the priority message screen only when a next new message is received for said designated affinity group; and (g) gesture sensitive screen icons for enabling the user to navigate between said profile, creation, home, message and priority message screens.
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20. In a host computer system for enabling, storing and processing word messages from and among mobile devices, the method comprising:
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(a) electronically receiving requests from mobile device users to create user named affinity groups and to electronically send invitations to specified mobile devices to join the affinity groups; (b) acting on said requests by transmitting the invitations to the specified mobile devices and linking to each of said user created affinity groups only those specified mobile devices that electronically accept said invitations; (c) enabling the electronic communication of word messages between mobile devices linked as affinity groups and storing said messages in said system; (d) electronically receiving requests from sources not in said affinity groups to communicate information to mobile devices based on predetermined keywords; (e) electronically receiving from mobile devices all user selected limitations on receipt of information from said sources; (f) electronically comparing words used in said messages with said keywords and said limitations to identify those mobile devices which qualify for receipt of said information based on use of said keywords in affinity group messages and compliance with said limitations; (g) transmitting said information to the qualifying mobile devices in a form for presentation to the mobile device users separate from said messages and only when affirmatively selected by the mobile device users; and (h) storing in said system data respecting the personal identity of mobile phone users and the identity of mobile devices linked as affinity groups in a manner precluding association of said information with affinity group members and individual mobile device users for protecting the personal privacy of mobile device users and the privacy of affinity group members while disseminating to qualifying mobile devices relevant and desired information from sources outside of said affinity groups.
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