METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF PROXIMITY-RELATED USER GROUPS
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Abstract
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for creating and managing temporary virtual groups. An example apparatus may be configured enable an administrative entity to establish a temporary virtual group, enable the administrative entity to define configuration information for the temporary virtual group, the enabling of the administrative entity to define the configuration information comprising establishing membership criteria for admittance of one or more members to the temporary virtual group, establishing rules of interaction among the one or more members of that the temporary virtual group, establishing termination criteria, the termination criteria configured to determine when the temporary virtual group will terminate, and facilitate transmission of the message from the first member to a second member, and terminate the temporary virtual group upon determination that the termination criteria is met.
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42 Claims
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21. A temporary virtual group management apparatus comprising:
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at least one processor; one or more non-transitory memories comprising computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the location-based virtual group management apparatus to; enable an administrative entity to establish a temporary virtual group, enable the administrative entity to define configuration information for the temporary virtual group, the enabling of the administrative entity to define the configuration information comprising; establishing membership criteria for admittance of one or more members to the temporary virtual group; establishing rules of interaction among the one or more members of that the temporary virtual group; wherein the establishment of the rules of interaction comprises; enabling a first member of the one or more members of the temporary virtual group to broadcast a message to one or more other members of the temporary virtual group, the message comprising content; and establishing termination criteria, the termination criteria configured to determine when the temporary virtual group will terminate; and facilitate, according to the rules of interaction, transmission of the message from the first member of the temporary virtual group to at least one of the one or more other members of the temporary virtual group; and terminate the temporary virtual group upon determination that the termination criteria is met. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A temporary virtual group management computer program product, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instructions comprising program code instructions for:
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enabling an administrative entity to establish a temporary virtual group, enabling the administrative entity to define configuration information for the temporary virtual group, the enabling of the administrative entity to define the configuration information comprising; establishing membership criteria for admittance of one or more members to the temporary virtual group; establishing rules of interaction among the one or more members of that the temporary virtual group; wherein the establishment of the rules of interaction comprises; enabling a first member of the one or more members of the temporary virtual group to broadcast a message to one or more other members of the temporary virtual group, the message comprising content; and establishing termination criteria, the termination criteria configured to determine when the temporary virtual group will terminate; and facilitating, according to the rules of interaction, transmission of the message from the first member of the temporary virtual group to at least one of the one or more other members of the temporary virtual group; and terminating the temporary virtual group upon determination that the termination criteria is met. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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