Community awareness management systems and methods

• US 8,046,310 B2
• Filed: 08/02/2007
• Issued: 10/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CeleritasWorks, LLC (RGS Senior Management Group, LC)
• Original Assignee: CeleritasWorks, LLC (RGS Senior Management Group, LC)
• Inventors: Evans, Scott A., Lester, Brett A., Marshall, Robert L., Miley, Larry D.
• Primary Examiner(s): VAN BRAMER, JOHN W
• Application Number:
  US11/833,108
• Publication Number:
  US 20080027745A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,545 Days
• Field of Search: 705/14, 705/344, 707/756
• US Class Current: 705/344
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0205 Location or geographical consideration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/205 Education administration or guidance

Abstract

A system and method links one or more disparate community awareness management (CAM) datasets for a community awareness program (CAP) with one or more spatial layers to create linked CAM datasets. One or more data attributes common to a CAM dataset and a spatial layer are identified, and the link is defined between the CAM dataset and the spatial layer. The spatial layer and the linked CAM dataset then may be queried using a single input query. Features from the spatial layer and features from the linked CAM dataset that match the query are generated for display. In one embodiment, a system and method manage CAP assets, transactions, interest areas for the CAP, and buffer areas for the CAP. An audience utility enables entering and maintaining audience data for the CAP. A journal utility enables making journal entries for one or more audience members, CAP assets, transactions, and/or other CAM data. A link document utility enables linking one or more documents to CAM data.

Claims

1. A system for managing community awareness data for a pipeline community awareness program (CAP), the pipeline CAP providing information associated with at least one pipeline asset for the pipeline CAP to at least one contact for the pipeline CAP, the system comprising:

at least one processor;

a data management system executing on the at least one processor comprising;

community awareness management (CAM) data, the CAM data comprising pipeline asset data for at least one pipeline asset and audience data for the at least one contact for the pipeline CAP to which at least some of the information associated with the at least one pipeline asset is provided; and

geospatial data for an area for the pipeline CAP;

a spatial management system executing on the at least one processor, generating at least one query for the CAM data and the geospatial data to the data management system, receiving selected CAM data and selected geospatial data from the data management system in response to the at least one query, and generating map data based on the selected geospatial data and at least some selected CAM data, the map data identifying at least a portion of the area for the pipeline CAP, the at least one contact within the pipeline CAP area portion to which the at least some information associated with the at least one pipeline asset is provided, and at least one member of a group consisting of at least one pipeline asset portion within the pipeline CAP area portion, at least one interest area portion for the at least one pipeline asset within the pipeline CAP area portion, and at least one buffer area portion for the at least one pipeline asset within the pipeline CAP area portion;

a program management system executing on the at least one processor, receiving an input, initiating the at least one query to the spatial management system based on the input, receiving the map data and the selected CAM data from the spatial management system, and generating at least one result of the query, the at least one result comprising the map data and the selected CAM data, the selected CAM data comprising at least one second member of a second group consisting of at least some of the pipeline asset data for the at least one pipeline asset and at least some of the audience data for the at least one contact to which the at least some information associated with the at least one pipeline asset is provided;

a journal management system configured to manage at least one journal entry for at least one third member of a third group consisting of the at least one contact and the at least one pipeline asset; and

a user interface receiving the input, transmitting the input to the program management system, receiving the at least one result from the program management system, and generating the at least one result for display.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the journal management system enables entry of at least one new journal entry identifying at least one communication for the at least one third member and editing at least one fourth member of a fourth group consisting of the at least one journal entry and the at least one new journal entry.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the journal management system automatically generates the at least one journal entry when the at least one contact is added or modified, the at least one journal entry identifying at least one fourth member of a fourth group consisting of an action taken, a user that made the action, and a date the action was taken.