Web based interactive meeting facility
First Claim
1. A computer program product embodied in a computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computers, helps organize an in-person gathering of users of topic-related interest by performing the steps of:
- providing meeting management resources through a meeting facility, wherein the meeting management resources enable a meeting group organizer to manage a meeting group, and wherein the meeting management resources enable a meeting group organizer to provide voting options for users to vote on at least one of the following;
meeting venue, meeting agenda, meeting activity, meeting time, meeting date, or any combination thereof;
receiving meeting group criteria from a user;
providing to the user an indication of at least one meeting group of a plurality of meeting groups based on the user'"'"'s received meeting group criteria, wherein the meeting groups have respective members;
receiving from the user a selection of a meeting group to join; and
enabling the organizer to accept the user as a new member to the meeting group and to manage meeting group user resources available to the user through a web-based graphical interface provided by the meeting facility.
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Abstract
A computer program product helps organize an in-person gathering of users of topic-related interest to help maintain ongoing local interest groups by providing meeting management resources through a web-based meeting facility, where the meeting management resources may enable a meeting group organizer to manage a meeting group. The meeting facility may receive meeting group criteria from a user, and may provide to the user an indication of at least one meeting group of a plurality of meeting groups based on the user'"'"'s received meeting group criteria, wherein the meeting groups may have respective members. The meeting facility may receive from the user a selection of a meeting group to join, and the organizer may be enabled to accept the user as a new member to the meeting group and to manage meeting group user resources available to the user through a web-based graphical interface provided by the meeting facility.
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29 Claims
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1. A computer program product embodied in a computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computers, helps organize an in-person gathering of users of topic-related interest by performing the steps of:
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providing meeting management resources through a meeting facility, wherein the meeting management resources enable a meeting group organizer to manage a meeting group, and wherein the meeting management resources enable a meeting group organizer to provide voting options for users to vote on at least one of the following;
meeting venue, meeting agenda, meeting activity, meeting time, meeting date, or any combination thereof;receiving meeting group criteria from a user; providing to the user an indication of at least one meeting group of a plurality of meeting groups based on the user'"'"'s received meeting group criteria, wherein the meeting groups have respective members; receiving from the user a selection of a meeting group to join; and enabling the organizer to accept the user as a new member to the meeting group and to manage meeting group user resources available to the user through a web-based graphical interface provided by the meeting facility. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A computer program product embodied in a computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computers, helps organize an in-person gathering of users of topic-related interest by performing the steps of:
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providing a web-based meeting facility to a plurality of users, wherein each of the plurality of users choose to join at least one of a plurality of meeting groups based on topic-related interest and geographic locale; enabling at least one user-organizer to maintain control of organizing meetings with the at least one of the plurality of meeting groups, wherein the at least one of the plurality of meeting groups is made up of a subset of the plurality of users; and providing organizational facilities to the user-organizer through the web-based meeting facility for creating and facilitating activities of the at least one of the plurality of meeting groups, wherein one of the organizational facilities is scheduling meetings, and wherein the organizational facilities enable the user-organizer to provide voting options for users to vote on at least one of the following;
meeting venue, meeting agenda, meeting activity, meeting time, meeting date, or any combination thereof.
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Current AssigneeMeetup Incorporated (SoftBank Group Corp.)
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Original AssigneeMeetup Incorporated (SoftBank Group Corp.)
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InventorsWhalin, Gregory P., Heiferman, Scott, Meeker, Matt, Kamali, Peter
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Primary Examiner(s)OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P
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Application NumberUS12/482,084Publication NumberTime in Patent Office1,322 DaysField of SearchNoneUS Class Current705/1.1CPC Class CodesG06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human...G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calen...
