System for managing social group interactions
First Claim
1. A system for managing social group interactions, the system comprising:
- a server that supports creation and management of a plurality of social groups;
a plurality of user devices communicatively coupled to the server that is used by a plurality of users;
the server supporting the registration of each of the plurality of users as members of one or more of the plurality of social groups;
the server saving a list of the plurality of social groups in which the one of the plurality of users is currently a member at the one of the plurality of user devices associated with the one of the plurality of users;
each of the plurality of user devices facilitating local login by one of the plurality of users in order to provide access to message based communication services;
the server facilitating login by the one of the plurality of users via the one of the plurality of user devices, when a local login attempt facilitated by the one of the plurality of user devices fails;
the server facilitating open one-to-many and one-to-one interactions using messages in peer-to-peer type social groups by all members of such social groups; and
the server facilitating controlled one-to-many and one-to-one social interactions by a manager type member using messages while supporting one-to-one social interactions by other types of members using messages in managed group type social groups;
wherein the one of the plurality of user devices retrieves and stores the retrieved list of member references for each of the list of the plurality of social groups in which the one of the plurality of users is currently a member in a removable storage device, in a programmed card or a SIM card, plugged into and communicatively coupled to the one of the plurality of user devices; and
wherein each of the messages and individual response to the messages comprises a textual component, an audio component, a digital image component, a video component, a GPS coordinate component, an IP address component, a sales offer component, an advertisement component, a security information component and an encrypted secure data component.
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Abstract
A system for managing social group interactions comprising a server that supports creation and management of a plurality of social groups and a plurality of user devices communicatively coupled to the server that is used by a plurality of users. The server supports the registration of each of the plurality of users as members of one or more of the plurality of social groups. The server saves a list of the plurality of social groups in which the one of the plurality of users is currently a member at the one of the plurality of user devices associated with the one of the plurality of users. For example, if a user using the user device is associated with a social group (where he is a member), then the server saves a reference and membership details and even a member list in the user device.
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19 Claims
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1. A system for managing social group interactions, the system comprising:
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a server that supports creation and management of a plurality of social groups; a plurality of user devices communicatively coupled to the server that is used by a plurality of users; the server supporting the registration of each of the plurality of users as members of one or more of the plurality of social groups; the server saving a list of the plurality of social groups in which the one of the plurality of users is currently a member at the one of the plurality of user devices associated with the one of the plurality of users; each of the plurality of user devices facilitating local login by one of the plurality of users in order to provide access to message based communication services; the server facilitating login by the one of the plurality of users via the one of the plurality of user devices, when a local login attempt facilitated by the one of the plurality of user devices fails; the server facilitating open one-to-many and one-to-one interactions using messages in peer-to-peer type social groups by all members of such social groups; and the server facilitating controlled one-to-many and one-to-one social interactions by a manager type member using messages while supporting one-to-one social interactions by other types of members using messages in managed group type social groups; wherein the one of the plurality of user devices retrieves and stores the retrieved list of member references for each of the list of the plurality of social groups in which the one of the plurality of users is currently a member in a removable storage device, in a programmed card or a SIM card, plugged into and communicatively coupled to the one of the plurality of user devices; and wherein each of the messages and individual response to the messages comprises a textual component, an audio component, a digital image component, a video component, a GPS coordinate component, an IP address component, a sales offer component, an advertisement component, a security information component and an encrypted secure data component. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A server that supports social group interactions, the server comprising:
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a group membership manager that facilitates creation of a plurality of social groups and the management of the members of the plurality of social groups, wherein each of the plurality of social groups is assigned one or more group managers; a registration manager that manages a member profile for members of the plurality of social groups, wherein the member profile comprises; a contact information; a user type indicating a role, wherein the role comprises an administrative role and a normal user role; a subscription type that is one of a prepaid, postpaid;
a status that is one of active, inactive and closed; anda receiving mode indicating web access, mobile based access to messages; a group interaction manager that manages interaction by members of the plurality of social groups employing their corresponding user devices, wherein the corresponding user devices are communicatively coupled to the server, and wherein each of the plurality of social groups are assigned an associated social group interaction type; the group interaction manager managing one-to-one interactions and one-to-many interactions within each of the plurality of social groups, wherein the interactions comprise sending and receiving messages by the members of the each of the plurality of social groups; the group interaction manager managing creation and dissemination of responses by the recipients of the messages communicated in the one-to-one interactions and the one-to-many interactions within each of the plurality of social groups; the group interaction manager also facilitating a default mode communication of a new message by one member of one of a plurality of social groups to all the other members of the one of a plurality of social groups when the group interaction type associated with the one of a plurality of social groups is a peer-to-peer group; the group interaction manager facilitating another default mode communication of a new message by one member of one of a plurality of social groups to only the group managers of the one of a plurality of social groups when the group interaction type associated with the one of a plurality of social groups is a managed group and the user type associated with the one member is regular; the group interaction manager facilitating communication of a new message by one member of one of a plurality of social groups to all the members of the one of a plurality of social groups when the group interaction type associated with the one of a plurality of social groups is managed group and the user type associated with the one member is manager; and wherein the new message and response to the new message comprises a textual component, an audio component, a digital image component, a video component, a GPS coordinate component, an IP address component, a sales offer, a security information and an encrypted secure data. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of managing interaction in social groups supported by a server, the method comprising:
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creating managed social groups at the server based on anticipated participation by a plurality of individuals in a group activity, wherein each of the managed social groups comprises at least a group name, a group identification, a group type, a group category, a region identification, an organization identification, a primary group manager and an interaction type; providing a user profile for each of the plurality of individuals at the server, wherein the user profile comprises at least a user identification, a contact information, personal preferences information, status, category receiving mode, subscription type, default social group identification, a user type, and a default friends list identification; registering the plurality of individuals to appropriate ones of the managed social groups at the server by maintaining a group-user mapping comprising the group identification, the user identification, a status and a member type; controlling access employing a login activity wherein each of the plurality of individuals attempt a local decentralized login on a corresponding user device communicatively coupled to the server before attempting a centralized login at the server; posting selectively a one-to-one or one-to-many new message to the managed social groups by each of the plurality of individuals, wherein each of the plurality of individuals employ their corresponding user device; and managing, by a personal social and business manager module, membership data related to the membership of the one of the plurality of individuals in one or more of the managed social groups as well as membership in other external public social groups; and facilitating, by the personal social and business manager module, interactions by the one of the plurality of individuals in the one or more of the managed social groups, employing the membership data; and wherein the personal social and business manager module is part of the corresponding user device, part of an electronic device communicatively coupled to the corresponding user device, or part of the server; displaying messages and responses selectively employing a list format or a thread-based tree format, wherein the thread-based tree format presents a set of messages and responses organized as a plurality of expandable threads, wherein such organization is dynamically conducted by processing a current set of messages and responses that are retrieved from the server in a chronological order. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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