Community Awareness Management Systems and Methods

• US 20080027745A1
• Filed: 08/02/2007
• Published: 01/31/2008
• 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, Marshall, Robert, Lester, Brett, Miley, Larry
• Granted Patent: US 8,046,310 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• 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) and operable with at least one processor comprising:

community awareness management (CAM) data comprising pipeline asset data for at least one pipeline asset and audience data for at least one contact associated with the pipeline CAP;

geospatial data for an area for the pipeline CAP;

a spatial management system configured to generate map data in response to at least one query of the CAM data and the geospatial data, the map data identifying at least a pipeline CAP area portion, the at least one contact, and at least one member of a group consisting of at least one pipeline asset portion, at least one interest area portion for the at least one pipeline asset, and at least one buffer area portion for the at least one pipeline asset;

a program management system configured to receive an input, to initiate the at least one query of the CAM data and the geospatial data based on the input, and to determine at least one result of the query, the at least one result comprising the map data and at least one second member of a second group consisting of at least some pipeline asset data for the at least one pipeline asset and at least some audience data for the at least one contact;

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 configured to generate the at least one result for display.