METHOD AND APPARATUS TO LINK MEMBERS OF A GROUP

• US 20090193083A1
• Filed: 01/30/2009
• Published: 07/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gerald Rea, Robert A. Drake, Wesley G. Brandenburg
• Original Assignee: Gerald Rea, Robert A. Drake, Wesley G. Brandenburg
• Inventors: Rea, Gerald, Brandenburg, Wesley G., Drake, Robert A.
• Application Number:
  US12/362,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20090193083A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services

Abstract

A system for providing an online community to link members of a community together. The online community may include a business portal, a community portal, a people portal, and an education portal.

Claims

1. A system for providing an online community having a plurality of spaced apart online community member computing devices which are connectable to a network, the system comprising:

a computing device being operatively connected to the plurality of online community member computing devices through the network;

a memory accessible by the computing device;

a database stored on the memory, the database including for each online community member information related to the online community member;

a business portal having a plurality of business community applications;

a community portal having a plurality of community applications;

a people portal having a plurality of people community applications; and

an education portal having a plurality of education community applications, wherein each of the business portal, the community portal, the people portal, and the education portal are accessible by an online community member over the network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the business community applications include a statistics application, a business administration application, a web presence application, a job posting application, a labor pool application, a succession application, an expansion application, an open calls application, a jobs and applicants application, a personnel scheduling application, an employee attributes application, and an entrepreneurship application.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the community applications include a workforce application, a religious based directory application, a search function application, a web page application, an events calendar application, a community forum application, a directory of key features in the community application, a what is open application, a community sites application, and a scheduling application.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the people community applications include a messaging application, an events calendar application, and a web page application.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the education community applications include a cover letter creator application, a resume creator application, a goals application, a self-improvement application, a search job posting application, a search business application, and a student survey application.