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COMMUNITY-DEFINED AND MANAGED COMMUNICATION NETWORK

  • US 20100125611A1
  • Filed: 11/14/2008
  • Published: 05/20/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for implementing a community-defined and managed communication network among a community of users each operating a computer processor, and each computer processor in communication with a host system computer over the communication network, the method comprising:

  • creating, via a user interface of a networking application executing on the host system computer, a profile for a user of the communication network that includes at least one attribute selected by the user, the attribute representing at least one characteristic that describes the user;

    storing the profile in a profile record within a storage device communicatively coupled to the host system computer;

    identifying, via the networking application, a relationship between the attribute in the profile record and data external to the profile record, the identification including analyzing user community-generated descriptors of the attribute and searching the external data for common descriptors; and

    initiating, via the networking application, an activity responsive to the analysis, the activity including at least one of;

    prompting the user, via the user interface, to invite a second user who is not a registered member of the communication network to join the communication network, the external data including data from a communication between the user and the second user over the communication network;

    prompting a third user, via the user interface, to evaluate the user with respect to the attribute, the external data including data from a communication between the user and the third user; and

    prompting the user, via the user interface, to initiate a communication with a fourth user who is a registered member of the communication network, the external data including at least one attribute or descriptor of the attribute in a profile record of the fourth user that is found in the profile record of the user.

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