METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ON-DEMAND COMMUNITIES

• US 20120311054A1
• Filed: 07/20/2012
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Yoshida, Norimasa, Grenney, Jamie Veere Coleman, Lin, Likuo, Lin, Justin
• Granted Patent: US 8,660,992 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 2230/00 Voting or election arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

In an embodiment, communities are generated on demand. In this specification a community is a group of webpages in which users share ideas with one another by posting ideas and sending messages for one another to read. An on-demand community is a community that may be created via tools specialized for creating communities, with just a few keys strokes and/or mouse clicks and by adding information (e.g., about the members and/or the topic or set of topics that the community is focused upon), such that a community may be established within a short amount of time, such as a few minutes or a few hours. Optionally, the communities may be initially populated with ideas related to a particular topic or set of topics. Optionally, each member may be provided with tools for establishing one or more profile page and/or one or more friend pages.

Claims

1. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method, the method comprising:

receiving a request to post an idea on a profile page;

in response to receiving the request, sending the profile page with the idea posted on the profile page; and

sending an idea webpage to a user having ideas posted thereon and having tools for receiving votes for the posted ideas.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, the user being an administrator that administrates the tenant'"'"'s portion of the multi-tenant database.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, the tenant webpages including one or more webpages having one or more URLs in a format appropriate for copying the one or more URLs.

4. A method, comprising:

receiving a request to post an idea on a profile page;

in response to receiving the request, sending the profile page with the idea posted on the profile page; and

sending an idea webpage to a user having ideas posted thereon and having tools for receiving votes for the posted ideas.

5. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of;

receiving a request to post an idea on a profile page;

in response to receiving the request, sending the profile page with the idea posted on the profile page; and

sending an idea webpage to a user having ideas posted thereon and having tools for receiving votes for the posted ideas.