METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING WEB PAGES FOR MEMBERS

• US 20130290456A1
• Filed: 06/26/2013
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Frank M Weyer, Troy K Javaher
• Original Assignee: Frank M Weyer, Troy K Javaher
• Inventors: WEYER, FRANK MICHAEL, JAVAHER, TROY KUROSH
• Granted Patent: US 9,137,192 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/37 E-mail addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/50 Address allocation
• 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: H04M 2201/60 Medium conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with text-based messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems

Abstract

The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for generating web pages for members.

Claims

1. A method for providing individual online presences for a each of a plurality of members of a group of members by a server system comprising the steps of:

maintaining by said server system a database comprising information associated with each of said plurality of members at a database system connected to said server system;

allotting by said server system individual URLS to each of said plurality of members by associating an individual URL with each individual member of said plurality of members in said database system;

associating by said server system an individual home page for each said individual member of said plurality of members with said individual URL allotted to said individual member in said database system, said individual home page comprising information from said database associated with said individual member;

a first control for submitting a comment about said individual member; and

a second control separate from said first control for sending a message other than said comment to said individual member;

receiving by said server system an online request for said individual URL from a requesting source;

providing said individual home page by said server system to said requesting source.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of providing by said server system a message entry interface in response to activation of said second control.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of providing by said server system a comment entry interface in response to activation of said first control.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said individual home page further comprises a link to an existing website of said individual member.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said individual home page further comprises rating information associated with said individual member.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said individual home page further comprises a control for submitting rating information for said individual member.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of providing a rating entry interface by said server system in response to activation of a control of said individual home page.

8. The method of claim 2 further comprising the step of receiving by said server system a message entered into said message entry interface.

9. The method of claim 3 further comprising the step of receiving by said server system a comment entered into said comment entry interface.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising the step of displaying by said server system a rating comprising said comment on said individual home page.

11. The method of claim 7 further comprising the step of receiving by said server system rating information entered into said rating entry interface.

12. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of sending by said server system a message to an existing e-mail address for said individual member in response to receiving said message entered into said message entry interface.

13. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of sending by said server system a reply message to a sender of said message entered into said message entry area.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein said step of sending a reply message by said server system to said sender comprises sending a message to an e-mail address created for said sender.

15. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of displaying rating information for said individual member by said server system on said individual home page.

16. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of sending by said server system a message to a telephone of said individual member in response to receiving said message entered into said message entry interface.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein said message sent by said server system to said telephone comprises a voice message.

18. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of sending by said server system an e-mail message to an existing e-mail address for said individual member in response to receiving said message entered into said message entry interface, said e-mail message comprising a reply-to address created by said server system.

19. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of sending by said server system an e-mail message to an existing e-mail address for said individual member in response to receiving said message entered into said message entry interface, said e-mail message comprising information about a service provided by said server system.

20. The method of claim 1 wherein said plurality of members of said group of members comprises each member of said group of members.