Relationship security in online social and professional networks and communities

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-02-10
TIMEDRIGHT
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In one embodiment, the present invention may advantageously provide a benefit and rule config

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Day to day work for individuals in today's industries can be highly irregular and unpredictable, and with so many different parts working in isolation there are limited opportunities for people to be exposed to one another.
Further, with few networks supporting these people or groups in reaching out and connecting with each other, it's easy for them to become isolated.
All of this makes it very difficult for industry professionals to get in touch w

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Example Interaction 14—Available Appointment Time

Referring to FIG. 1, the AVAILABLE TIME PROCESS allows members 20 who are connected with each in a VENDOR (i.e. role 12b) and CUSTOMER (i.e. role 12a) relationship (i.e. role pair 12) to coordinate their interactions 14 so as to facilitate sales calls and meetings that are more predictable and productive than the current prior art systems. The process enables CUSTOMERS to identify 14 when they have AVAILABLE TIME (either MEETINGS or FLEX CALLS) for VENDORS to visit.

For MEETINGS, the CUSTOMER simply sets up 14 when he wants a VENDOR to come (e.g. 10 to 10:15 am on Wednesday or 12:30 to 1:30 pm for lunch on Thursday.) FLEX CALLS are periods of time that the CUSTOMER has indicated they will accept a number of drop-in calls (e.g. between 1 pm and 3 pm on Fridays they would accept up to three FLEX CALLS.), as visible on their online profile 9.

Only members 20 who are connected to a CUSTOMER as a VENDOR can see 14 AVAILABLE MEETINGS and / or A...

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A method for evolving a defined online existing relationship between two members, the online existing relationship defined by a plurality of existing relationship features to manage network interaction on a communications network between the two members. The method includes receiving a new online relationship having new relationship features different from existing relationship features and characteristic of the new relationship; aggregating the existing and new relationship features as aggregate relationship features to define an aggregate relationship; storing the aggregate relationship features as relationship data; and accessing the relationship data to determine whether a selected network interaction from one of the members is permitted in view of at least one of the corresponding aggregate relationship features, and facilitating the selected network interaction when permitted; wherein the corresponding aggregate relationship features include at least one of the network interaction type, the network interaction content, or the network interaction format.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTIONThis invention relates to configuration of networked entities for coordination of interaction between the networked entities.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONIn today's multifaceted society, there are a number of industries (e.g. healthcare) that can be characterized as having a particularly fragmented workforce—in healthcare from physicians to nurses to practice administrators—that are extremely busy in their day to day activities. Day to day work for individuals in today's industries can be highly irregular and unpredictable, and with so many different parts working in isolation there are limited opportunities for people to be exposed to one another. Further, with few networks supporting these people or groups in reaching out and connecting with each other, it's easy for them to become isolated. All of this makes it very difficult for industry professionals to get in touch with who they want when they need to, to stay in touch with colleagues and co-workers within ...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F15/16G06F15/173H04W4/21
CPCG06Q10/10H04W4/206H04L63/104H04L29/08684H04W4/21H04L67/54
Inventor HILL, DAVE
Owner TIMEDRIGHT
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