Web-based system for publishing owner configurable web sites

Abstract

A web-based system allows for publishing a website with features and access configured on a user-by-user basis by the website owner to present personal data as well as social network feeds in a single interface. The website owner can update and manage his / her social media from the same page, as well as organize private data if desired. The system includes a messaging function, in accordance with which users can drop a message into the message service of a site owner, and it gets delivered to the site owner in exactly the manner specified by the site owner.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application claims the benefit of, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 119(e), U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 534,201, filed on Sep. 13, 2011, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]This application relates to configurable websites, and more particularly to configurable access control of web pages.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Configurable web pages are well known. Many web portals, such as Google® and Yahoo® for example, offer users the ability to customize a start or home page in addition to offering search engine capability. In the case of Google®, users can select and arrange so-called “gadgets” which add certain features to their pages. Each page is personal to the user, however, and cannot be accessed by anyone else.[0004]Also known are online tools that are often hosted by domain registrars for generating websites. Typically these tools use templates and themes to generate ...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

Enables users to manage and share their digital footprints across multiple platforms with precise access control, reducing the complexity of remembering multiple usernames and passwords, and providing a centralized hub for all online activities.

Problems solved by technology

Each page is personal to the user, however, and cannot be accessed by anyone else.

There is no way to control access on a functional basis, for example to control access for each added “gadget”.

Disadvantageously, therefore, a Google® Site can not include multiple gadgets on the same page with different access control limits to each “gadget”.

However access is only controllable on the site, not the functional, level and as with Google® Sites, access requires permitted users to login to a closed network.

For example, Facebook® does not want to make it easy for users to use Twitter®.

These aggregation sites are not designed or intended to present users' data to third parties.

Users set up a page that includes links to their various social media sites, but there is no way to control access to individual accounts on a user-by-user basis and there also is no way for the users to manage their own social media accounts from the same page, much less post updates or additional information about themselves.

These sites allow users to set up their own pages for publication of a variety of types of data, e.g., images, text, links etc., but there is no way to control access to each of type of data on a single site.

There is no simple way to collect data feeds from a variety of social networking sites and combine it with other user data for presentation on a single webpage with access control limited by individual function on the page as opposed to all functions on the page or site.

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