Method for establishing and maintaining a digital family and friends tree and adding newborn or unborn to same

Abstract

The present web-based system and methods enabled by an application executable on a computing device of the system allow subscribers to develop a private circle and interactive family & friends tree within a private social network, adding a newborn or unborn person to same, and scheduling delivery of selected content to a designated recipient, either on a future date or upon occurrence of a future event having a date unknown to the subscriber. The system may determine a delivery date for the selected content, even if no date is specified by the subscriber, based on data obtained from other subscribers to the private circle and/or machine learning analysis, and may validate the delivery date before delivering the content.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 17 / 072,698, filed Oct. 16, 2020 and entitled METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING A MULTI-FUNCTIONAL PRIVATE SOCIAL NETWORK, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The invention relates generally to a multi-functional private social network embodied in a machine-learning enabled application that enables collaborative development of an interactive family & friends tree, targeting of specific content from a subscriber for delivery on the occurrence of a specified future event to a specified user, and integration with a subscriber's digital will.BACKGROUND[0003]Known social networking applications (“apps”) may enable real-time messaging between existing participants and / or may provide a given participant with event notifications and / or suggestions of other existing participants with whom to connect. However, kn...

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Benefits of technology

[0004]The present invention is directed generally to processes enabled by a private social network operating on a web-based system that includes an application executable on a personal computing device. A group of subscribers to the network may form a private circle, such as a circle of family and/or close friends. Some processes enabled by the private social network allow a subscriber to generate content and schedule the generated content for future delivery to a designated recipient, either one who is living or who will be born in the future. The delivery may be set to occur on a known future date, on a future milestone or event wherein the milestone start date or event occurrence date is known or not known, or on the occurrence of a future event on a date unknown to the user at the time of delivery scheduling and that may, or may not, occur. Instead of specifying a delivery date, the subscriber instead may specify that the content is to be delivered as a “smart card,” for which the web-based system is configured to predict a delivery date by analyzing data gathered from other subscribers to the private circle, such as by applying machine learning algorithms to the data. The web-based system and method that allows users to send digital content also allow

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However, known social networking apps lack advanced features, such as machine-learning enabled features, to enable validation of a determined date for a system to deliver content from a subscriber on the occurrence of a future event to a specified recipient, regardless of whether the date of the event or recipient are personally known to the subscriber.

Known social networking applications a

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