US 11,818,090 B2
Systems and methods for creating and sustaining cause-based social communities using wireless mobile devices and the global computer network
Tara Chand Singhal, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed by Tara Chand Singhal, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2011, as Appl. No. 12/932,259.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/460,463, filed on Jan. 3, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2012/0173630 A1, Jul. 5, 2012
Int. Cl. H04L 51/52 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/52 (2022.05) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system of creating and sustaining a cause-based social community on a global network of computers, comprising:
a cause-server, a cause-server database, and a social community application, the system operative with the social community application, wherein the social community application provides for creation of a cause-message, and wherein the cause-message comprises a specific multi-part structure that comprises identification of a cause via a cause-image and a cause-text message and a cause-originator overlaid over the cause-image, and wherein the cause is associated with members of the cause-based social community, and wherein the cause-message supports creation of either an ad hoc or permanent cause-based social community and wherein the cause-message is exclusively for causes that include at least one of, charitable, social, political, religious, and sports;
the cause-message comprises the cause-image part specifically selected to be able to fit within a limited size of display screens of handheld mobile wireless devices, wherein the cause-text part identifies the cause and the cause originator, and wherein the cause-text is overlaid on a portion of the cause-image;
the social community application provides for the cause-message creation by a celebrity, wherein a celebrity status of the cause originator identified in the cause server database and the cause-message is stored in the cause-server database of the cause-server and accessible over the global computer network by search and retrieval based on fields that include categories of causes, a cause identification, a cause originator identification, and a date range;
the social community application spreads the cause-message over the global computer network in response to a user sending a cause-message link in the cause-server to a list of contacts corresponding to the user, wherein the cause-message link embeds a program code that when clicked, displays the cause message; and
the social community application creates a geographic map showing the spread of the cause-message indicating locations of original mobile wireless device and locations of a first-ring and subsequent-rings of the mobile devices that have clicked the cause-message link to receive the cause-message, wherein:
a time out for the cause-message spread is declared when a rate of spread falls below a threshold, and
a total count by region is displayed and the geographic map is frozen and archived for subsequent retrieval searchable by the cause id, original mobile name and the date range.