APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING FAMILY-CENTRIC COMMUNICATIONS

摘要

The present invention includes a computer-based Internet-enabled apparatus, system, and method for facilitating family-centric communications. The system includes a networked user terminal that presents to a user a family-centric user interface, accepts user input, and sends the user input to a server. The server includes a plurality of predefined modules, each with respective preconfigured security conditions and rules. Together the modules are arranged to mimic a family household and facilitate family activities including the gamification of everyday tasks or events. The server receives the user input, and stores and manages it in accordance with the security conditions and rules of a select module security conditions, including providing reminders and alerts to family members.

主权项

1. A computer-based Internet-enabled system for facilitating family-centric communications and management, comprising:
a user terminal with a hardware processor in data communication with a network interface that communicatively couples the user terminal to a network, the processor further in data communication with a data storage device storing instructions which, when executed on the processor, cause the user terminal to implement a family-centric social networking app that performs a method including:
presenting a family-centric system user interface on a display of the user terminal;accepting user input as an item of user information to be sent, and an identifier of a destination module on a family social network server to manage the sent information, wherein the destination module is one of a plurality of modules on the server;sending the user information and the module identifier to the server; and the server, having a hardware server processor in data communication with a server network interface that communicatively couples the server to the data communication network, the server processor further in data communication with a server data storage device storing instructions which, when executed on the server processor, cause the server to perform a method including:
receiving from the user terminal the user information and the module identifier;forwarding the user information to the identified module;storing the user information in accordance with a predetermined set of module security conditions;handling the user information by the module in accordance with a predetermined set of module rules; andproviding access to the user information by at least one other user terminal in accordance with the module security conditions, responsive to a request from the at least one other terminal.