Patent ID: 8918092
Filing Date: 2014-12-23
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A system for managing social group interactions, the system comprising: a server that supports creation and management of a plurality of social groups; a plurality of user devices communicatively coupled to the server that is used by a plurality of users; the server supporting the registration of each of the plurality of users as members of one or more of the plurality of social groups; the server saving a list of the plurality of social groups in which the one of the plurality of users is currently a member at the one of the plurality of user devices associated with the one of the plurality of users; each of the plurality of user devices facilitating local login by one of the plurality of users in order to provide access to message based communication services; the server facilitating login by the one of the plurality of users via the one of the plurality of user devices, when a local login attempt facilitated by the one of the plurality of user devices fails; the server facilitating open one-to-many and one-to-one interactions using messages in peer-to-peer type social groups by all members of such social groups; and the server facilitating controlled one-to-many and one-to-one social interactions by a manager type member using messages while supporting one-to-one social interactions by other types of members using messages in managed group type social groups; wherein the one of the plurality of user devices retrieves and stores the retrieved list of member references for each of the list of the plurality of social groups in which the one of the plurality of users is currently a member in a removable storage device, in a programmed card or a SIM card, plugged into and communicatively coupled to the one of the plurality of user devices; and wherein each of the messages and individual response to the messages comprises a textual component, an audio component, a digital image component, a video component, a GPS coordinate component, an IP address component, a sales offer component, an advertisement component, a security information component and an encrypted secure data component.