Patent ID: 8838622
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for monitored and filtered communication in a shared learning environment, the shared learning environment including a plurality of validated groups that communicate among one another, each of the plurality of validated groups comprising at least one participant, and a person associated with at least one of the validated groups with the associated person having the ability to define the filtration for the participant, the apparatus comprising: a central data storage center that receives group description data associated with a candidate group and stores the group description data; a first filter that validates the group description data whereupon the associated candidate group is deemed acceptable for participation in the shared learning environment, wherein the candidate group associated with the validated group description data thereby becomes one of the plurality of validated groups; and a second filter that monitors and scans communications between the plurality of validated groups, the second filter including at least a flagging filter that is capable of flagging communications between participants in validated groups for further filtration of the content of the flagged communications based, at least in part, on a portion of the group description data and on criteria other than message content and that forwards flagged communications for further inspection based on the filtration defined by the associated person for either the creator of the communication or the viewer of the communication.