Patent ID: 8543664

Claim:
A community network system accessed through a first community portal and a second community portal, the community network system comprising: a tool set including software applications that provide portal functionality within the community network system; a role set defining user roles, each user role being defined by a permission set, each permission set specifying a level of access to the tool set within the community network system; a first permission list designating software applications of the tool set and user roles of the role set as a first partition permission set available to an administrator of the first community portal for creating the first community portal, wherein the first community portal administrator is restricted to selecting software applications and user roles within the first partition permission set for inclusion in the first community portal; a second permission list designating software applications of the tool set and user roles of the role set as a second partition permission set available to an administrator of the second community portal for creating the second community portal, wherein the second community portal administrator is restricted to selecting software applications and user roles within the second partition permission set for inclusion in the second community portal; a web server computer that serves the software applications and the user roles through the first community portal and the second community portal, the software applications and user roles within the first partition permission set being different than the software applications and user roles within the second partition permission set.