Patent Document ID: 8527589
Application ID: 10737131
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer implemented method for managing member enrollment in a collaborative computing community, the method comprising: identifying one or more end user persons for enrollment in the collaborative computing community; implementing an enrollment model, executing in memory by a processor of a collaborative computing server, to determine whether to enroll the one or more identified end user persons as members in the community; updating community membership in an electronic storage medium of the collaborative computing server to enroll the one or more end user persons based on the implemented enrollment model; and wherein the implementing an enrollment model includes designating one or more community members as a sponsor member having privileges, the sponsor member granted a further privilege of sponsoring one or more of the end user persons for community membership as a sponsored member, wherein the sponsored member is granted a sponsored role in the community with privileges less than the privileges of a full member role.