Web-based system for publishing owner configurable web sites
OwnerWesley W. Whitmyer, JR.inventor
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Abstract
A web-based system allows for publishing a website with features and access configured on a user-by-user basis by the website owner to present personal data as well as social network feeds in a single interface. The website owner can update and manage his/her social media from the same page, as well as organize private data if desired. The system includes a messaging function, in accordance with which users can drop a message into the message service of a site owner, and it gets delivered to the site owner in exactly the manner specified by the site owner.
Claims20
A web-based system for publishing a website comprising:
- a configurable web server;
- a communications link between the configurable web server and a network;
- user access hardware;
- a communications link between the user access hardware and the network;
- owner website data on the configurable web server;
- software executing on the configurable web server for providing permitted users with access to the owner website;
- the owner website providing the permitted users with access to functions of other websites on a per-function and per-permitted user basis.
A method of publishing a website comprising the steps of:
- providing a configurable web server connected to a network;
- receiving user setup data from user setup hardware with the configurable web server over the network;
- receiving an authentication from user access hardware with the configurable web server over the network;
- in response, transmitting from the configurable web server to the user access hardware over the network data identifying websites with functions accessible to a user;
- receiving a selection from the user access hardware of a website from the data identifying websites with functions accessible to the user with the configurable web server over the network;
- in response, transmitting from the configurable web server to the user access hardware over the network data identifying functions accessible to a user;
- in response, transmitting from the configurable web server to the user access hardware over the network data identifying functions accessible to a user for the selected website;
- receiving a selection from the user access hardware of a function from the data identifying functions accessible to the user with the configurable web server over the network;
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- in response, transmitting from the configurable web server to the user access hardware over the network data relating to the selected function of the selected website.
A web-based system for publishing a website comprising:
- a web server accessible over a network, said web server having a processor;
- a database of functions for use by said web server to retrieve and display third-party data on a website;
- a database of website data including, on an owner-by-owner basis, a list of functions from said function database to be included on each of a plurality of websites and a list of users permitted to view the third-party data from each of the included functions on each of the plurality of websites;
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- software executing on the processor for receiving a viewer authentication and for creating a page of one of the plurality of the websites for display to the viewer, the page including a portion for display of permitted ones of the plurality of websites, a portion for display of permitted functions on the selected website, and a portion for display of the third-party data from the selected function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.