US 8,046,309 B2Granted

Community awareness management systems and methods

AssigneeCeleritasworks, LLC

InventorsScott A. Evans, Robert L. Marshall, Brett A. Lester, Larry D. Miley

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Abstract

A system and method links one or more disparate community awareness management (CAM) datasets for a community awareness program (CAP) with one or more spatial layers to create linked CAM datasets. One or more data attributes common to a CAM dataset and a spatial layer are identified, and the link is defined between the CAM dataset and the spatial layer. The spatial layer and the linked CAM dataset then may be queried using a single input query. Features from the spatial layer and features from the linked CAM dataset that match the query are generated for display. In one embodiment, a system and method manage CAP assets, transactions, interest areas for the CAP, and buffer areas for the CAP. An audience utility enables entering and maintaining audience data for the CAP. A journal utility enables making journal entries for one or more audience members, CAP assets, transactions, and/or other CAM data. A link document utility enables linking one or more documents to CAM data.

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Dependent claims

A system for managing community awareness data for a pipeline community awareness program (CAP), the pipeline CAP providing information associated with at least one pipeline asset for the pipeline CAP to at least one contact for the pipeline CAP, the system comprising:

at least one processor;
a data management system executing on the at least one processor comprising:
community awareness management (CAM) data, the CAM data comprising pipeline asset data for at least one pipeline asset and audience data for the at least one contact for the pipeline CAP to which at least some of the information associated with the at least one pipeline asset is provided;
and
geospatial data for an area for the pipeline CAP;
a spatial management system executing on the at least one processor, generating at least one query for the CAM data and the geospatial data to the data management system, receiving selected CAM data and selected geospatial data from the data management system in response to the at least one query, and generating map data based on the selected geospatial data and at least some selected CAM data, the map data identifying at least a pipeline CAP area portion, the at least one contact within the pipeline CAP area portion to which the at least some information associated with the at least one pipeline asset is provided, and at least one member of a group consisting of at least one pipeline asset portion within the pipeline CAP area portion, at least one interest area portion for the at least one pipeline asset within the pipeline CAP area portion, and at least one buffer area portion for the at least one pipeline asset;
a program management system executing on the at least one processor receiving an input, initiating the at least one query to the spatial management system based on the input, receiving the map data and the selected CAM data from the spatial management system, and generating at least one result of the query, the at least one result comprising the map data and the selected CAM data, the selected CAM data comprising at least one second member of a second group consisting of at least some of the pipeline asset data for the at least one pipeline asset and at least some of the audience data for the at least one contact to which the at least some information associated with the at least one pipeline asset is provided;
an audience management system configured to manage the audience data for the at least one contact;
and
a user interface receiving the input, transmitting the input to the program management system, receiving the at least one result from the program management system, and generating the at least one result for display.

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A system for managing community awareness data, the system comprising:

at least one processor;
a data management system executing on the at least one processor to manage data in memory comprising:
community awareness management (CAM) data for a pipeline community awareness program (CAP), the pipeline CAP providing information associated with at least one pipeline asset for at least one audience member for the pipeline CAP, the CAM data comprising audience for the at least one audience member and pipeline asset data for the at least one pipeline asset;
and
geospatial data for an area associated with the pipeline CAP;
a spatial management system executing on the at least one processor, receiving at least some selected CAM data, generating at least one query of the geospatial data to the data management system, receiving selected geospatial data from the data management system in response to the at least one query, and generating map data based on the selected geospatial data and the at least some selected CAM data, the map data identifying at least a portion of the area associated with the pipeline CAP, the at least one audience member within the pipeline CAP area portion for which the information associated with the at least one pipeline asset is provided, and at least one member of a group consisting of at least one pipeline asset portion within the pipeline CAP area portion;
a program management system executing on the at least one processor, accepting an input, initiating at least one second query corresponding to the input to the data management system and receiving selected CAM data in response thereto, transmitting the at least some selected CAM data to the spatial management system, initiating the at least one query corresponding to the input to the spatial management system, and receiving the map data from the spatial management system, the selected CAM data comprising at least one second member of a second group consisting of at least some of the audience data for the at least one audience member for which the information associated with the at least one pipeline asset is provided and at least some of the pipeline asset data for the at least one pipeline asset;
an audience management system managing audience data for the at least one audience member;
and
a user interface receiving the input, transmitting the input to the program management system, receiving the selected CAM data and the map data from the program management system, and generating the selected CAM data and the map data for display.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/833,097Filed 2 Aug 2007 · continuation
Priority: 19 Feb 2004
Published: US 2008/0021726 A124 Jan 2008
Granted: 25 Oct 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06Q 50/10
Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g.…:…
G06F 16/29
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: geographical information databases
G06F 16/958
Retrieval from the web: organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
G06Q 10/40
Administration; Management: business processes related to social networking or social networking services

Family

Application60/546,715Us provisional application · filed 19 Feb 2004
Application11/059,847Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Feb 2005
US 2008/0021726 A1Pre-grant publication · published 24 Jan 2008
US 7,827,120 B1Parent of this continuation
US 8,046,309 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.