Caringfamily, LLC

Other

U S West Technologies, Inc.

Michael David Williams

David Taenzer

Paul Davoust

John P Lafer

John R Meier

John E Faust

Donald Kasica

Paul Hudnut

Methods and systems are provided for promoting and managing communications among members of a caregroup. Potential recipients of digital gifts are limited to targets of caregroups in which the members participate. An indication of a digital gift to be delivered in hardcopy form to a hardcopy-based email appliance of the target is received. The email appliance is operable to receive digital gifts and produce hardcopy output of the digital gifts. For each content-containing component of the digital gift, default content items are selected based upon one or more of biographical information previously supplied information regarding communications history with the target, ascertained preferences of the target, and the digital gift type. The member of the caregroup is allowed to initiate delivery of the digital gift with the selected default content items or is allowed to personalize the digital gift prior to delivery within a digital gift editor.

Facilitating and encouraging caregroup communications via a closed communication service and hardcopy-based email appliances

Methods and systems are provided for promoting and managing communications among a social support network. According to one embodiment, a communication system includes a closed communication service platform and a hardcopy-based communication appliance. The communication service platform provides a caregroup virtual private network (VPN) through which only registered members of the caregroup, authorized personnel of the communication service platform, processes associated with the communication service platform, and a target of the caregroup are permitted to exchange communications. The hardcopy-based communication appliance is associated with the caregroup VPN and used by the target and is operable to be communicatively coupled to the communication service platform to print inbound communications received from registered members of the caregroup, and to upload to the communication service platform outbound digital representations of annotated pages defining communications to be delivered to one or more members of the caregroup.

Influencing communications among a social support network

Systems and methods for facilitating photo completion are provided. According to one embodiment, a system is provided including a hand held device, an application running on the hand held device, and a printing system. The hand held device includes the capability to both capture and transmit digital photos. The application provides the hand held device with hyper-simplified photo capture and delivery. In one embodiment, the application defaults a number of parameters that can be configured on the hand held device, such as the target, the photo review mechanism, the presentation method. These defaults can be set (reset) directly in the application or overridden in the system post transmission processing. In one embodiment, the printing system may control the schedule of publication. For example, the printing system may print received digital photos immediately, the next morning, on a periodic basis, or after receiving eMail confirmation.

GrannySnap architecture

A method and system for developing a multimedia application for use on an interactive network. The system implements the method steps of receiving a set of signals representing a multimedia asset, defining an application composite describing an event, an action and a multimedia asset, and generating an ASCII source file based on the step of defining a composite.

Method and system for developing interactive multimedia applications for use on an interactive network

A method is disclosed for automatically managing multimedia assets for use in a multimedia application. The method includes the step of storing a plurality of multimedia asset data files in the system memory. Next, the method includes automatically categorizing the multimedia asset data files. The method further includes the step of storing identifying information associated with each multimedia asset data file. The method concludes with the step of generating a set of multimedia application asset files based on the steps of categorizing and storing. A system is also disclosed for implementing the steps of the method.

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Boulder, CO, United States of America

Michael David Williams