WO2013008128A1

WO2013008128A1 - Virtual mentoring social network site application

Info

Publication number: WO2013008128A1
Application number: PCT/IB2012/053362
Authority: WO
Inventors: Danny PEARSON
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2011-07-08
Filing date: 2012-07-02
Publication date: 2013-01-17
Anticipated expiration: 2014-01-08

Abstract

In a single embodiment of the present invention is a virtual mentoring (v-Mentoring) social network site application. The first virtual mentoring social network that enables auto-matches based on attribute specifics such as gender, age, and personality interest in one consolidated social media application site for virtual communicating within a social mentoring network environment. The virtual auto-matched-based virtual mentoring site collects a plurality of answers from embedded site questions, similar in context, all designed to auto-match (pair) youth (v-Mentees) with an adult (v-Mentor) based on personal, career, hobby, academic, and personality similarities. The virtual social network site simultaneously apply auto-generated business intelligence rules of engagement and social logic reasoning to auto-match (pair) virtual mentees and virtual mentors one-on-one or one-to-many to establish virtual relationships for short and long distance learning, mentoring, academic attitude and career enhancement.

Description

VIRTUAL MENTORING SOCIAL NETWORK SITE APPLICATION

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0001] A virtual mentoring sodal network site application that provides gender specific; One-to- one and peer to peer (male youth paired to male adults and female youth paired with female adults); youth age specific matches, education specific matches, personally specific matching and consolidated sodal media tools for communicating without any in- erson physical contact. The virtual mentoring social network site application uses the internet as an online application process within a social network environment while applying automated computer intelligence and automated rules of engagement to match (pair) a virtual mentee with a virtual mentor to establish mentoring relationships, long distance learning, and to track virtual mentoring relationships, behavior modifications, educational enhancements, and social logic reasoning. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] V- entoring (Virtual Mentoring) is widely used for providing online mentoring worldwide without travel or face to face physical contact. Today there is no competitive entity currently or prior that offers true auto-match-base virtual mentoring. There are standardized websites that claim to offer virtual mentoring as a resource of mentoring through Internet email (called eMentoring) and by using social media silo applications however, there is no one except Connectwerks (our site application) that provides real-time virtual mentoring within a social network environment with auto based matching, consolidated communication applications, a relationship management database, and business intelligence rules of engagement to pair attribute specific mentors and mentees. This is not an online dating website. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0003] In one embodiment of the present invention is a virtual mentoring social network site application that enables gender specific (male to male/female to female), youth age specific (same age matches), education specific (same grade levels), and personality specific (same interest) auto generated matching to provide youth to adult and peer to peer virtual mentoring without any in-person physical contact.

[0004] The purpose of this invention serves as the first virtual mentoring social network site application that also has investigative registered sex offender search and prohibit ability, auto generates matches; pairing individuals one-to-one or one-to-many), image recognition prohibits, shared consolidated user communication tools, assessment modules, and tracking & data analytics to evaluate the mentor/mentee relationship from anywhere in the world, in real-time, anytime.

[0005] Today there are several organizations that have standard websites that say they provide virtual mentoring, a method by which they use eMentorlng for emailing and/or a silo

communication tool such as Skype or video-pods to do what they call virtual mentoring.

However, there is no one providing virtual mentoring the way we are, and thaf s within a virtual mentoring social network site application with attribute specific auto generated matching and consolidated communications for interaction.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

FIG. 1 is a drawing of a required "sign-up" process for auto-generated gender specific and age category matches for virtual mentee and mentor matches as well as virtual peer to peer matching. Each sign-up and sign-in user is processed through a United States investigative database search for registered sex offenders. Known sex offenders are prohibited from signing in and are exited from the site application.

FIG. Z is a drawing of a required 12 customizable Youth Client profile questions format to determine by code intelligence an interest match-based fit for one individual to another individual; auto-generated gender specific and age category matches for virtual mentee and mentor matches as well as peer to peer matching.

FIG.3 is a drawing of a required 12 customizable Youth Client profile questions format to determine by code intelligence an interest match-based fit for one individual to another individual; auto-generated gender specific and age category matches for virtual mentee and mentor matches as well as peer to peer matching.

FIG.4 is a drawing of a required format for browsing and uploading (mp3) music, video (mp4), photo (images), recording a voice greeting (embedded), accept terms and conditions and to click Connect to proceed to a profile page. Videos and photos are image recognition scanned to prohibit in appropriate images such as nudity and pornography in photos and videos.

FIG. 5 is a drawing of a Youth user profile for a male and female format. This particular page is an example of male format page that display under "My V-Mentor Connectwerks" the adult gender specific virtual mentors and under the "V-Pals" the youth gender and age specific peer to peer virtual friends with consolidated communication tools such as audio play & listen, video, chat, video conferencing, the library for document sharing, creating groups, whiteboard blogging, updating or changing account profile information and passwords, reporting abuse, VIP gold ticket envelope, scrolling, names of virtual mentors, first name only of virtual mentees, language translation, emailing; receiving and sending, music uploading, calendar scheduling, electronic youth assessment form, and searching.

FIG.6 is a drawing of an Adult user profile for a male and female format. This particular page is an example of male format page that display under "Professional V-Mentor Connectwerking" the adult gender specific peer to peer virtual mentors and under the "Requested Youth v-Connects" the letter "C" which represents the youth gender and age specific of the youth that have requested a virtual connection to a virtual mentor with consolidated communication tools such as audio play & listen, video, chat, video conferencing, the library for document sharing, creating groups, whiteboard blogging, updating or changing account profile information and passwords, reporting abuse, VIP gold ticket envelope, scrolling, names of virtual mentors, first name only of virtual mentees, language translation, emailing; receiving and sending, music uploading, calendar scheduling, electronic youth assessment form, and searching.

FIG. 7 is a drawing of the key code sequence used and needed to create a private (closed) group from a user profile page. Private group creation requires an auto generated 7 digit key code in order to set-up a private group.

FIG. 8 is a flow diagram of a preferred process that display the workflow for matching virtual mentees (youth), virtual mentors (adults), virtual peer to peer youth and virtual peer to peer adults based on gender, age, grade, and personality interest; interpersonal attributes.

FIG.9 is a drawing of a 11 Company/Agency Profile questions required to determine if a company/agency/school is interested in our site application as a software as a service or interested in our innovative virtual mentoring program modules.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

virtual Mentoring (V-Mentoring) Social Network Site Application

In one embodiment of the present invention is a virtual mentoring social network site application used via the internet that enables gender specific (male to mate/female to female), youth age specific (same age matches), education specific (same grade levels), and personality specific (same interest) auto generated matching to provide youth to adult and peer to peer virtual mentoring without any in-person physical contact. The purpose of this invention serves as the first virtual mentoring social network site application that also has investigative registered sex offender search and prohibit ability, auto generates matches; pairing individuals one-to-one or one-to-many), image recognition prohibits, shared consolidated user communication tools, assessment modules, and tracking & data analytics to evaluate the mentor/mentee relationship from anywhere in the world, in real-time, anytime.

Referring now to FIGS. 1-19, in one embodiment of the present Invention, a virtual mentoring (v- Mentoring) social network site application used via the internet is provided. FIG.l shows a required "sign-up" process for auto-generated gender specific and age category matches for potential virtual mentee and virtual mentor matches. FIG.l shows to the left a trademark company logo name called Connectwerks, and logo slogans; The World's First V-Mentoring Social Network" and Legends live forever, discover your inner legend with Connectwerks".

To the top mid right is the sign-in; a requirement for returning account profile users to input their sign-in email address that was initially used to create a user profile to sign into their user profile. Password; is a requirement for returning account profile users to input their password that they used to initially create their user account profile to sign into their user profile. To the upper right side is a section for "forgot your password" for your password to be auto generated and sent to you. Directly below the words, "Forgot Your Password" is an icon logo button that reads; "Connect Now" designed that when clicked on it sends an individual to their account user profile page but only if their sign-in and password correct with proper input.

There is also an About Us; that talks about who we are as a company. Mobile; for a application of the site, Careers; section for career opportunities with Connectwerks, Privacy; information about a users privacy rights, Terms; information about our site terms and conditions, Affiliates;

information where companies can inquiry about becoming an affiliate or business partner, English, Brazil, Deutsch, France, Japanese, and Korean; indicating language translation options of the site.

There is a youth silhouette photo in the middle to the left and on the right side is the user sign-up requiring a first name, last name, state, email address, re-enter email address, new password, I am; a drop down for selection choice answers of A Youth, An Adult, School/Company/Agency, Birthday; a drop down for selection of month, day, and year, Gender; a drop down choice selection of Male or Female, all attributes of which are processed through an investigative database search for registered sex offenders as shown on FIG. 8, to prohibited or allow potential users access to signing into the site application. The answers to the questions are used to determine a match (pairing) of similarities or interest of a virtual mentee to a virtual mentor. The color scheme of the site application is orange, navy blue, with white and black incorporated.

FIG. 2 shows a preferred and required process of 12 (can contain as many as 24) customizable Youth Client profile questions formatted to determine, by business intelligence (code

embedded), an interest match-based fit for one individual to another individual; auto-generated gender specific and age category matches for virtual mentee and mentor matches as well as peer to peer matching. Each question is customizable; meaning can be changed only by a private group user. Each question has a drop down choice selection process and you can't skip this site page unless you answer all the questions provided.

The answers to the questions are used to determine a match (pairing) of similarities or interest of a virtual mentee to a virtual mentor and which profile questionnaire will be displayed to you. At the top left is the company trademark logo called Connectwerks with the tag slogan of The World's First V-Mentoring Social Network". In the center of the site page is the title Youth Client Profile; indicating the name of the site page. At the bottom of the page is an icon that reads "Page 1 of 2"; informing you that there are 1 of 2 pages of questions to complete.

The "Next" icon button is used to move you to the section of the site process (or next site page). At the very bottom of the site page is English, Italian, Brazil, Deutsch, France Japanese, Korean, Chinese; indicating language translation options of the site. At the very bottom of the site page of FIG. 2 is a "lock" icon and the words that read, "Safe, secure, and private. Your account comes with secure SSL encryption for safety"; indicating that the site application is secured by a firewall from internet threats and that all user account information is server secure and confidential. FIG. 3 shows a preferred and required process of 12 (can contain as many as 24) customizable Adult Client profile questions formatted to determine, by business intelligence (code embedded), an interest match-based fit for one individual to another individual; auto-generated gender specific and age category matches for virtual mentee and mentor matches as well as peer to peer matching. Each question is customizable; meaning can be changed only by a private group user. Each question has a drop down choice selection process and you can't skip this site page unless you answer all the questions provided.

The answers to the questions are used to determine a match (pairing) of similarities or interest of a virtual mentee to a virtual mentor and which profile questionnaire will be displayed to you. At the top left is the company trademark logo called Connectwerks with the tag slogan of The World's First V-Mentoring Social Network". In the center of the site page is the title Adult Client Profile; indicating the name of the site page. At the bottom of the page is an icon that reads "Page 1 of 2"; informing you that there are 1 of 2 pages of questions to complete.

The "Next" icon button is used to move you to the section of the site process (or next site page). At the very bottom of the site page is English, Italian, Brazil, Deutsch, France Japanese, Korean, Chinese; indicating language translation options of the site. At the very bottom of the site page of FIG. 2 is a Hock" icon and the words that read, "Safe, secure, and private. Your account comes with secure SSL encryption for safety"; indicating that the site application is secured by a firewall from internet threats and that all user account information is server secure and confidential.

FIG. 4 shows a required format and function to create a user account profile that will allow you to browse to and for uploading (mp3) music, video (mp4), photo (images), to record while online a voice greeting, accept the terms and conditions and to click Connect to proceed to your profile page, videos and photos are image recognition scanned to prohibit in appropriate images such as nudity and pornography in photos and videos. At the top left is the company trademark logo called Connectwerks with the tag slogan of The World's First V-Mentoring Social Network".

In the middle of the site page on FIG. 4 is the words, Thank you for Connecting to Connectwerks, complete at least one of the following"; this is a indicator to thank you for signing up and to inform you that in order to create your profile you will need to upload a photo, check box to indicate uploading a photo later, upload a video, and to create a voice recording for your photo. All of these functions are needed to create a user account profile page as seen in FIG.5. The browse icon buttons are to allow for searching your desktop or laptop for images and/or audio to upload to upload directly into your account user profile.

FIG. 5 shows a Youth user account profile (will be the same for a youth male or a youth female). At the top left is the company trademark logo called Connectwerks with the tag slogan of The World's First V-Mentoring Social Network". Beside the logo slogan are the words Home; which if clicked brings a user back to the home page (as shown in FIG. ljV-Profile; is where account user can update user photos, videos, voice recordings, upload music, download music, PDF files, and word documents, Account; is where a profile user can change passwords, account name, update birthday, city, state, educational level, email address, and gender. At the top right is a search box that allows a profile user to search for other account users by first and/or last name and profession title.

To the upper left is the Youth Profile account user first and last name; used for profile

recognition. Under the user name is a photo with a voice recorded greeting for play; displayed by a play icon button, pause; displayed by a pause icon button, re-recording; displayed by a red circle icon button, and an audio play icon button indicator that lets you know that audio of some sort is playing. Below the profile youth photo is an mp4 video player that displays videos with a play icon indicator button for playing the video and a pause indicator button for pausing the video. All of these attributes functions can be changed at the "V-Profile" and "Account" sections of the user account profile.

The "Connect & Vyew" tab icon button is where account profile users click-on tab to use video conferencing where they can share video, online drawing, tutorials, and collaborative

communications for one-on-one or one-to-many meetings via the web (internet).

The "Create Groups" tab icon is where account profile users click- on tab to create open and closed (private groups) of users of the same interest and/or hobbies. Private groups require a 7 digit key code as shown on FIG.7 and a license fee to activate the private group functionality that will allow individuals to have portal usage (cloud or premise hosted) of the site application to customize their own virtual mentoring initiatives.

"The Library" tab icon under the Create Groups tab icon is where account profile users go to obtain (upload and download) tutorials, PDF files, word documents, web links, video pods, videos, music audio, webcast, photos (of various formats), and audio speech recordings uploaded by other account profile users for sharing and usage.

There is an audio music functionality that allows account profile users the ability to listen to uploaded and downloaded music of their own and of other account profile account users. This music should be copyrighted or original music by the account profile user. The play icon button is for playing the audio, the speaker icon is an indicator that displays whether or not the audio is playing, the stop icon button is for stopping the play of audio with a song title and the number of song plays indicator.

To the mid right of the user account profile page are tabs for Private Messages; where account profile users can send and receive email messages, Music Upload; is where account profile users can upload music mp3's; Calendar; is where account profile users can schedule calendar events such as a Connect & Vyew web conferendng meeting; YES stands for Youth Enhancement Strategy is a module where account profile users can fill out an electronic form designed to track, monitor, and enhance academic progression. Under the Private Messages, Music Uploads, Calendar, and YES tabs are the words "My V- Mentor Connectwerks" which is (automatically populated from the profile questions) for adult gender specific; (males for males and females for females). The format is for both "My V- Mentor Connectwerks" are formatted and designed exactly alike. This functionality allows only for the viewing of registered account adult (male and/or female users) to be seen and for youth to click on photo to view the adult's profile for the decision making of sending that particular person a request to connect for virtual mentoring. A youth can view an adulf s complete user profile and send request from this area by clicking on the adulf s photo. The adulf s called "V- MentorV have their names and profession title located under their photo. There is a scroll left and scroll right icon buttons to view multiple adult (V-Mentors) photos for choice selection. Once a youth selects an adult (V-Mentor) an auto email is generated and sent to that adults (V- Mentors) private messages email inbox indicating that they have a request v-Mentor a youth. The adult (V-Mentor) can accept or decline the request. If the adult (v-Mentor) accepts the request (by clicking on the letter "C" under the "Requested Youth v-Connects" as shown on FIG.6 then the youth is sent an auto generated email indicating that an adult (v-Mentor) has accepted their inquiry/request. If the adult (v-Mentor) declines the youth request /inquiry then the youth (v-Mentee) is sent an auto-generated email indicating that the adult (v-Mentor) elects not to connect at this time due to time constraints. Only a youth male to male or female to female youth (v-Mentee) can select an adult male to male or female to female (V-Mentor) to request a connect for virtual mentoring. Once a V-Mentor has been requested and accepted the adults photo is highlighted and remains that way until the virtual relationships is terminated. And the virtual relationship can be terminated by either the youth (vMentee) and/or the adult (vMentor).

V-Pals (automatically populated from profile questions) is where the youth gender specific, age specific, education level specific peer to peer V-Pals (friends) are gathered for virtual communication through the consolidated means of such tools as audio play & listen, video chat, video conferencing, the library for document sharing, creating open groups, and whiteboard blogging. V-Pals are gender specific; male to male and female to female only. V-Pals are education specific; grade level matches, meaning 5^th graders with 5^th graders from anywhere in the world, and age specific; meaning all same age 10 year olds. Education level will take precedent over age when categorizing attributes. V-Pals display a youth's photo and only the first name of the youth under that particular youth's name. There is a scroll icon button to the left and to the right of the photos for use by a youth account user to scroll multiple V-Pals of the same specific attributes. When clicking on "V-Pals" (youth's) photo the account user can view the complete profile of the other youth user and request a connection. Once a V-Pal selects another youth account user to be a V-Pal with an auto generated email goes into the other youth's private messages inbox to accept or decline the V-Pal request. The youth (v-Pal) can accept or decline the request. If the youth accepts the request then the youth who sent the request is sent an auto generated email indicating that a youth (V-Pal) has accepted their inquiry/request. If the youth (v-Pal) declines the youth request inquiry then the youth is sent an auto-generated email indicating that the youth that received the request elects not to V-Pal connect at this time. Once a V-Pal has been requested and accepted that particular youths' photo is highlighted and remains that way until the virtual relationships is terminated. And the virtual relationship can be terminated by either V-Pal youth.

The "Whiteboard" is where youth account profile users can audio and video chat simultaneously or participate in blogging directly on top of the whiteboard itself.

VIP Gold Ticket with the lower left of the "whiteboard" is where youth account profile users can earn reward points for connecting with their V-Mentor total of 24 hours every 3 months, 96 a year, completing and following through with their YES and CAS educational and career modules. Once these attribute target goals are attained the VIP Gold Ticket glows in a bright blue neon color to indicate that the one or several of the listed targets have been completed,

(accomplished by written line code). The reward for this accomplishment is that youth can receive exclusive webcast and online prizes for downloading.

Located at the bottom of the youth user account profile are the titles of About Us; that talks about who we are as a company. Mobile; for a application of the site, Careers; section for career opportunities with Connectwerks, Privacy; information about a users privacy rights, Terms;

information about our site terms and conditions, Affiliates; information where companies can inquiry about becoming an affiliate or business partner, English, Brazil, Deutsch, France,

Japanese, and Korean; indicating language translation options of the site.

At the very bottom of the youth account profile page is a "lock" icon and the words that read, "Safe, secure, and private. Your account comes with secure SSL encryption for safety"; indicating that the site application is secured by a firewall from internet threats and that all user account information is server secure and confidential.

FIG. 6 shows an Adult user account profile (will be the same for an adult male or an adult female). At the top left is the company trademark logo called Connectwerks with the tag slogan of "The World's First V-Mentoring Social Network". Beside the logo slogan are the words Home; which if clicked brings a user back to the home page (as shown in FIG. 1, V-Profile; is where account user can update user photos, videos, voice recordings, upload music, download music, PDF files, and word documents, Account; is where a profile user can change passwords, account name, update birthday, city, state, educational level, email address, and gender. At the top right is a search box that allows a profile user to search for other account users by first and/or last name and profession title.

To the upper left is the Adult Profile account user first and last name; used for profile

recognition. Under the user name is a photo with a voice recorded greeting for play; displayed by a play icon button, pause; displayed by a pause icon button, re-recording; displayed by a red circle icon button, and an audio play icon button indicator; that lets you know that audio of some sort is playing. Below the profile youth photo is an mp4 video player that displays videos with a play icon indicator button for playing the video and a pause indicator button for pausing the video. All of these attributes functions can be changed at the "V-Profile" and "Account^* sections of the user account profile.

communications for one-on-one or one-to-many meetings via the web (internet).

The "Create Groups" tab icon is where account profile users click- on tab to create open and closed (private groups) of users of the same interest and/or hobbies. Private groups require a 7 digit key code as shown on FIG. 7 and a license fee to activate the private group functionality that will allow individuals to have portal usage (doud or premise hosted) of the site application to customize their own virtual mentoring initiatives.

To the mid right of the user account profile page are tabs for Private Messages; where account profile users can send and receive email messages, Music Upload; is where account profile users can upload music mp3's; Calendar; is where account profile users can schedule calendar events such as a Connect & Vyew web conferencing meeting; CAS which means Career Achievement Strategy, is a module where account profile users can fill out an electronic form designed to track, monitor, and enhance career professional growth.

Under the Private Messages, Music Uploads, Calendar, and CAS tabs are the words "Professional V-Mentor Connections" which is (automatically populated from profile questions) for adult gender specific; males will have one and females can have one and the format for both are formatted and designed exactly alike. This functionality allows only for the viewing of registered account adult (male and/or females users) to be seen by other adult users to click on photo to view the adulf s profile for the decision making of sending that adult a request to connect with the intentions of becoming a peer to peer virtual mentor or to virtual network.

Under the "Professional V- entor Connectwerking" this feature represents the entire V-Mentors adult PEERS that are potential matches for the adu!t peer v-mentoring based on the similarities from the answers to the questions provided in the adult profile questionnaires. This is where adults can view all of the adult potential peer matches of the entire adult male "V-Mentoring Connectwerking " community photos that have sign-up/signed-in to the site that match his/her adult profile questions. (The match does not have to be gender specific in this section AND the profile answers to the questions do not have to be an exact match just based more on similarities rules; i.e. like the dating websites). When a youth clicks on the photo of an adult (V-mentor) inside of the "My V-Mentor Connectwerk" that they can view that V-Mentors complete profile page.

When the adult clicks on the photo in the "V-Mentoring Connectwerking" community they can view the entire profile of the adult peer (females and males). If an adult is interested in peer mentoring or being mentored by a peer they click on the photo to read the profile and when finishing reading the profile dick on that adults particular photo and an auto generated email is sent to the receiving adulf s private email message inbox informing the adult v-Mentor that another adult v-Mentor has requested him/her to be their peer v-Mentor or to connectwerk with him or her. If the adult that received the request accepts the invitation then the two adults become virtually connected and are able to share in virtual mentoring functionality

communication tools and that particular adult's photo becomes highlighted within the adult senders Professional V-Mentoring Connectwerking community. If the adult that receives the request declines the invitation to connect then an auto generated email is sent to the adult sender that sent the request that the person (he or she) does not wish to connect at this time.

The adult account user can scroll to the left and to the right to view various sign-in adult user profiles. Also the photos of the adults on display for viewing have the first name, last name, and career profession title listed below the photo of the adults.

Under the words "Requested Youth V-Connects" the letter C represents youth email inquiries to a particular adult account profile users private messages email inbox on the profile page. In this section represents the entire youth request that a V-Mentor has received, with an indicator of the letter "C" in the Requested Youth V-Connect community. When an adult V-Mentor clicks on the letter C they can ONLY view partial of the youth's profile to include everything except photo, state, country, and email address. These potential youth matches represent with the letter C will be potential matches for the adult v-Mentor based on the similarities from the answers to the questions provided in the profile questionnaire. (The match does not have to be exact answers to answers but more on similarities. The letter C is there to hide the youth's photo from the adult unless and until a youth virtual connection is accepted. This is gender specific only to males and one that is gender specific only to females in this featured section.

When the adult V-mentor clicks on the letter C he/she has the option of accepting or declining a youth's inquiry to connect for a virtual mentoring experience. If the adult that received the request accepts the invitation then the youth and adult become virtually connected and an auto generated email goes out to each ones private email message inbox informing them that they are know connected. Furthermore, they are able to share in virtual mentoring functionality communication tools and that particular adult's photo becomes highlighted within the adult sender's profile page and on the youth profile page. If the adult that receives the request declines the invitation to connect then an auto generated email is sent to the youth sender that sent the request that the adult person (he or she) does not wish to connect at this time due to time constraints. The adult v-Mentor and the youth both can terminate the v-Mentoring relationship at anytime with no explanation. Once an adult v-Mentor is connected with a youth (v-mentee) the youth's photo will appear in the adults "Requested Youth V-Connects" replacing the letter "C"". Note: The photo doesn't have to highlight or grey out because the indicator difference here will be based on; if there is a letter "C" then there is a request for a connection. If there is a youth photo then the inquiry request was accepted hence the full photo replaces the letter "C." An adult (v-Mentor) can decline a request inquiry from a youth. In this instance, that will remove the letter C from the Adult V-Mentors "Requested Youth v-Connects" community and send a auto generated email that goes to the youth's private messages email inbox and to the youth's personal email address that they used to initially sign-up/sign-in with.

The adult account user can scroll to the left and to the right to view various letter C's

representing youth request. Again, the youth photos in this feature section is shown only when a virtual connected has been requested and accepted by the youth (v-Mentee) and the adult (v- Mentor). The youth is represented by the letter C with only their first name on display placed under the letter C of that particular youth.

Located at the bottom of the youth user account profile are the titles of About Us; that talks about who we are as a company, Mobile; for a application of the site. Careers; section for career opportunities with Connectwerks, Privacy; information about a users privacy rights, Terms; information about our site terms and conditions, Affiliates; information where companies can inquiry about becoming an affiliate or business partner, English, Brazil, Deutsch, France, Japanese, and Korean; indicating language translation options of the site. At the very bottom of the youth account profile page is a "lock" icon and the words that read, "Safe, secure, and private. Your account comes with secure SSL encryption for safety"; indicating that the site application is secured by a firewall from internet threats and that all user account information is server secure and confidential.

FIG.7 represents a combined graphical drawing of the auto generated seven digit key code sequence design used and needed to create a private group from a user profile page. The key code sequence is designed in a two numerical digits dash, two numerical digits dash, one numerical digit dash, two numerical digits. To create a private group or sometimes referred to as a closed group this requires an auto generated 7 digit key code in order to activate. Each 7 digit key code will unique with no one key code being the same type in sequence (numerical order). Private groups will be for companies, government agencies, universities, and schools who have the initiative to have their own Connectwerks site application portal on premise or in the cloud that only they have administrator access to at anytime and from anywhere in the world. There is also a user based subscriber fee for this feature section. Prices are dependent on the number of potential users. The profile questions, career module, and educational module.

FIG. 8 shows a preferred process and virtual mentoring social network site application workflow sequence for matching virtual mentees (youth), virtual mentors (adults), virtual peer to peer youth, and virtual peer to peer adults based on gender, age, grade, personality interest; all based on personal and interpersonal attributes designed to match the best probable individuals with one another.

The Y on this form represents a youth. The A represents an adult. The C represents a

company/school/agency/university. This workflow shows the process by which an individual navigates through the site starting with sign-up, sign-in, or is exited from the site application. The site flow chart is an embodiment process of FIGS. 1-7.

The "Connectwerks Landing Page" represents the sign-up/sign-in home page of the site application as shown in FIG. 1.

Y1Q represent the youth 4 years old to 8 years old) potential track 1; profile questions thru profile page build. "Yl" represent the hold spot and either continues on the site or exited from continuing due to the investigative database search to find out if you are a registered sex offender.

Y2Q. represent the youth (ages 9 years old to 20 years old) potential track 2; profile questions thru profile page build. "Y2" represent the hold spot and either continues on the site or exited from continuing due to the investigative database search to find out if you are a registered sex offender. AQ represent the adult (21 years old to 99 years old) potential track 3; profile questions thru profile page build. "A" represents the hold spot and either continues on the site or exited from continuing due to the investigative database search to find out if you are a registered sex offender.

CQ represent a company/agency/school/universrty account private group creation by adult individuals (21 years old to 99 years old) potential track 4; profile questions thru profile page build. "C" represents the hold spot and either continues on the site or exited from continuing due to the investigative database search to find out if you are a registered sex offender. This is also the database area where the image recognition scan for inappropriate nudity and pornography in photos and video takes place to prohibit or allow the uploading process.

The "Connectwerks Analytics Β represents the business intelligence data base that tracks, monitors, surveys, analyze, and reports all of the virtual mentoring data for measuring outcomes, policies, and best practices. Data tracking code is built (coded) on every site page allowing us to track profile activity, events, and to measure outcomes through a manually generated report request in the administrative controls of the site application.

The "Components of a Profile Page" represent a listing of all of the featured components available within the consolidated site application to include YES (Youth Enhancement Strategy) module and the CAS (Career Achievement Strategy) module(s).

On the upper right is "signed in user/members" where individuals that are already members return to the landing page (home page) to sign-in. Once user members sign-in they go straight into their user account profile page. The investigative database search is auto set to scan all user members every 6 months from the date that they became a new member (activated their user account).

FIG. 9 shows a profile questionnaire that consist of 11 questions for individuals of agencies, companies, schools, and universities to determine if they are interested in our site application as a software as a service or interested in our innovative virtual mentoring program modules.

On the top left is the Connectwerks logo with the slogan title; "The world's First V- entoring Social Network" under the logo. To the upper right side is a section to sign-in, input your password, and/or click on "forgot your password" for your password to be auto generated and sent to you. Directly below the words, "Forgot Your Password" is an icon logo button that reads; "Connect Now" designed to send an individual to their account user profile page when clicked on after input of their email and password. There are 11 questions with drop down selections for answers. A person selects their choice answers on all eleven questions and dicks on the lower "connect" icon logo to auto-send via internet answers to the profile questions to the

administrative control of the site application (email inbox) for manual review and a reply. At the bottom of this questionnaire profile are the titles, Mobile; when clicked on it provides you with a mobile application download for your phone. About; talks about Connectwerks as a company, Careers; when clicked-on provides a listing of available jobs at Connectwerks, Privacy; when clicked on provides information about your privacy rights. Terms; when clicked on provides information on the terms and conditions of the site and the account user. The Agency/Company profile is also used to determine if an individual is a good candidate for a private group.

In closure, the virtual mentoring (v-Mentoring) social network site application is original in that there are no other consolidated virtual mentoring social networks or websites that provide the combined functionality as we are providing. Another distinguishes our invention from other inventions similar In form or nature is that we are the only auto matched-based attribute specific virtual mentoring site application that does not require manual mentor and mentee physical in- person interviews potential matching (pairing). We are the only invention that has built in intelligence to do an auto investigative database search for registered sex offenders designed to increase the potential threats of using a social network site to meet people. We are the only virtual mentoring (v-Mentoring) social network site application to use a built in auto generated image recognition scan to check for and prohibit uploading of inappropriate content, nudity, and pornography of videos and photos. We are the only virtual mentoring (v-mentoring) social network site to have a combined consolidated view and use of multiple shared and accessible communication toots to conduct for virtual mentoring anywhere in the world in real-time, delayed time, anytime.

The best mode for carrying the invention is the use of the World Wide Web (Internet) for connectivity and multiple servers for hosting and securing the application site.

Claims

The invention is claimed as follows:

1. A method of auto-generated matched-based virtual mentoring to match gender

specific youth (v-Mentees) with gender specific adults (v-Mentors) and virtual peer to peer adults (v-Connects) and virtual peer to peer youth (v-Pals) world-wide.

2. The method in claim 1 wherein a virtual mentoring sodal network selects individuals under "I Am" Is based on if they are a youth, an adult, or a company/agency/school. "Gender" is for gender specific; meaning, male youth matched to male adults only and female youth matched to female for an auto-generated gender specific and age category match to provide virtual mentoring. And birthday determines specific age matched categories; example, 10 year old males can only be virtual pals with other 10 year old males only and the same business rules for females. Input into the graphical user interface include a section for first name, last name, state, email address, re-enter address, create a password, selecting title of intent, birthday, and gender. ALL of the named attributes determine which client profile questionnaire is assigned for completion and lend to the gender specific match-based virtual matching.

3. A virtual mentoring social network investigative auto-generated database search for registered sex offenders that will prohibit or allow sign-up access to create a youth, adutt, or company user account profile.

4. The method in claim 3 wherein registered sex offenders are placed on hold, screened through a sex offender database and either allowed to continue on the site or denied access to continue and exited from the site if they are discovered to be a registered sex offender within the

United States of America. Investigative registered sex offender intelligence is line code embedded to search a database of registered sex offenders and prohibit registered sex offenders from creating a user account profile and accessing the virtual mentoring web based site.

5. Client Profile customizable youth, adult, and company/agency/schools questionnaires to determine and make a common interest match-based fit for one individual to another individual.

6. The method in claim 5 wherein in users of the site must first answer similar in content questions with a to determine relational match of interest and personalities for a virtual mentoring connection.

7. Only a youth (called a virtual mentee) can initiate the selection of an adult (called a virtual mentor) to engage for a virtual mentoring connection relationship.

8. The method in claim 7 where in a line of code is prohibits adult users from initiating a virtual connection of a youth within the site.

9. Line code that will only allow same birth age and same educational grade of youth only to virtually connect as a user member of the site.

10. Image recognition line code that will prohibit the upload of nude images,

explicit photos, and pornography video to the user profile pages.

11. A consolidated collaborative ail in one format sharing of communicative "soft tools" used to connect one-to-one, one-to-many, and to use for virtual mentoring education and entertainment.

12. The method in claim 11 wherein user account profiles encompass real-time as well as and static collaborative and consolidated communication applications such as private email, music

uploads, music downloads, scheduling calendar, career achievement module, youth

enhancement

module, recordable greeting, video viewing, audio and music play, creating groups; private and open groups, uploading documents, downloading documents, chat, video conferencing, screen sharing, language translation, career and educational strategy modules, and searching.

13. My V-Mentor Connectwerk on the youth user account profile page wherein consist of adults (virtual mentors) photos with the career professional job title under the name of each adult's photo based on the similarities of the answers to the questions provided in the online profile questionnaires.

14. The method in claim 13 is a direct correlation of claim 5 and claim 6 wherein users of the site must first answer similar in context questions to determine a relational match of interest and of personalities for a virtual mentoring connection based on similarities from answers to the questions provided in the adult profile questionnaire

15. V-Pals on the youth user account profile page consist of youth's photos (called virtual pals) with the first name only of individual youth listed under the photo of each individual youth's photo.

16. The method in claim 15 wherein youth users of the same gender, age, and educational grade can request, inquire, select, and connect for a virtual pal relationship. No adults (Virtual Mentors are allowed to access the V-Pal community of the site.

17. YES (Youth Enhancement Strategy) modules on all youth user profiles and are

embedded customizable educational electronic forms.

18. The method in claim 17 wherein is designed to track youth's educational progression and attitude directly from the youth user account profile. (virtual mentors) photos with first and last names listed under the virtual adulf s photo.

20. The method in claim 19 wherein is a direct correlation of claim 5 and daim 6 wherein users of the site must first answer similar in context questions to determine a relational match of interest and of personalities for a virtual mentoring connection based on similarities from answers

to the questions provided in the adult profile questionnaire.

21. Requested Youth V-Connects on the adult user account profile consists of the alphabet letter C with the word "accept" above the letter and the first name only of the youth (v- entee) user that sent an inquiry request to an adult (v-Mentor) is virtually mentored.

22. The method in claim 19 wherein does not allow an adult (v-Mentor) to initiate virtual mentoring with a youth without first a youth user (v-Mentee) sending the adult (v-Mentor) a request inquiry to virtually connect for virtual mentoring. However, a youth (v-Mentee) can initiate virtual mentoring with an adult (v-Mentor).

23. CAS (Career Achievement Strategy) modules are on all adult user profiles and are embedded customizable career electronic forms.

24. The method in claim 23 wherein is designed to track an adult users career progression, career growth, and attitude directly from the adult user account profile.

25. All account user profiles have a Create Groups embedded button.

26. The method in daim 25 wherein is a method by which adult, company, school, and agency users only can build a Private User Group using a auto-generated 7-digit key code only.

27. The Library button on all account user profiles consist of a repository of educational tutorials, website links, web cast, power point presentations, original music, and informative documents open to user members of the virtual social network site.

28. The method in daim 27 wherein allows all account profile users to upload and download informative and materials to the community library for best practices data viewing, sharing and accessing.

29. Connectwerk Analytics gather informative data per day, weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, and annually within the virtual sodal network site such as number of dick through, site visits, virtual connections, reporting of abuse, youth requested accepts & dedines, adult to youth accepts & dedines, private email messages exchanged, music uploads & downloads, number of scheduled appointments, number of scheduled appointments cancelled, state of youth, country of youth, state of adults, country of adults, number of gender of youth and adults, number of ethnic background of youth and adults categorized, number of groups created, number of groups cancelled, types of groups formed, career professions categorized and tallied, number youth virtually connected to a V-Mentor, number of V-Pals virtually connected, number of V-Mentors virtually connected, number of different languages using the site, number of surveys completed, number YES and CES modules completed, total number of account users signed up.

30. The method in claim 29 is a line of code to gather and generate specific detailed virtual mentoring data and outcomes.

31. Youth user account profiles have a "unlocking feature" that will allow youth to unlock a feature function on their user profile page to use the p4 video, the p3 music listening, the voice recorded greeting, creating open groups, use the audio/video chat.

32. The method in claim 31 is a line of code that will detect and automatically unlock for use (tagged) features of the youth's user account profile tools after the youth has a selected number of sign-in's and virtual connections with their v-Mentor (virtual mentor).

33. Company/Agency/ School profile questionnaire will allow an individual of an agency, company, or school to contact us as an inquiry to their interest in our site application and virtual mentoring (v-Mentoring) services.

34. The method in claim 33 is a drop down of predefined choices for selection for individuals to answer and have the answers sent directly to a Connectwerks customer service representative for review and reply of our site application private groups and/or services.