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Patent
H - Electricity
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H04L 12/16 (2006.01) G06F 17/60 (2000.01)
Patent
CA 2483341
The present invention discloses methods, systems, and program code that enable a nonprofit organization to manage its fundraising activities online. Disclosed are methods and systems for providing online hosting of fundraising auctions, and auction services such as maintaining donor/bidder registries, bid tracking, processing credit cards, and auction closeout activities. According to one aspect of the invention, an event scheduler automatically calculates a plurality of event milestones both before and after the events. The user to enter. Based on a designated date for either a physical or virtual auction, the event scheduler 1) creates a series of tasks, such as auction announcement, auction RSVP, first catalog publication, etc.; 2) suggests dates by which those tasks should be completed; and 3) sends alerts in the form of automatically generated~ emails notifying the auction committee in advance of the completion date for each task so that action can be taken to send the communications out to constituency up. According to another aspect of the invention, if a task is not completed within a predetermined threshold of the milestone date, the system offers one or more recommendations helpful in completing the task. According to another aspect of the invention, a user may design the look and feel of the auction from a selection of one or more auction templates or from an auction template previously populated with user defined parameters.
Maib Carl
Mchale Gregory Charles
Cmarket Inc.
Norton Rose Or S.e.n.c.r.l. S.r.l./llp
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