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Communication system and server facilitating message exchange and related methods

  • US 10,332,085 B2
  • Filed: 10/11/2016
  • Issued: 06/25/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A communication system comprising:

  • a server comprising a processor and memory associated therewith; and

    first and second communications devices respectively associated with first and second users, each of said first and second communications devices comprising a processor and memory associated therewith;

    said server configured tomaintain a database for a social media network, the database comprising first and second communication profiles respectively associated with the first and second users,maintain first and second value accounts respectively associated with the first and second communication profiles,generate a public opportunity database, andpost a given opportunity from the second user on the public opportunity database;

    each of said first and second communication profiles comprising an actual email address, a masked email address, at least one communication preference value, and a friends list comprising a plurality of friended communication profiles;

    when the first user and the second user are not friends within the social media network, said first communications device configured to send a message from the actual email address of the first user to the masked email address of the second user of said second communications device via said server, the message being associated with the given opportunity and including an offer of a transaction value for a communication between the first and second users, the communication being associated with the given opportunity;

    when the first user and the second user are not friends within the social media network, said server configured toprocess the message from the first user,debit the transaction value from the first value account,convert the message to be from the masked email address of the first user and send the converted message to the actual email address of the second user, andwhen receiving an acceptance message from the second user in reply to the converted message, thenfacilitate the communication between the first and second users as a blind digital conference, the communication being associated with the given opportunity, andtransfer the debited transaction value to the second value account of the second user;

    when the first user and the second user are friends within the social media network, said first communications device configured to send a broadcast message to all users in a respective friends list of the first communication profile, the respective friends list including the second user, the broadcast message including the offer for the communication with a non-friended user, the second user to forward the broadcast message to the non-friended user in a friends list associated with the second user; and

    when the first user and the second user are friends within the social media network, said server configured to when receiving another acceptance message from the non-friended user in reply to the broadcast message, thenprovide the communication as the blind digital conference between the first user and the non-friended user, andtransfer the transaction value corresponding to the offer for the communication with the non-friended user to a value account of the non-friended user.

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