Selective sharing of user information based on contextual relationship information, such as to crowd-source gifts of interest to a recipient
First Claim
1. A machine implemented method for managing crowd-sourced gifting by invitees of an event to a potential gift recipient associated with the event, comprising:
- selecting, by a computing server, a subset of items of interest to the potential gift recipient based on a contextual relation between the potential gift recipient and a first of the invitees of the event;
disclosing, by the computing server, the subset of items within a workspace on a first client computing device of the first invitee of the event as a wish list of items of interest to the potential gift recipient that is tailored based on the contextual relation;
providing, by the computing server, a computer-based market on the computing server to receive items from the workspace on the first client computing device of the first invitee of the event and from workspaces on one or more other client computing devices of one or more other ones of the invitees of the event, and to select a subset of items in the market based on the contextual relation between the potential gift recipient and the first invitee of the event;
providing, by the computing server, a workspace user interface (UI) on the client computing device of the first invitee of the event to permit the first invitee of the event to view contents of the workspace and to permit the first invitee of the event to move items from the workspace on the first client computing device to the market on the computing server; and
providing, by the computing server, a contextual market UI on the client computing device of the first invitee of the event to permit the first invitee of the event to view the subset of items in the market, submit input regarding the subset of items in the market, and elect to contribute toward a crowd-based purchase of an item within the subset of items in the market as a gift to the potential gift recipient.
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Abstract
Selective/controlled disclosure of user information to private workspaces of other users/invitees based on context/contextual relations, and a shared workspace or market to collaborate amongst the other users (e.g., to crowd-source gifts of interest to the recipient). Contextual disclosure may be based on common context or commonality under a set of conditions, such as a topic, which may include known topics of relationships amongst the users and/or undiscovered contexts. As an example, items of interest to each user are identified and clustered, keywords are assigned to the clusters indicative of topics/subjects of interests to the respective users, recipient keywords are compared to keywords of an invitee to identify common keywords as shared interests, and items of interest to the recipient that relate to the common keywords are disclosed to the invitee as a personalized wish-list. Keyword weighting and/or keyword/item level privacy designations may be provided to further control disclosure.
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1. A machine implemented method for managing crowd-sourced gifting by invitees of an event to a potential gift recipient associated with the event, comprising:
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selecting, by a computing server, a subset of items of interest to the potential gift recipient based on a contextual relation between the potential gift recipient and a first of the invitees of the event; disclosing, by the computing server, the subset of items within a workspace on a first client computing device of the first invitee of the event as a wish list of items of interest to the potential gift recipient that is tailored based on the contextual relation; providing, by the computing server, a computer-based market on the computing server to receive items from the workspace on the first client computing device of the first invitee of the event and from workspaces on one or more other client computing devices of one or more other ones of the invitees of the event, and to select a subset of items in the market based on the contextual relation between the potential gift recipient and the first invitee of the event; providing, by the computing server, a workspace user interface (UI) on the client computing device of the first invitee of the event to permit the first invitee of the event to view contents of the workspace and to permit the first invitee of the event to move items from the workspace on the first client computing device to the market on the computing server; and providing, by the computing server, a contextual market UI on the client computing device of the first invitee of the event to permit the first invitee of the event to view the subset of items in the market, submit input regarding the subset of items in the market, and elect to contribute toward a crowd-based purchase of an item within the subset of items in the market as a gift to the potential gift recipient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computing server apparatus for managing crowd-sourced gifting by invitees of an event to a potential gift recipient associated with the event, comprising a processor and memory configured to:
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select a subset of items of interest to the potential gift recipient based on a contextual relation between the potential gift recipient and a first of the invitees of the event; disclose the subset of items within a workspace of a first client computing device of the first invitee of the event as a wish list of items of interest to the potential gift recipient that is tailored based on the contextual relation; provide, on the computing server apparatus, a computer-based market to receive items from the workspace on the first client computing device of the first invitee of the event and from workspaces on one or more other client computing devices of one or more other ones of the invitees of the event, and to select a subset of items in the market based on the contextual relation between the potential gift recipient and the first invitee of the event; provide a workspace user interface (UI) on the first client computing device to permit the first invitee of the event to view contents of the workspace and to permit the first invitee of the event to move items from the workspace on the first client computing device to the market on the computing server apparatus; and provide a contextual market UI on the first client computing device to permit the first invitee of the event to view the subset of items in the market, submit input regarding the subset of items in the market, and elect to contribute toward a crowd-based purchase of an item within the subset of items in the market as a gift to the potential gift recipient. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with a computer program that includes instructions to cause a computing server, in response to execution of the instructions by the computing server, to:
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select a subset of items of interest to a potential gift recipient associated with an event based on a contextual relation between the potential gift recipient and a first of a plurality of invitees of the event; disclose the subset of items within a workspace of a first client computing device of the first invitee of the event as a wish list of items of interest to the potential gift recipient that is tailored based on the contextual relation; provide a computer-based market on the computing server to receive items from the workspace on the first client computing device of the first invitee of the event and from workspaces of one or more other client computing devices of one or more other invitees of the event, and to select a subset of items in the market based on the contextual relation between the potential gift recipient and the first invitee of the event; provide a workspace user interface (UI) on the first client computing device to permit the first invitee of the event to view contents of the workspace and to permit the first invitee of the event to move items from the workspace on the first client computing device to the market on the computing server; and provide a contextual market UI on the first client computing device to permit the first invitee of the event to view the subset of items in the market, submit input regarding the subset of items in the market, and elect to contribute toward a crowd-based purchase of an item within the subset of items in the market as a gift to the potential gift recipient. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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