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Contact information exchanging and content system and method for networking and marketing

  • US 10,560,560 B2
  • Filed: 07/31/2017
  • Issued: 02/11/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A contact information exchanging and content system for networking comprising:

  • smart devices for target users and client users, that operate target user devices and client user devices, respectively, a target user being desirous of establishing a store of contact information on a smart device and desirous of receiving content from a client user, and the client user being a user desirous of propagating and distributing the content;

    each of the target user devices and the client user devices having;

    a user interface for communicating with an operator of the smart device, a network interface for communicating with a computer network, a processor for operating an application, and a store;

    a server including an engine and a database; and

    a beacon device associated with a client user, the beacon device having a beacon protocol including a network identifier unique to the system and beacon identifiers unique to the beacon device that are broadcast within a range of the beacon device to a responding target user device having the application entering the range and selectively cause contact information or content or both contact information and content to be pushed to the responding target user device;

    the store of the target user device being designed to store;

    (i) contact information related to a target user of the target user device;

    (ii) contact information of other target user devices having the application; and

    (iii) selectively received pushed content;

    the application of the target user device having;

    (a) contact functionality to;

    (i) generate and store the contact information related to the target user of the target user device via the user interface of the target user device;

    (ii) receive and store contact information of another target user via the network interface; and

    (iii) communicate the contact information related to the target user of the target user device via the network interface to the server for processing by the engine to form a contact information data file and store the contact information data file in the database; and

    (b) content functionality to;

    (i) selectively receive beacon identifiers;

    (ii) selectively receive and store content pushed to the target user device upon receipt of the selected beacon identifiers; and

    (iii) communicate the stored content via the network interface to the server for processing by the engine to form a content data file and store the content data file in the database;

    the application of the client user device having functionality to;

    (i) generate client content for receipt by the target user device via the server; and

    (ii) communicate the client content via the network interface to the server for processing by the engine to form a content data file and store the content data file in the database;

    all user devices, client devices and beacon devices associated with the network constituting network clients and each being assigned the network identifier to indicate when communicating to each other and the server that they belong to the network;

    the engine being programmed, based on a selection at the user interface of the target user device of a beacon device for assignment to a type of content to be received at the target user device, to;

    (i) receive the network identifier from network clients and also target user identifiers, client user identifiers and beacon identifiers to identify respective target users, client users and beacon devices associated with the network and establish communication therewith according to the particular functionality being invoked and store these within corresponding data files within the database;

    (ii) receive the target user contact information and client content from the network interface and respectively process same to form corresponding data files that include a contact information data file and a content data file and securely store the corresponding data files in the database;

    (iii) based on editing of at least content associated with the beacon device at the user interface of the target user device for assignment to the type of content to be received at the user interface, selectively cause;

    (a) stored contact information associated with the target user of the target user device in respect of which a target user identifier is received to be accessed from the corresponding data file within the database and downloaded to the target user device; and

    (b) stored content associated with the client target in respect of which beacon identifiers are received in conjunction with a target user identifier to be pushed and downloaded to the target user device associated with the target user identifier from the corresponding data file within the database; and

    (iv) based on editing of at least contact information associated with the client user at the user interface of the client user device for assignment to all beacon devices associated with the client user, selectively cause stored contact information associated with the client user of the client user device to be accessed within the corresponding data file within the database and stored in all beacon devices having a beacon identifier asserted and associated with the client user.

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