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System and method for providing a gift exchange

  • US 10,580,056 B2
  • Filed: 03/30/2015
  • Issued: 03/03/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method being implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at one or more non-transitory computer-readable media, the method comprising:

  • providing a gift exchange software application (“

    app”

    ) configured to initiate a gift exchange among a set of participants comprising a menu and first trust graph information of a first respective participant of the set of participants, wherein the menu is configured to allow the first respective participant access to the first trust graph information of a first trust graph of the first respective participant from a server, without launching the first trust graph information on a mobile computing device of the first respective participant, and to select a gift exchange recipient from one or more trusted users of the first trust graph of the first respective participant for the gift exchange based at least in part on a level of trust the first respective participant has for the gift exchange recipient;

    receiving the first trust graph information from the mobile computing device of the first respective participant;

    transforming the first trust graph information into the first trust graph of the first respective participant to be retrieved from a trust database;

    receiving at least two parameters for the gift exchange from an organizer of the gift exchange, wherein the at least two parameters comprise the set of participants and a budget;

    displaying the menu on a user interface of the mobile computing device of the first respective participant, wherein a particular gift exchange recipient is selected from the one or more trusted users of the first trust graph of the first respective participant while the first trust graph information remains in an un-launched state;

    identifying the particular gift exchange recipient for the first respective participant in the set of participants;

    upon selection of the particular gift exchange recipient, accessing a second trust graph of the particular gift exchange recipient to determine one or more gifts for the particular gift exchange recipient, as identified, based at least in part on the budget and the second trust graph of the particular gift exchange recipient; and

    arranging for display on the user interface of the mobile computing device of the first respective participant the one or more gifts, as determined, for the particular gift exchange recipient;

    wherein;

    the first trust graph of the first respective participant comprises at least one level of trust associated with the particular gift exchange recipient.

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