Method and system for marketplace social proxies
First Claim
1. A method of providing an electronic environment for facilitating user interaction with a business comprising the steps of:
- displaying an abstract graphical proxy for the environment;
displaying an abstract graphical proxy for at least one consumer within the environment; and
providing the consumer with interactive business facilities.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for providing an electronic environment for facilitating user interaction with a business. The method displays an abstract graphical proxy for the environment, displays an abstract graphical proxy for at least one consumer within the environment, and provides the consumer with interactive business facilities. The environment is a marketplace structured by the business. The environment includes a chat application. The chat application includes one of private chat and public chat. The environment comprises interactive applets. Each consumer proxy is individualized according to consumer input or each consumer proxy is individualized according to consumer activity.
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23 Claims
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1. A method of providing an electronic environment for facilitating user interaction with a business comprising the steps of:
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displaying an abstract graphical proxy for the environment;
displaying an abstract graphical proxy for at least one consumer within the environment; and
providing the consumer with interactive business facilities. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method comprising the steps of:
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representing a social proxy in an abstract graphical display of a marketplace for facilitating consumer interaction;
p1 defining a consumer proxy of a consumer, the consumer proxy having updatable variables;
displaying the consumer proxy within the abstract graphical display of the marketplace; and
updating the consumer proxy variables periodically. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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19. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable be the machine to perform method steps for facilitating the presentation of an marketplace environment in graphical form the method steps comprising:
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displaying an abstract graphical proxy for the environment;
displaying an abstract graphical proxy for at least one consumer within the environment; and
providing the consumer with interactive business facilities.
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