Professional Contact Information Provider and Networking Tool
First Claim
1. A system maintained on a remote server accessed by personal computers via the World Wide Web. The system consists of a compilation of users'"'"' ‘
- provider vehicles’ and
‘
viewer vehicles.’
In this system a ‘
provider vehicle’
consists of user-provided professional and personal contact information;
a ‘
viewer vehicle’
is a privacy filter configured by a user and served to other users. Each user has an allotted amount of memory, or “
space,”
on a remote server where his/her “
provider vehicle” and
“
viewer vehicles”
are stored.
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Abstract
The invention is a computer-network based mechanism and interface which can be used by professionals to provide to personal and professional contacts their most up-to-date contact information; and secondarily, systems to facilitate upkeep of business relationships as well as to catalyze the making of new ones. The invention provides a user with space on a remote server (accessible via the World Wide Web) to store their professional and personal contact information (‘provider vehicle’). A user can then serve to other users (accessing the remote server via the World Wide Web) the content he/she has uploaded to the remote server, by providing them with pre-determined access rights (‘viewer vehicle’). The invention stores in the user'"'"'s allotted remote server space, a record of the “viewer vehicles” and “provider vehicles” that have been served to that user by other users of the system. The invention also allows the user to manually amend information to this record and have it saved on the user'"'"'s allotted memory on the remote server.
In addition, the invention provides a method for a user to be reminded at a user-defined interval to upkeep a professional or personal relationship. The invention provides a mechanism for users to append information to the “viewer vehicles” with which they are served and store the information on their allotted space on the remote serve. Finally, the invention includes a system (‘network builder’) which aggregates information which users have entered into a ‘network builder’ system, finds similarities, and then serves users notice of potential professionally or personally useful contacts.
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12 Claims
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1. A system maintained on a remote server accessed by personal computers via the World Wide Web. The system consists of a compilation of users'"'"' ‘
- provider vehicles’ and
‘
viewer vehicles.’
In this system a ‘
provider vehicle’
consists of user-provided professional and personal contact information;
a ‘
viewer vehicle’
is a privacy filter configured by a user and served to other users. Each user has an allotted amount of memory, or “
space,”
on a remote server where his/her “
provider vehicle” and
“
viewer vehicles”
are stored. - View Dependent Claims (2)
- provider vehicles’ and
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3. A system such as the one described in claim 3, in which a user'"'"'s ‘
- provider vehicle’
can consist of professional and personal user defined contact information;
the ‘
provider vehicle’
can then be served to other system users when associated with a user assigned ‘
viewer vehicle.’
- View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
- provider vehicle’
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