Methods for encouraging charitable social networking
First Claim
1. A method of encouraging charitable donations by individuals who are members of a social network, comprising:
- allowing a user to create a member account by supplying user identity data from the user;
allowing a user to create a campaign, wherein the created campaign is associated with one or more charities and a goal;
allowing the user to send an invitation to one or more members or non-members;
allowing the one or more members or non-members to accept or decline the user'"'"'s invitation, wherein the one or more non-members create a member account in order to accept or decline the user'"'"'s invitation;
allowing the one or more members the option to donate any amount of money to a charity to post comments about the user, wherein the monetary value of the donation is associated with the comments posted such that a higher amount donated represents a higher trustworthiness of the comments;
allowing the one or more members or non-members to support the campaign by donating money to the one or more charities; and
calculating one or more user weight values based at least on a total volume of members or non-members who support the campaign by donating money to the one or more charities, wherein the one or more user weight values represent reliability of a user'"'"'s reputation.
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Abstract
A method of encouraging charitable donations by individuals who are members of a social network is disclosed. A user creates a member account by supplying user identity data from the user and creates a campaign, wherein the created campaign is associated with one or more charities and a financial goal. The user sends invitation to one or more members or non-members and the one or more members or non-members may accept or decline the user'"'"'s invitation. The one or more members are given the option to donate any amount of money to a charity to post comments about the user, where the monetary value of the donation is associated with the comments posted such that a higher amount donated represents a higher trustworthiness of the comments. The one or more members or non-members may support the campaign by donating money to the one or more charities to help reach the financial goal. One or more user weight values are calculated based at least on a total volume of members or non-members who support the campaign by donating money to the one or more charities and/or a total monetary value of the money donated by the one or more members or non-members, where the one or more user weight values represent reliability of a user'"'"'s reputation.
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26 Claims
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1. A method of encouraging charitable donations by individuals who are members of a social network, comprising:
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allowing a user to create a member account by supplying user identity data from the user; allowing a user to create a campaign, wherein the created campaign is associated with one or more charities and a goal; allowing the user to send an invitation to one or more members or non-members; allowing the one or more members or non-members to accept or decline the user'"'"'s invitation, wherein the one or more non-members create a member account in order to accept or decline the user'"'"'s invitation; allowing the one or more members the option to donate any amount of money to a charity to post comments about the user, wherein the monetary value of the donation is associated with the comments posted such that a higher amount donated represents a higher trustworthiness of the comments; allowing the one or more members or non-members to support the campaign by donating money to the one or more charities; and calculating one or more user weight values based at least on a total volume of members or non-members who support the campaign by donating money to the one or more charities, wherein the one or more user weight values represent reliability of a user'"'"'s reputation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of encouraging charitable donations by individuals who are members of a social network, comprising:
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allowing a user to create a member account by supplying user identity data from the user; allowing a user to create a campaign, wherein the created campaign is associated with one or more charities and a financial goal; allowing the user to send an invitation to one or more members or non-members; allowing the one or more members or non-members to accept or decline the user'"'"'s invitation, wherein the one or more non-members create a member account in order to accept or decline the user'"'"'s invitation; allowing the one or more members the option to donate any amount of money to a charity to post comments about the user, wherein the monetary value of the donation is associated with the comments posted such that a higher amount donated represents a higher trustworthiness of the comments; allowing the one or more members or non-members to support the campaign by donating money to the one or more charities to help reach the financial goal; and calculating one or more user weight values based at least on a total value of the money donated by the one or more members or non-members, wherein the one or more user weight values represent reliability of a user'"'"'s reputation. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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8. A method for encouraging charitable donations through a social network, comprising:
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allowing a user of the social network to form a group, wherein the group is associated with a message board; allowing the user the option to donate any amount of money to one or more charities to post a message to the group message board; allowing one or more members or non-members to the option to donate any amount of money to one or more charities to post a reply to the message; and calculating one or more user weight values based at least on a total monetary value associated with the posted message and one or more posted replies, wherein the one or more user weight values represent reliability of a user'"'"'s reputation. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for encouraging charitable donations through a social network, comprising:
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allowing a user to create a group, wherein the created group is associated with one or more charities through one or more campaigns; allowing the user to send an invitation to one or more members or non-members to join the group and to donate money to one or more charities through the one or more campaigns; allowing the one or more invited members or non-members to join the group and to donate money to one or more charities through the one or more campaigns; and calculating a group weight value based at least on a total monetary value of money donated to the one or more charities through the one or more campaigns by all of the members or non-members of the group. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for encouraging charitable donations through a social network, comprising:
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allowing a user to create a group, wherein the created group is associated with one or more charities through one or more campaigns; allowing one or more members or non-members to join the group and to donate money to one or more charities through the one or more campaigns; and calculating a group weight value based at least on a total monetary value of money donated to the one or more charities through the one or more campaigns by all of the members or non-members of the group.
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21. A method for encouraging charitable donations through a social network, comprising:
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providing an online social network for users to obtain information about other users; allowing a user to become a member of the online social network; allowing the user to create a user profile containing information about the user; allowing one or more different users of the online social network to view the user profile; allowing one or more institutions to verify the information about the user contained in the user profile; calculating an entity weight value for the institution based on a number of times that the institution has verified user information, whereby a higher entity weight value indicates a higher reliability of the institution.
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