Neighborhood bartering in a geo-spatial network

• US 20080319778A1
• Filed: 06/22/2007
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fatdoor Incorporated
• Inventors: Abhyanker, Raj Vasant
• Application Number:
  US11/821,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20080319778A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and system of neighborhood bartering in a geo-spatial network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a plurality of user profiles, each user profile to include an associated specific geographic location, associating a first user with a first user profile, providing a plurality of item profiles, each item profile associated with a user profile, selecting an item profile from the plurality of item profiles, and generating an item transaction, between the first user profile and a second user profile associated with the selected item profile, based on at least one of the specific geographic location associated with the first user profile and the specific geographic location associated with the second user profile.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing a plurality of user profiles, each user profile in the plurality of user profiles to include an associated specific geographic location;

associating a first user with a first user profile in the plurality of user profiles;

providing a plurality of item profiles, each item profile of the item profiles associated with a user profile in the plurality of user profiles;

selecting an item profile from the plurality of item profiles; and

generating an item transaction, between the first user profile and a second user profile associated with the selected item profile, based on at least one of the specific geographic location associated with the first user profile and the specific geographic location associated with the second user profile.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating an item transaction display representing the item transaction as a marker in a three-dimensional map view;

simultaneously representing other user profiles adjacent to the marker; and

placing the marker in a geographic location associated with the second user profile.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the item transaction comprises a monetary donation transaction.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the monetary donation transaction comprises:

forming a giving group including members, each member associated with a user profile in the plurality of user profiles; and

generating monetary donations associated with the giving group.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the monetary donation transaction further comprises:

establishing a monetary donation campaign including a monetary donation target;

accumulating monetary donations associated with the monetary donation campaign;

calculating a total of accumulated monetary donations;

comparing the total of accumulated monetary donations to the monetary donation target; and

determining an amount of monetary donations to be collected based on the comparison of the total of accumulated monetary donations and the monetary donation target.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the item transaction comprises a service needs transaction.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the service needs transaction comprises:

generating a list of service needs; and

locating a service matching a service need of the list of service needs.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the item transaction comprises a goods donation transaction.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the goods donation transaction comprises:

selecting a donor group; and

offering goods to the donor group.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the goods donation transaction further comprises scheduling a pickup of the goods offered to the donor group.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the item transaction comprises a search for items transaction.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the item transaction comprises an exchange goods and services transaction.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the exchange goods and services transaction comprises a classified advertisements transaction.

14. The method of claim 1 in a form of a machine-readable medium embodying a set of instructions that, when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform the method of claim 1.

15. A system, comprising:

a geographic community environment;

a community network module of the geographic community environment, the community network module to include user profiles, each user profile of the user profiles to include an associated specific geographic location;

a map module to include map data of the specific geographic location of each user profile of the user profiles;

an item module to include item profiles, each item profile of the item profiles associated with a user profile of the user profiles;

a selection module to select an item profile of the item profiles; and

a transaction module to generate an item transaction associated with the specific geographic location of the user profile associated with the selected item profile.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising a display module to display information associated with the item transaction.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising a webpage module to generate a webpage associated with the item transaction.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising a wiki profile module to generate, with the webpage, at least one wiki profile associated with the webpage.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising an append module to generate, with the at least one wiki profile, content associated with the at least one wiki profile.

20. The system of claim 15, further comprising a monetary donation module to generate a monetary donation transaction.

21. The system of claim 15, further comprising a service needs module to generate a service needs transaction.

22. The system of claim 15, further comprising a goods donation module to generate a goods donation transaction.

23. The system of claim 15, further comprising a search for items module to generate a search for items transaction.

24. The system of claim 15, further comprising an exchange goods and services module to generate an exchange goods and services transaction.

25. The system of claim 24, further comprising a classified advertisements module to generate classified advertisements.

26. A geographic community environment, comprising:

a first instruction set to enable a community network, to include a user database to include user profiles, each user profile to include an associated geographic location, and an item database to include item profiles, each item profile associated with a user profile of the user profiles, the community network associated with map data, in which the community network is associated with specific geographic locations identifiable in the map data;

a second instruction set integrated with the first instruction set to select an item profile of the item profiles; and

a third instruction set integrated with the first instruction set and the second instruction set to generate an item transaction between a first user profile of the user profiles and a second user profile associated with the selected item profile of the item profiles.

27. The geographic community environment of claim 26, further comprising:

a fourth instruction set integrated with the first instruction set and the second instruction set and the third instruction set to generate an item transaction display to represent the item transaction as a marker in a three-dimensional map view and to simultaneously represent other user profiles adjacent to the marker and to place the marker in the geographic location associated with the second user profile associated with the selected item profile.