Business reviews claiming in a geo-spatial environment

• US 20090061883A1
• Filed: 08/30/2007
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fatdoor Incorporated
• Inventors: Abhyanker, Raj
• Application Number:
  US11/897,908
• Publication Number:
  US 20090061883A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/445
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A method, system and apparatus of business reviews claiming in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a community network of user profiles, each user profile to include an associated specific geographic location, at least a portion of the specific geographic locations associated with a business and/or a residence, associating a first user with a first user profile having a specific geographic location associated with a business, claiming the first user profile (e.g., may include verifying an email address, a business license, and/or a utility bill), and generating a promotion-related activity associated with the first user profile and the business.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

generating a community network of user profiles, each user profile of the user profiles to include an associated specific geographic location, at least a portion of the specific geographic locations associated with at least one of a business and a residence;

associating a first user with a first user profile of the user profiles having a specific geographic location associated with the business;

claiming the first user profile of the user profiles; and

generating a promotion-related activity associated with the first user profile of the user profiles and the business.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the claiming the first user profile of the user profiles includes verifying at least one of an email address, a business license, and a utility bill.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the promotion-related activity includes at least one of:

selectively displaying at least one review of reviews associated with the business;

permitting selective display of at least one review of the reviews associated with the business upon a payment transaction;

incorporating a website associated with the business into the first user profile of the user profiles;

generating an online transaction associated with the business;

generating an advertisement associated with the first user profile of the user profiles;

displaying the first user profile of the user profiles in conjunction with a wiki profile;

generating content associated with the wiki profile;

generating a poll associated with the business;

generating a list of groups seeking sponsorship; and

displaying the first user profile of the user profiles in conjunction with a list of groups sponsored by the business.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the website includes at least one of a web page and a link associated with the business.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the online transaction includes:

reserving at least one of a product and a service associated with the business;

ordering at least one of the product and the service associated with the business; and

generating an online payment transaction associated with the business.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the generating an advertisement includes at least one of:

displaying an online advertisement;

generating a printed publication;

generating a printed publication from the online advertisement;

generating an advertisement based on a predetermined criterion associated with a second user profile of the user profiles; and

generating a display view of the first user profile of the user profiles and the advertisement, the display view associated with the second user profile of the user profiles.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the printed publication comprises at least one of a coupon, a flyer, and a post card.

8. 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.

9. 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, at least a portion of the specific geographic locations associated with at least one of a business and a residence;

a map module of the geographic community environment to include map data which serve as a basis to render a three-dimensional map view which identifies at least some physical structures having specific geographic locations;

a claim module of the geographic community environment to claim a first user profile of the user profiles having a specific geographic location associated with a business;

a display module of the geographic community environment to generate a display view of the three-dimensional map view embodied by the community network and the first user profile of the user profiles represented at a location in the three-dimensional map view associated with the specific geographic location of the first user profile of the user profiles; and

a transaction module of the geographic community environment to generate a promotion-related activity associated with the first user profile of the user profiles and the business.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising a review control module of the geographic community environment to control the display of at least one review of reviews associated with the business.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising a payment module of the geographic community environment to permit selective control over display of the at least one review of the reviews associated with the business upon a payment transaction.

12. The system of claim 9, further comprising a website module of the geographic community environment to incorporate a website associated with the business into the first user profile of the user profiles, wherein the website includes a display of at least one of a web page and a link associated with the business.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the website module comprises at least one of:

a reservation transaction to generate a reservation associated with at least one of a product and a service associated with the business;

an order transaction to order at least one of the product and the service associated with the business; and

an online payment transaction associated with the business.

14. The system of claim 9, further comprising an advertisement module of the geographic community environment to generate an advertisement associated with the first user profile of the user profiles.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the advertisement comprises at least one of:

an online advertisement display;

a printed publication; and

a printed publication generated from an online advertisement.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the printed publication comprises at least one a coupon, a flyer, and a post card.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the advertisement module further comprises an advertisement, based on a predetermined criterion associated with a second user profile of the user profiles, displayed in conjunction with the first user profile of the user profiles.

18. The system of claim 9, further comprising a poll module of the geographic community environment to generate a poll associated with the business.

19. The system of claim 9, further comprising a sponsorship module of the geographic community environment to generate a list of groups seeking sponsorship and to display the first user profile of the user profiles in conjunction with a list of groups sponsored by the business.

20. The system of claim 9, further comprising a wiki profile module of the geographic community environment to generate in a display view, at least one of a wiki profile associated with a user profile of the user profiles and content associated with the wiki profile.

21. The system of claim 9, wherein the claim module further verifies a proof of business ownership.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the proof of business ownership includes at least one of an email address, a business license, and a utility bill.

23. A geographic community environment, comprising:

a first instruction set to enable a community network, to include a user database to include 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 and at least a portion of the specific geographic locations associated with at least one of a business and a residence;

a second instruction set integrated with the first instruction set to claim a user profile of the user profiles having a specific geographic location associated with a business; and

a third instruction set integrated with the first instruction set and the second instruction set to generate a promotion-related activity associated with the user profile of the user profiles and the business.

24. The geographic community environment of claim 23, further comprising:

a fourth instruction set integrated with the first instruction set, the second instruction set and the third instruction set to selectively display in conjunction with the user profile of the user profiles at least one review of reviews associated with the business.