COLLABORATIVE MATCH MAKING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH A PER-PROFILE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PURCHASE OPTION

• US 20110178881A1
• Filed: 01/15/2011
• Published: 07/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pulletikurty Ravi Kumar Pulletikurty
• Original Assignee: Pulletikurty Ravi Kumar Pulletikurty
• Inventors: PULLETIKURTY, PULLETIKURTY RAVI KUMAR
• Application Number:
  US13/007,607
• Publication Number:
  US 20110178881A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.73
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions

Abstract

A system and method to collaborate and/or consolidate and display the paid, active profiles data (including optionally related social data from social system[s]) but barring confidential information of paid, active profiles, of one or more participating match making brokers to local and remote users/customers soliciting match making brokerage service. Moreover, the system comprises one or more servers (103) connected to a network (102), which processes the business logic, and one of more data stores (104) for storing persistent data related to match making profiles and related information. The method comprises the steps where in an unregistered/registered end user (101) looking for match making brokerage service uses the above defined system to view one or more prospective paid, active profiles data and optionally purchase their confidential information without having to mandatorily enroll in a paid membership that provides match making brokerage service for a specific period of time.

Claims

1. A System to collaborate and/or consolidate and display Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) data (including optionally social data of PAP members from one or more social systems) but barring confidential information of PAPs, of one or more Participating Match Making Brokers (MMBs) to local and remote end users/customers soliciting match making brokerage service who can then view one or more prospective PAPs data and optionally purchase their confidential information without having to mandatorily enroll in a paid membership that provides match making brokerage service for a specific period of time (example:

1 month membership, 3 months membership, etc.), wherein the PAP data and social data of PAP members are displayed based on pre-defined privacy settings set by the PAP members.

2. The Paid Active Profile (PAP) members accessing the system of claim 1 can specify which of the following end user categories can view their profiles and photos as well as have the ability to purchase their confidential info.

a. Unregistered User (Anonymous end user)

b. Registered User Without a Profile

c. Registered User With a Profile

3. Based on the privacy settings set by PAP members, anonymous end users can purchase confidential info of PAPs in system of claim 1 “

without having to ‘

register’

/‘

log’

into the system”

. However Anonymous end users can only purchase confidential info of those Paid Active Profile members who have agreed to show their profile to unregistered users and agreed to sell their confidential info to unregistered users.

4. Based on the privacy settings set by PAP members, a buying filter(s) can be set by PAP member in system of claim 1 to allow only ‘

Registered User With a Profile’

category end users who match the PAP member'"'"'s partner preferences such as age range, religion, education list, complexion list, height range, etc., to purchase his/her confidential info.

5. Based on the privacy settings set by PAP members, end users accessing the system of claim 1 can request a prospective PAP member to show his/her photo. The PAP member can either accept/deny this ‘

view photo’

request. If the PAP member accepts this ‘

view photo’

request, the hidden-photos are revealed to end user either through email or through unique photo unlock password that only works from his login session.

6. The local and remote end users/customers accessing the system of claim 1 can upload their profiles to the system for free and then pay a fee for listing them alongside other Paid Active Profiles on the system for a specific period of time.

7. The local and remote end users/customers accessing the system of claim 1 can pay and enroll in one or more of the advertised paid membership schemes of Participating Match Making Brokers (MMBs) that provide brokerage service for a specific period of time. These advertised paid membership schemes provide the local and remote end users/customers the benefit to view on the system, the confidential information of some or all of prospective Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) of only their subscribed match making broker(s) throughout their paid membership period at no extra cost.

8. The local and remote end users/customers accessing the system of claim 1 and participating in one or more of the advertised paid membership schemes of Participating Match Making Brokers (MMBs) that provide brokerage service for a specific period of time will require uploading their profile for free for listing their profile alongside other Paid Active Profiles on the system if and only if their profiles are not already present in the system data store or if their profiles are not active in the system data store.

9. If the local and remote end user/customer accessing the system of claim 1 happen to be already a paid, active member of the Participating Match Making Broker (MMB), he/she can upon approval of his/her MMB, at no cost or for a fee, for the duration of his/her MMB'"'"'s membership, view the confidential information of some or all of prospective Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) of only his/her MMB listed on the system.

10. The local and remote end users/customers accessing the system of claim 1 will have the ability to save prospective Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) to their ‘

Favorite Profiles’

listing once they are registered as users on the system. They can then access this listing and modify it in their next session(s)/visit(s) to the system.

11. The system of claim 1 contains a purchase refund policy to address the grievances of system customers complaining of inaccurate or changed dynamic data of their purchased profile. The dynamic data of the profile include but not limited to ‘

seeking status’ and

‘

Confidential Information’

of the profile. So if a customer of system of claim 1 has made a claim for refund of money citing incorrect or changed dynamic data of his/her purchased profile, then his/her claim will be honored only if it is filed within the specified period of days from the purchase date.

12. The system of claim 1 allows Participating Match Making Broker (MMB) to hide, change or reveal its identity for local and remote end users/customers accessing the system of claim 1. Some MMBs wish to hide or change their identity fearing that their customer base can shrink due to overt participation in system of claim 1. For these MMBs who wish to hide their identity, the MMB identity is shown as ‘

anonymous’

when showing their PAPs or advertised paid membership scheme(s) on system of claim 1. For those MMBs who wish to display a identity different from their true identity, the changed MMB identity is shown when showing their PAPs or advertised paid membership scheme(s) on system of claim 1. For all other MMBs, their true identity is shown when showing their PAPs or advertised paid membership scheme(s) on system of claim 1.

13. The system of claim 1 allows duplicate Paid Active Profiles (PAPs). If more than one participating Match Making Broker has uploaded/shared the same Paid Active Profile on the system, then all such repeated Paid Active Profiles will be displayed without filtration on the system of claim 1.

14. The system of claim 1 allows participating Match Making Brokers (MMBs) to each price their uploaded, individual Paid Active Profiles (PAPs), including duplicate Paid Active Profiles (PAPs), differently on the system of claim 1 with/without intervention by the system owner(s). Thus the system of claim 1 acts as an Auction Portal System for sellers where the system customers can view Paid Active Profiles (PAPs), including duplicate Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) with different prices on system.

15. The Participating Match Making Brokers (MMBs) accessing the system of claim 1 can enter their match making events details into the Shared Events System Calendar of the system and can request their members and optionally non-members accessing the system to participate in these events either for fee or for free, thus creating a competition between MMBs to create more and better events.

16. The local and remote end users/customers accessing the system of claim 1 can see list of all events of all Participating Match Making Brokers (MMBs) on the Shared Events System Calendar of the system.

17. The system of claim 1 monitors the membership status of all Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) on the system and ensures that only the ‘

paid’ and

‘

active’

Profiles are displayed at all times on the system, or in other words those Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) of either the Participating Match Making Brokers (MMBs) or the system that have their paid membership duration expired or have their ‘

seeking status’

changed from ‘

Active’

are denied from being displayed on the system. This process thus provides auto-archival of Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) on the system of claim 1.

18. The system of claim 1 uses optional “

upselling”

in the Per-Profile Confidential Information (PPCI) purchasing scenarios, Bulk Profiles Confidential Information (PPCI) purchasing scenarios and Participating MMBs'"'"' Advertised Membership Schemes purchasing scenarios to sell more Paid Active Profiles and/or advertised memberships to the local and remote end users/customers of the system.

19. The system of claim 1 identifies Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) that are most purchased till date and/or most recently purchased and lists these Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) in top of the listing of Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) so that the local and remote end user/customer will always see a rich listing of Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) on the system of claim 1. This process thus provides auto-listing of highly purchasable Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) on the system of claim 1.

20. The Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) of Participating Match Making Brokers (MMBs) are scrutinized and filtered for salability and other factors by the owners of the system of claim 1 before being uploaded/shared on the system of claim 1. This scrutiny process will be done even though the Participating Match Making Brokers (MMBs) upload/share their most sellable Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) to the system of claim 1 with an intent to make most money in return for their time spent to upload/share these profiles. This process thus provides auto-listing of highly purchasable Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) on the system of claim 1.

21. The system of claim 1 includes a ‘

portal system promotion’

functionality that reveals for free, for every specific period of time, the confidential information of specific number of randomly-chosen Paid Active Profiles picked from its total data store to registered members of system of claim 1. The randomization function will ensure that revealed Paid Active Profiles will not be picked up again till defined time period to show for free for registered members of system of claim 1. The communication means that will be used to reveal confidential information of these Paid Active Profiles include but not limited to email, telephone, postal mail, system of claim 1, etc.

22. The system of claim 1 validates the ‘

confidential information’ and

‘

seeking status’

of some random profiles or all profiles present in total data store of system of claim 1 (which includes but not limited to participating MMBs data stores, Uploaded n Paid Profiles data store, “

Participating MMBs'"'"' Advertised Membership Schemes Enrolled Members Profiles”

data stores) using techniques which include but not limited to Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Survey and Email Questionnaire for PAP members contributed by MMBs and sending of authentication codes, sending of promotion codes to new Uploaded n Paid Profiles (UPP) members during profile submission process. This process thus provides ‘

Profiles Confidential Information Auto Validation’

Mechanism on the system of claim 1. The system of claim 1 uses above mentioned techniques and also 3rd party agencies to validate the profiles confidential information and provide the ‘

Validated’

seal on profiles. The confidential information of these ‘

validated’

sealed profiles are sold at higher price than those of non-validated profiles on system of claim 1.

23. The system of claim 1 includes integration with the social systems (which includes but not limited to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, etc.) and match making systems (which includes but not limited to Match.com, eHarmony, Bharatmatrimony.com, Shaadi.com, etc.) to display more ‘

profile data’ and

‘

social data’

about Paid Active Profile (PAP) members to local and remote end users/customers of the system of claim 1. This additional profile info and social info is pulled for only consenting Paid Active Profile (PAP) members from their existing profile(s) in various social systems/match making systems and displayed to local and remote end users/customers of the system of claim 1.

24. The system of claim 1 also includes collaboration with the participating social systems and participating match making systems to provide collaboration features and two-way communication features (i.e., from system of claim 1 to the participating social systems/participating match making systems and vice-versa) which include but not limited to

a. ability of the PAP member who logged on the system of claim 1 to add/modify/delete data elements of his/her profile data &

social data existing on participating social system(s)/participating match making system(s) from within the system of claim 1 using interfaces of system of claim 1 specific to those social system(s)/match making system(s).

b. the ability of the PAP member who logged on the participating social system(s)/participating match making system(s) to add/modify/delete data elements of his/her PAP data existing on system of claim 1 using interfaces of those social system(s)/match making system(s).

25. The system of claim 1 contains a header promotional banner (with static/dynamic content) on home screen and other screens. This banner displays info on various ‘

Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) Confidential Info’

purchasing schemes and Portal System features. They include, but not limited to the following;

“

No membership required”

, “

Purchase profile contact info at only $x.xx per profile for most profiles”

, “

Thousands of verified profiles”

, “

Dating revolution—

purchase partner profiles based on partner preferences”

, “

post your profile info and get purchased by partners who match your partner preference”

, etc.

26. The system of claim 1 contains End User Credits Schemes/End User Coupons Schemes to a) make its members contribute more/rich content to their profiles or to the system of claim 1 b) make its members purchase more often the Confidential Information of prospective Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) on the system of claim 1 c) make its old members interested and re-join in the system of claim 1 d) make non-members interested and join in the system of claim 1 e) make its members interested and retained on the system of claim 1. The eligible end users who obtained these credits/coupons can use them to purchase Confidential Information of prospective Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) at discounted rate or for free on the system of claim 1.

27. The system of claim 1 contains Bulk Purchases Discount Schemes for bulk profiles'"'"' confidential information purchase scenarios and bulk memberships purchase scenarios to make the customer of system of claim 1 purchase more Paid Active Profiles'"'"' Confidential Information and more memberships of “

Participating MMBs'"'"' Advertised Membership Schemes”

on the system of claim 1.

28. A Method to collaborate and/or consolidate and display Paid Active Profiles (PAPs) data (including optionally social data of PAP members from one or more social systems) but barring confidential information of PAPs, of one or more Participating Match Making Brokers (MMBs) to local and remote end users/customers (hereafter called as end users) soliciting match making brokerage service who can then view one or more prospective PAPs data and optionally purchase their confidential information without having to mandatorily enroll in a paid membership that provides match making brokerage service for a specific period of time (example:

1 month membership, 3 months membership, etc.), wherein the PAP data and social data of PAP members are displayed based on pre-defined privacy settings set by the PAP members.

29. The method of claim 28, can be implemented as an application means in all electronic communication devices which includes but not limited to smart phones, smart televisions, IPads, computers, laptops, desktops, tablets, telephone devices, etc. that use one of more of all communicating network mediums which includes but not limited to Internet, cellular networks, radio, Wi-Fi, blue tooth, cable networks, telephone network, a radio wave, an electric signal, a wave, etc. or in any other virtual environment.

30. The method of claim 28, can be implemented as a stand-alone application means or portable application means in all basic data storage means which includes not limited to USB stick, flash card, pen drive, CD, magnetic disk, mini-disk, magneto-optical disk, multimedia memory card, secure digital card, memory stick, or any other portable data storage means etc.

31. A Method to collaborate and/or consolidate and display salable data items information (including optionally value-added data related to these data items from 3rd party connected systems) but barring the saleable confidential information of these data items, of one of more Participating Information Selling Brokers to local and remote end users/customers soliciting data items brokerage service who can then view one of more prospective saleable data items information on the system and optionally purchase their confidential information without having to mandatorily enroll in a paid membership that provides data items brokerage service for a specific period of time (example:

1 month membership, 3 months membership, etc.)

32. The method of claim 31, can be implemented as an application means in business areas which currently don'"'"'t have this method and where this method can be applied as-is without modification. These business areas include but not limited to the following:

rental brokers;

employment brokers;

advisory brokers in various knowledge areas/business domains;

list brokers;

real estate brokers;

investment brokers;

sponsorship brokers;

business brokers;

joint venture brokers;

etc.