System and method for social product information sharing

• US 20110276406A1
• Filed: 05/10/2010
• Published: 11/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nahu BVBA
• Original Assignee: Nahu BVBA
• Inventors: Sneyders, Dave
• Granted Patent: US 8,484,080 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.66
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

An e-commerce system, comprising a portal server executing on a digital computer and coupled to a digital packet network and an analysis software executing on the server system or executing on another digital computer and adapted to communicate with the server across the digital packet network, wherein the portal server is adapted to receive information from a user via the digital packet network, said information including at least a plurality of data elements pertaining to products owned, used, or sought by the user, and wherein the received information is made available to the analysis software, and the analysis software computes a maturity score for the user based at least in part on the received information provided to the analysis software, said maturity score further being provided to the portal server, and wherein the portal server uses at least a maturity score to order a selection of information to be provided to the user, and wherein at least some of the received information is made available to a plurality of external systems based at least in part on privacy settings established by or for the particular user, is disclosed.

Claims

1. An e-commerce system, comprising:

a portal server executing on a digital computer and coupled to a digital packet network; and

an analysis software executing on the server system or executing on another digital computer and adapted to communicate with the server across the digital packet network;

wherein the portal server is adapted to receive information from a user via the digital packet network, said information including at least a plurality of data elements pertaining to products owned, used, or sought by the user; and

wherein the received information is made available to the analysis software, and the analysis software computes a maturity score for the user based at least in part on the received information provided to the analysis software, said maturity score further being provided to the portal server;

wherein the portal server uses at least a maturity score to order a selection of information to be provided to the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the analysis software further computes a user profile based at least in part on the received information and on the history of information updates received from the user by the portal server.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising an advertising server coupled to the portal server or operating as a software module within the portal server, wherein the advertising server selects from among a plurality of available advertisements particular advertisements to be displayed to the user, based at least in part the user profile.

4. The system of claim 1, in which the digital packet network is the Internet.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a security server coupled to the portal server or operating as a software module within the portal server, wherein the security server carries out an authentication process to confirm an identity of a user before receiving information from the user.

6. The system of claim 2, in which the digital packet network is the Internet.

7. The system of claim 2, further comprising a security server coupled to the portal server or operating as a software module within the portal server, wherein the security server carries out an authentication process to confirm an identity of a user before receiving information from the user.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the portal server is adapted to receive user information from a third-party server or web site.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the portal server is further adapted to provide user maturity score and user profiles to the third-party server or web site.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the advertising server is further adapted to provide advertisements to the third-party server for display to a particular user, based at least in part on a maturity score or user profile provided by the portal server.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein upon notification from the third-party server that a user has requested information pertaining to a particular product or class of products, the portal server selects from a plurality of users known or suspected to have such information, said selection based at least in part on available user maturity scores and user profiles pertaining to the plurality of users known or suspected to have such information.

12. An e-commerce system, comprising:

a portal server executing on a digital computer and coupled to a digital packet network; and

an analysis software executing on the server system or executing on another digital computer and adapted to communicate with the server across the digital packet network;

wherein the portal server is adapted to receive information from a user via the digital packet network, said information including at least a plurality of data elements pertaining to products owned, used, or sought by the user;

wherein the received information is made available to the analysis software, and the analysis software computes a maturity score for the user based at least in part on the received information provided to the analysis software, said maturity score further being provided to the portal server;

wherein the portal server uses at least a maturity score to order a selection of information to be provided to the user, and

wherein at least some of the received information is made available to a plurality of external systems based at least in part on privacy settings established by or for the particular user.