Inception of Live Events

• US 20130013550A1
• Filed: 03/22/2011
• Published: 01/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eric James Kerby
• Original Assignee: Eric James Kerby
• Inventors: Kerby, Eric James
• Granted Patent: US 9,077,767 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/52
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/048 Fuzzy inferencing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

Common interests of at least two different groups of users are captured and analyzed to create a proposal for an event that would satisfy the interests of each group of users. One group of users may be consumers of content, another group of users may be providers of content and a further group of users may, for example, be venue providers. Once an event is proposed, ownership of the event may be prompted for.

Claims

1. A system for capturing latent parameters of interest of at least two groups of users to facilitate creation of an event comprising:

a computer-readable medium;

a processor in a server;

a first group of terminals remote from and connected to said server;

a second group of terminals remote from and connected to said server, and

computer-readable instructions residing in said computer readable medium for processing by said processor, the system being configured to;

receive, via the first group of terminals, a first subset of data, said subset of data comprising one or more parameters of interest of each member of a first group of users;

receive, via the second group of terminals, at least one additional subset of data comprising one or more parameters of interest of each member of a second group of users, said second group of users being different to the first group of users;

analyze, by the processor, said first subset of data to identify an aggregate of corresponding parameters of interest of said first group of users;

analyze, by the processor, the aggregate of corresponding parameters of said first group of users and the parameters of interest of said second group of users to identify complementary parameters of interest of said at least two group of users; and

create, by the processor, a proposal for an event based on said identified complementary parameters of said at least two group of users.

2. The system according to claim 1 further configured to transmit said proposal to the first and second groups of terminals.

3. The system according to claim 2 further configured to receive, via first and second groups of terminals, inputs indicating provisional acceptance of the proposal.

4. The system according to claim 3 further configured to:

determine that at least a predetermined number of provisional acceptances have been received; and

prompt for ownership of the event.

5. The system according to claim 3 further configured to create a user group.

6. The system according to claim 1 configured to vary a threshold used for identifying the aggregate of corresponding parameters of interest of said first group of users.

7. The system according to claim 1 further configured to:

receive an adjustment to a parameter of interest; and

identify adjusted complementary parameters of interest based on said adjusted parameter.

8. The system according to claim 1 further configured to represent the first subset of data as one or more numerical personalities.

9. The system according to claim 8 further configured to derive part of the numerical personality from data representing another part of the numerical personality.

10. The system according to claim 8 further configured to identify a subgroup of numerical personalities and create therefrom a group numerical personality.

11. The system according to claim 1 configured to identify the aggregate of corresponding parameters of interest of said first group of users by assigning a probability to each of said first group of users, where said probability represents one or more of:

a probability of interest in an event to be proposed;

a probability of availability for the event to be proposed; and

a probability of ability to travel to the event to be proposed.

16. The system according to claim 1 wherein each member of the first group is a content consumer and each member of the second group is a content provider.

17. The system according to claim 1 wherein said event is for live provision of content provided by one or more members of the second group to one or more members of the first group.

12. A method for capturing latent parameters of interest of at least two groups of users to facilitate creation of an event, the method comprising the following steps performed by a processor:

receiving a first subset of data, said subset of data comprising one or more parameters of interest of each member of a first group of users;

receiving at least one additional subset of data comprising one or more parameters of interest of each member of a second group of users, said second group of users being different to the first group of users;

analyzing said first subset of data to identify an aggregate of corresponding parameters of interest of said first group of users;

analyzing said aggregated parameters of said first group of users and the parameters of interest of said second group of users to identify complementary parameters of interest of said at least two group of users; and

transmitting, to said at least two group of users, a proposal for an event based on said identified complementary parameters of said at least two group of users.

13. The method according to claim 12 further comprising:

receiving provisional acceptances of the proposal;

determining that at least a predetermined number of provisional acceptances have been received; and

prompting for ownership of the event.

14. The method according to claim 13 wherein the first subset of data is represented as one or more numerical personalities.

18. The method according to claim 12 wherein each member of the first group is a content consumer and each member of the second group is a content provider.

19. The method according to claim 12 further comprising:

receiving a further subset of data comprising one or more parameters of interest of each member of a third group of users, said third group of users being different to the first group of users and the second group of users;

analyzing said aggregated parameters of said first group of users, said parameters of interest of said second group of users and said parameters of interest of said third group of users to identify complementary parameters of interest of said first, second and third groups of users; and

transmitting, to said first, second and third groups of users, a proposal for an event based on said identified complementary parameters of said first, second and third groups of users.

20. The method according to claim 19 wherein each member of the third group is a venue provider.

15. A computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions, which, when processed by a processor, cause the processor to:

receive a first subset of data, said subset of data comprising one or more parameters of interest of each member of a first group of users;

receive at least one additional subset of data comprising one or more parameters of interest of each member of a second group of users, said second group of users being different to the first group of users;

analyze said first subset of data to identify an aggregate of corresponding parameters of interest of said first group of users;

analyze the aggregate of corresponding parameters of said first group of users and the parameters of interest of said second group of users to identify complementary parameters of interest of said at least two group of users; and

create a proposal for an event based on said identified complementary parameters of said at least two group of users.