MOBILE SOCIAL-BUSINESS NETWORK

• US 20130304527A1
• Filed: 05/14/2013
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alfred M. Santos III
• Original Assignee: Alfred M. Santos III
• Inventors: Santos, Alfred M. III
• Application Number:
  US13/894,404
• Publication Number:
  US 20130304527A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0239 Online discounts or incentives
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Systems, methods, machines and platforms are provided which detail a technique for utilizing a mobile social-business platform capable of building and managing a community of people so they can plan, coordinate and manage their lives in an efficient, social and financially beneficial way from a mobile device. Additionally, this application details a technique for building a network of select unique people'"'"'s who will gain access to incentives from a vast combination of sources within their networks previously unavailable to them.

Claims

1. A system for incentivizing the activities of a plurality of individuals comprising, running on a digital computer system having a processor, a database, and a communication system:

a) a module for accepting, and adding to a database, individuals'"'"' identity and contact information, as well as personal characteristics regarding the individual;

b) a module for receiving an offer and posting it electronically to at least a subset of individuals in the database, the offer including a location, date, and time at which the individuals are incentivized to be present and also including the terms of a positive incentive to be provided upon acceptance and subsequent personal presence as specified;

c) a module, operated on a mobile electronic device, for displaying visible offers and allowing acceptance;

d) a module, operated on a mobile electronic device for verifying compliance with accepted offers.

2. The system of claim 1 where the terms of the incentive include a penalty for not being present as agreed in an accepted offer.

3. The system of claim 1 where the terms of the incentive require personal presence within a range of the specified location for a minimum amount of time within a specified window.

4. The system of claim 1 where the incentive is non-pecuniary and comprises at least one of:

complementary admission, complementary food and complimentary drink.

5. The system of claim 1 where the incentive is pecuniary and comprises points that may be optionally redeemed for money.

6. The system of claim 5 where the redemption is via a debt card.

7. The system of claim 6 where the debit card also serves as an element in a closed-loop presence verification subsystem.

8. The system of claim 1 where the location is a business serving food or drink.

9. The system of claim 1 where there is electronic verification of agreed-upon personal presence.

10. The system of claim 9 where the electronic verification comprises GPS locating.

11. The system of claim 9 where the electronic verification comprises cell-phone photography.

12. The system of claim 1 where acceptance is only operative for individuals who have personal characteristics indicated in the database that are compatible with those required by the offer.

13. The system of claim 1 where offers are only completely visible for individuals who have personal characteristics indicated in the database that are compatible with those required by the offer.

14. A method of facilitating selective product placement gifting comprising:

a) entering into a computer database the identity, contact information and personal characteristics of a plurality of individuals;

b) receiving and posting electronically, a product promotion offer to a limited number of individuals within the database who posses personal characteristics specified by the product placement offer such as to be visible only to those individuals.

15. The method of claim 14 where the number of total items to be gifted is less than the number of people with criteria-meeting personal characteristics and the actual gifting is by earlier acceptance having priority over later acceptance.

16. The method of claim 14 where the personal characteristics comprise listed names.

17. A system for incentivizing people to join them at a venue comprising:

a) a module for accepting and adding to a database, individuals'"'"' identity and contact information, as well as personal characteristics regarding the individual;

b) a module for receiving an offer and posting it electronically, visible only to a subset of individuals in the database;

the individuals having personal characteristics stored in the database consistent with criteria present in the offer;

the offer including a business location and a stated incentive to patronized the business;

the offer further including a compensation to the accepting individuals to post, on a social media site, the timing of their plans to patronize the business and including an identifier allowing unique tracking of people influenced by particular acceptors to patronize the business during a time window indicated in the social media post.

18. The system of claim 17 where the tracking of influenced individuals is used to determine at least one aspect of the acceptor'"'"'s compensation.

19. A mobile electronic communication and computer device having a screen, a CPU, memory and radio frequency communication circuitry programmed to perform the following steps:

a) receive data from a user comprising, identity and answers to predetermined personal characteristics questions;

b) transmit that data to a remote computing and storage facility;

c) receive, from a remote computing and storage facility, an offer that is being directed to the user due to a detected correspondence between the users'"'"' pre-entered personal characterizes;

the offer relating to an incentivized request for the users'"'"' presence at a prescribed time and place

d) receive from the user, an acceptance of the offer;

e) transmit the acceptance to the remote computing and storage facility.

20. The mobile electronic communication and computer device of claim 19 further programmed to indicate a dis-incentive for accepting an offer and subsequently not fulfill the offer by being personally present as agreed.

21. The mobile electronic communication and computer device of claim 19 further being configured to participate in an automatic, electronic versification of agreed-upon personal presence.