METHOD OF VERIFYING REVIEW

• US 20150032650A1
• Filed: 07/24/2013
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cequity LLC
• Original Assignee: Cequity LLC
• Inventors: Mermelstein, Yakov Z.
• Application Number:
  US13/949,583
• Publication Number:
  US 20150032650A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0185 Product, service or business identity fraud
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

The Invention involves using GPS technology to determine where a person has been and then permitting posting of reviews of subjects only if the reviewer has visited that subject within a specified period of time.

Claims

1. A method of verifying reviews comprising:

A. Identifying a location of a person and maintaining a log of locations at which said person has been during a predetermined time frame;

B. Said person generating a review of a subject;

C. Verifying that within said predetermined time frame said person was at said subject; and

D. Storing said Review in a universally accessible electronic location.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein identifying a location includes using GPS to determine a physical location of a portable electronic device of said person.

3. A method according to claim 1 wherein said reviews are stored on said universally accessible electronic location if they are written within said prescribed time after visiting the subject.

4. A method according to claim 1 wherein said reviews are blocked from being stored on said universally accessible electronic location if the person has not visited the subject or has not been there within said predetermined time frame.

5. A method according to claim 1 wherein said predetermined time frame is based on a nature of said subject.

6. A method according to claim 1 wherein said universally accessible electronic location being an Internet site or a cloud or a server.

7. A method of verifying reviews comprising:

A. Maintaining an electronic log of interactions between a person and a subject;

B. Said person generating a review of said subject

C. Confirming said person has interacted with said subject within a specified period of time; and

D. Storing said review in a universally accessible electronic location.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein said maintaining an electronic log of interactions includes entries on an electronic calendar of said person and confirming said person has interacted includes a search of said electronic calendar for entries pertaining to said subject.

9. A method according to claim 7, wherein said maintaining an electronic log of interactions includes an electronic log of purchases, credit card activity, travel reservations and tickets, phone calls, e mail, twitters, communications, physical visits, visits to a website of or about the subject, and other interactions with the subject and confirming said person has interacted includes a search of said electronic log for entries pertaining to said subject.

10. A method according to claim 7 wherein said reviews are stored on said universally accessible electronic location if they are written within said specified period time after interacting with said subject.

11. A method according to claim 7 wherein said reviews are blocked from being stored on said universally accessible electronic location if the person has not interacted with the subject within said specified period of time.

12. A method according to claim 7 wherein said universally accessible electronic location being an Internet site or a cloud or a server.

13. A method according to claim 7 wherein the specified period of time being based on a nature of said subject.