Social Event Scheduler

• US 20150039368A1
• Filed: 07/30/2013
• Published: 02/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pipl Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Delonaco Limited
• Inventors: Polyakov, Maxym
• Granted Patent: US 10,068,205 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.19
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

An online event scheduler system for allowing users to find events of interest in which the users can participate and to allow users to set up impromptu meeting with nearby users.

Claims

1. An online event scheduler system comprising:

at least one server for managing event data and search requests;

at least one cluster analysis module for analyzing the event data to form an event type cluster, an event location cluster, an event date cluster and an event time cluster.

2. The online system of claim 1, further comprising at least one user interface for interacting with the online event scheduler.

3. The online system of claim 1, further comprising at least one registration module to collect event information.

4. The online system of claim 1, further comprising at least one notification module to send event notification information to users of the online event scheduler system.

5. The online system of claim 1, further comprising at least one status module for allowing a user to update the user'"'"'s meeting status.

6. The online system of claim 1, wherein the event type cluster includes short-term events, mid-term events and long-term events.

7. The online system of claim 1, wherein the event location cluster includes information on the geographic information corresponding to a given event.

8. The online system of claim 1, wherein the event date cluster includes information on the calendar date of the event.

9. The online system of claim 1, wherein the event time cluster includes information on the time of day of the event.

10. A computer method for helping a user find or organize events, the method comprising:

analyzing event data for forming clusters of event data including an event type cluster, an event location cluster, an event date cluster and an event time cluster; and

satisfying the user'"'"'s search request for events of interest by searching the clusters of data.

11. The computer method of claim 10, further comprising including a user interface to allow the user to provide event information.

12. The computer method of claim 10, further comprising enabling the user to provide the user'"'"'s meeting status.

13. The computer method of claim 10, further comprising enabling the user set up impromptu meetings with other users that are within a pre-determined geographical radius of the user'"'"'s geolocation.

14. The computer method of claim 10, further comprising performing an automatic requeueing of the user'"'"'s search request if no events are found that match the user'"'"'s search criteria.

15. The computer method of claim 10, further comprising performing an automatic search based on geolocation of the user to allow the user to set up impromptu meetings with nearby users.

16. The computer method of claim 10, further comprising sending event notification to users.

17. The computer method of claim 10, further comprising associating with social network applications to find events and other users.

18. The computer method of claim 10, further comprising sending advertisements to the user based on the events of interest to the user.