SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GATHERING AND DELIVERING PERSONALIZED USER INFORMATION

• US 20150106886A1
• Filed: 10/20/2014
• Published: 04/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fintegraph, LLC (Ascend Innovation Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Onederland Technologys LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Bolnick, David A., Krauthamer, Robert M., Esses, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 9,866,564 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for providing a secure data channel between a user and associates. The method may receive pushed information from an associate, including, e.g., an update to the user profile information, related information, or personalized content for the user. The method can convey to the user, personal information including a selectable union of the user profile information, the related information, and/or the personalized content. The method can further share access to the personal information to a family, where the family can include another user, users, or multiple related users. The pushed information can include textual, digitized audio, digitized video, graphical image, or other data, and can include prescription, automobile service, or purchased product information, or voicemail messages.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A method, comprising:

storing, by a computer system, respective account information corresponding to a first account and a second account of an information distribution network, wherein the respective account information indicates that the first account and the second account are unassociated, such that a first member corresponding to the first account is prevented from accessing at least a portion of information for the second account;

the computer system facilitating a request for associating the first member with a second member corresponding to the second account via the information distribution network;

in response to receiving a response to the request from the second member, the computer system associating the first account with the second account and updating the respective account information to indicate an association between the first member and the second member; and

based on the updating of the respective account information, the computer system allowing the first member to access an additional portion of the information for the second account.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the respective account information corresponding to the second account indicates that a particular portion of the information for the second account is publicly accessible and that the additional portion is not publicly accessible, and wherein the method further comprises:

prior to associating the first account with the second account, the computer system permitting the first member to access the particular portion that is publicly accessible; and

subsequent to associating the first account with the second account, the computer system determining that the first member is permitted to access the additional portion of the information.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

facilitating, by the computer system, a request from the first member for joining, via the information distribution network, a member group that includes the second member.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

based on the updated respective account information, the computer system adding the second member to a contact list of the first member stored on the information distribution network.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

the computer system updating a member profile corresponding to the second account to indicate the association between the first member and the second member.

19. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

based on the updated respective account information, the computer system facilitating a message from the first member, the message specifying the second member as a recipient, to be transmitted to the second member.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the updated respective account information indicates at least one common attribute shared by the first member and the second member.

21. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

based on a preference of the second member indicated in the updated respective account information corresponding to the second account, the computer system generating a report that includes a particular portion of the information for the second account; and

the computer system causing the report to be provided to the first member based on the updated respective account information.

22. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory configured to communicate with the processor, the memory having instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to cause the system to perform operations comprising;

receiving, from a first member of a first account of an information distribution network, a request to access member information for a second account of the information distribution network;

based on respective account information for the first account and the second account indicating that the first member is unassociated with a second member of the second account on the information distribution network, permitting the first member to access a portion of the member information for the second account previously selected by the second member;

facilitating transmission to the second member a request for associating the first member and the second member via the information distribution network; and

upon detecting an approval of the request for associating from the second member, permitting the first member to access other portions of the member information for the second account.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from the second member, a selection indicating that a particular portion of the member information for the second account is publicly accessible and that a remaining portion of the member information is accessible to members that are associated with the second member via the information distribution network; and

prior to detecting the approval of the request for associating, permitting the first member to access the particular portion that is publicly accessible for the second account.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein the operations further comprise:

associating the first account with the second account and updating the respective account information to indicate an association between the first member and the second member; and

based on the updating of the respective account information, permitting the first member to access a remaining portion of the member information.

25. The system of claim 22, wherein the operations further comprise:

based on the approval of the request, providing to the second member a report that includes particular information respectively provided by the first member and a third member associated with the second member.

26. The system of claim 22, wherein the operations further comprise:

based on the approval of the request, facilitating, via a data channel associated with the information distribution network, an advertisement from the first member to the second member.

27. The system of claim 22, wherein the operations further comprise:

associating the first account with the second account and providing a notification to the first member indicating that the second member is associated with the first member via the information distribution network.

28. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable to cause a computer system to perform operations comprising:

storing respective account information corresponding to a plurality of accounts of an information distribution network, wherein the respective account information indicates that a first account and a second account are unassociated, such that a first member corresponding to the first account is prevented from providing information to the second account;

facilitating a request, via the information distribution network, for associating the first member with a second member corresponding to the second account;

in response to receiving an acceptance for the request from the second member, associating the first account with the second account and updating the respective account information to indicate an association between the first member and the second member; and

based on the updating of the respective account information, allowing the first member to provide information to the second member via the information distribution network.

29. The article of manufacture of claim 28, wherein the operations further comprise:

based on the respective account information corresponding to the second account indicating that a first portion and a second portion of member information for the second account are respectively associated with a low privacy setting and a higher privacy setting, permitting the first member to access the second portion of member information associated with the higher privacy setting upon associating the first and second accounts.

30. The article of manufacture of claim 28, wherein the operations further comprise:

subsequent to updating the respective account information, displaying a portion of the plurality of accounts that are associated with the first account, wherein the portion of the plurality of accounts include the second account.

31. The article of manufacture of claim 28, wherein the operations further comprise:

subsequent to the associating, providing to the first member particular information indicating that the second member is included in a particular group of the information network distribution network; and

facilitating a request to join the particular group from the first member.

32. The article of manufacture of claim 28, wherein the operations further comprise:

subsequent to updating the respective account information, receiving a request from the first member to access member information corresponding to the second account; and

based on a privacy setting in the second account, determining at least a portion of the member information that is accessible by the first member.

33. The article of manufacture of claim 28, wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to detecting that access to the first account has been authenticated, providing to the first member, a report that includes member information corresponding to a portion of the plurality of accounts that are associated with the first account, wherein the report further includes member information corresponding to at least one of the plurality of accounts not associated with the first account.