Social And Commercial Internet Platform for Correlating, Crowdsourcing, and Convening People and Products of Related Characteristics Into A Virtual Social Network
First Claim
1. A method of creating a social network and related database useful for electronic commerce on a computer network, comprising registering a plurality of users and storing said registration data, providing a framework for said users to create user websites, said user website adapted to receive product reviews, product related posts and product messages, using said registration data and date from said website to create a plurality of user profiles, allowing said user to linking said websites based upon shared affinities, creating a plurality of affinity group websites, and allowing users to create websites and enter data relating to items of commerce, and providing said users a data entry location on a host page to enable said users to create temporary affinity groups relating to items of commerce and transmitting messages to potential interested users for the purpose of consolidating purchasing power and transmitting information relating to said temporary affinity groups to product vendors.
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Abstract
A social network and related database useful for electronic commerce on a computer network, that includes a registry users and related data including profiles, a plurality of websites that publish product reviews, posts, messages, advertisements, providing links from websites based upon shared affinities of users and affinity group websites that allow users to create temporary affinity groups relating to items of commerce and transmitting messages to potential interested users for the purpose of consolidating purchasing power and transmitting information relating to said temporary affinity groups to product vendors.
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22 Claims
- 1. A method of creating a social network and related database useful for electronic commerce on a computer network, comprising registering a plurality of users and storing said registration data, providing a framework for said users to create user websites, said user website adapted to receive product reviews, product related posts and product messages, using said registration data and date from said website to create a plurality of user profiles, allowing said user to linking said websites based upon shared affinities, creating a plurality of affinity group websites, and allowing users to create websites and enter data relating to items of commerce, and providing said users a data entry location on a host page to enable said users to create temporary affinity groups relating to items of commerce and transmitting messages to potential interested users for the purpose of consolidating purchasing power and transmitting information relating to said temporary affinity groups to product vendors.
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6. A social network adapted for electronic commerce operated on a computer network said network comprising:
- a computer including;
a processor;
a database containing user information, information relating to items of commerce, and information relating to vendors of said items of commerce, a server to distribute web pages to client computers, a memory coupled to the processor, said memory comprising computer-readable code that, when executed, will cause the processor to perform a method to define a plurality of member profiles stored in a database that are associated with an item of commerce, transmitting a message using a communications medium to users associated with said member profiles inviting said to join an temporary affinity group, wherein said temporary affinity group comprises a target market for said items of commerce, and causing said processor to execute an algorithm to define relevant vendors of said items of commerce from vendor profiles stored in a database and transmitting a message using a communication medium to said relevant vendors for said items. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
- a computer including;
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