Information Based Life View

• US 20150261386A1
• Filed: 03/12/2014
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Michael Bilotta
• Original Assignee: Michael Bilotta
• Inventors: Bilotta, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,959,424 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes

Abstract

A method for enabling a user to customize, prioritize, and view information filtered to align with the user'"'"'s life state that includes interaction with an online market place. The user provides priority, positioning, and custom information about the user'"'"'s life state which allows the user to view information in a life view. This information may include at least demographic information, logistical information, ethnic information, social information and psychological information. The partners may use the information about the user'"'"'s life to filter its information according to the information about the user'"'"'s life, which is then viewed in a life view by a user, according to the user defined positioning, prioritization, and other custom parameters. The method also enables the user to view partner and user participation in a marketplace to procure the information about the user'"'"'s life, user ratings according to the user'"'"'s behavior, and partner ratings according to the partner'"'"'s information delivery.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

Receiving, prioritizing, positioning, and displaying information about and relevant to a user'"'"'s life from a user who is a registered member of an information delivery system, wherein the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life includes at least (a) demographic information, (b) ethnic information, (c) social information, and (d) psychological information;

enabling the user to grant permissions to a partner to access the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life, wherein the partner is also a registered member of the information delivery system, and wherein the user grants the permission to the partner by controlling visibility of the partner to the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life and by controlling frequency, extent, type, and volume of filtered information that is pushed by the partner, in order for the partner to display customized information relevant to the user'"'"'s life view; and

receiving the filtered information from the partner, wherein the filtered information is generated by the partner based on applying the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life to information of the partner, wherein the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life is provided by the user using a client computing system associated with the information delivery system, wherein the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life is received by a server computing system associated with the information delivery system, and wherein the information about the user'"'"'s life is received, prioritized, positioned, and displayed according to the user'"'"'s life.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a life view to enable the user to view the filtered information, wherein the filtered information may be a subset of the information of the partner, and wherein the life view associated with the user is independently configurable from a life view associated with another user of the information delivery system.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing and displaying information from a marketplace to enable partners to procure the information about the user'"'"'s life. Wherein the user may prioritize, position, and display information regarding marketplace interests, bids, offers, and transactions.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

establishing a data structure to enable the user to provide the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life, the data structure including fields related to one another, wherein each of the fields is associated with a value, and wherein the data structure includes multiple levels such that a field at a lower level is to provide more detail information and value than a corresponding field at a higher level. Wherein information may be displayed, prioritized, and positioned in a life view from multiple levels according to the user'"'"'s life.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising:

automatically populating the fields of the data structure with a set of baseline values; and

enabling the user to update the baseline values and non-baseline values to accurately reflect the user'"'"'s life. Wherein baseline information may be displayed, prioritized, and positioned in a life view from multiple levels according to the user'"'"'s life.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, further comprising:

enabling the user to update the baseline values and the non-baseline values using a mobile computing system and a mobile application associated with the information delivery system. Wherein information may be displayed, prioritized, and positioned in a life view on a computing system, mobile application, and by other embodiments herein.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

enabling the user to rate the partner based on whether the filtered information from the partner is aligned with the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life; and

enabling the partner to rate the user based on whether the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life is aligned with behavior of the user when the user visits a website associated with the partner. Wherein the user rating for the partner may be used as a setting in the user'"'"'s prioritization, positioning, and displaying of that partner'"'"'s information in a life view. Wherein the partner rating for the user may be visible in the user'"'"'s prioritization, positioning, and displaying of that partner'"'"'s information in a life view.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life and life view in a secured relational database associated with the information delivery system; and

enabling the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life to be accessed by the partner when the user visits a website of the partner; and

enabling the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life to be customized and accessed by the user through the user'"'"'s life view.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein customized web pages are presented to the user when the user visits the website of the partner, and wherein the customized web pages are generated by the partner based on the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life. Wherein the user may access these customized web pages from a life view.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein filtered search results are presented to the user when the user visits the website of the partner, and wherein the filtered search results are generated by the partner based on search parameters provided by the user and based on the information about and relevant to the user'"'"'s life. Wherein the search parameters and search results generated by the partner may be factored into the information pushed by the partner into a life view.

11. A computer-readable media that stores instructions, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving information about a user'"'"'s life from a user who is a registered member of an information delivery system, wherein the information about the user'"'"'s life includes at least demographic, ethnic, social and psychological information;

enabling the user to set parameters to control (a) access to the information about the user'"'"'s life by a partner and (b) volume and frequency of filtered information to be received from the partner on behalf of the user, wherein the partner is also a registered member of the information delivery system;

receiving the filtered information from the partner, wherein the filtered information is generated by applying the parameters to information of the partner; and

prioritizing, positioning, and presenting the filtered information to a user life view.

12. The computer-readable media of claim 11, wherein the user further sets the parameters to control (a) frequency of receiving the filtered information from the partner, and (b) priority, order, and customized filtering of information to be delivered to a user life view based on the user'"'"'s life and display preferences.

13. The computer-readable media of claim 11, further comprising:

establishing a data structure to enable the user to provide the information about the user'"'"'s life, the data structure including fields related to one another, wherein each of the fields is associated with a value representing one aspect of the user'"'"'s life;

automatically populating the fields of the data structure with a set of baseline values;

enabling the user to manually update the baseline values or non-baseline values to more accurately reflect the user'"'"'s life;

enabling the user to rate the partner based on whether the filtered information pushed by the partner is aligned with the information about the user'"'"'s life; and

enabling the partner to rate the user based on whether the information about the user'"'"'s life is aligned with behavior of the user when the user visits a website associated with the partner; and

presenting the baseline values or updated values, and the partner and user ratings, in a user life view, according to the user'"'"'s prioritization, positioning, and custom display settings.

14. The computer-readable media of claim 13, further comprising:

providing a marketplace for the partner or other users to purchase the information about the user'"'"'s life; and

enabling the partner to use the information about the user'"'"'s life to customize web pages of the partner when the user visits a web site of the partner; and

enabling marketplace information to be displayed in a user life view, according to priority, positioning, and custom display settings; and

enabling a user to interact with and use marketplace information in the user'"'"'s life view.

15. The computer-readable media of claim 14, wherein the marketplace is an auction-based marketplace, wherein the customized web pages include web pages that present filtered search results when the web site is associated with a search engine, and wherein the customized life view include filtered, prioritized, custom positioned information, and custom settings associated with a life state, market place, and life view.

16. The computer-readable media of claim 13, further comprising:

enabling the user to cause the values of the fields of the data structure to be updated using a mobile application associated with the information delivery system; and

wherein the user may access, interact with, and modify settings for a life view according to the embodiments herein.

17. The computer-readable media of claim 16, wherein the mobile application is configured to enable the user to provide user experience and to cause one or more values of the fields of the data structure to be updated according to the user experience;

and wherein the updated information and user experience may be accessed, updated, and interacted with in a user'"'"'s life view.

18. A system, comprising:

an information delivery server connected to a network, the information delivery server configured to;

(a) enable a user to provide information about a user'"'"'s life using a client computing system coupled with the information delivery server, wherein the information about the user'"'"'s life includes at least demographic, ethnic, social and psychological information, and wherein the information about the user'"'"'s life is stored in a database coupled with the information delivery server, the client computing system connected to the network;

(b) enable the user to set parameters that control access to the information about the user'"'"'s life by a partner and volume and frequency of information to be received from the partner on behalf of the user, wherein the information received from the partner is to be aligned with the information about the user'"'"'s life, and wherein the partner is associated with a partner server connected to the network;

(c) enable the partner to rate the user based on whether behavior of the user when the user visits a web site of the partner is aligned with the information about the user'"'"'s life; and

(d) enable the user to rate the partner based on whether the information received from the partner is aligned with the information about the user'"'"'s life.

(e) enable the user to access, update, and interact with a user life view, which contains custom information, customized according to the embodiments herein, wherein the custom information may be further customized by prioritizing, positioning, and other user defined custom settings that change how the information is displayed to a user in a user life view.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the information delivery server is further configured to (a) provide a marketplace to enable the partner to purchase the information about the user'"'"'s life and (b) provide a life view to present the information received from the partner to the user according to priorities, positioning settings, and other user defined settings.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the user and the partner are registered with the information delivery server, and wherein the information delivery server is further configured to (a) receive updated information about the user'"'"'s life from the user via a mobile computing device, and (b) enable the partner to access the information about the user'"'"'s life to customize the website of the partner according to the information about the user'"'"'s life;

and (c) enable the user to access, update, and interact with a user life view via a mobile computing device.