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Secured electronic rating system

  • US 5,950,172 A
  • Filed: 07/19/1996
  • Issued: 09/07/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of providing secure communication of private information to a remote subsystem through electronic media comprising:

  • providing a local subsystem disposed at a local location and accessible to a user, said local subsystem being responsive to user input information and being operative to generate local communication data, and being operative to receive remote communication data, said local subsystem having an identifying number associated therewith for transmission to a remote subsystem with said communication data;

    providing a remote subsystem located remotely from said local subsystem for receiving said local communication data and for receiving and storing said identifying number, and for generating remote communication data;

    developing score rating information for storage in the remote subsystem, such storage information being communicatable to a user at said local subsystem upon request;

    establishing a first communication link between the local subsystem and the remote subsystem, said first communication link being operative to communicate said identifying number to the remote subsystem for storage;

    communicating said local communication data from said local subsystem to said remote subsystem, and communicating said identifying number to said remote subsystem via said first communication link;

    storing said identifying number in said remote subsystem;

    communicating remote communication data including a telephone toll-free number through said first communication link from said remote subsystem to said local subsystem;

    using said toll-free number to establish a second communication link between said local subsystem and said remote subsystem, said second communication link being a toll free telephone connection, and being operative to again communicate said identifying number to said remote subsystem; and

    comparing the identifying number communicated from said local subsystem through said second communication link to said remote subsystem to the identifying number stored in the remote subsystem to verify that the second communication link is established between said remote subsystem and said local subsystem, whereupon a user at said local subsystem will be allowed to communicate his/her private information to the remote subsystem; and

    transmitting private information from the local subsystem, including an evaluation relating to the degree of the user'"'"'s satisfaction with a product, to the remote subsystem through said second communication link, and in response thereto determining a new score rating associated with the selected product based on the transmitted evaluation and a previous rating stored in said remote subsystem.

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