System and method for managing and sharing users' information and contacts within a computer network

• US 8,869,302 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2010
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tiziano Tresanti
• Original Assignee: Tiziano Tresanti
• Inventors: Tresanti, Tiziano
• Primary Examiner(s): Darrow, Justin T
• Assistant Examiner(s): WRIGHT, BRYAN F
• Application Number:
  US13/503,350
• Publication Number:
  US 20120246742A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,477 Days
• Field of Search: 726/28
• US Class Current: 726/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A system and a method for managing and sharing, within a computer network, information and contacts related to users, according to which the user (UC), on his personal profile (PF) created on the restricted access web site, can create a certain number of business cards (BV) to be booked to given categories of persons, with the information and/or data he considers to inserted into that card; in this way, the system does not allow to a third party to access user'"'"'s (UC) personal profile (UC), neither in as merely curios observers, and reserves to each user (UC) places for the insertion of their information which, thus, are made accessible only to whom the user (UC) decides to send them and only during the period for which the user (UC) desires to send them. Once the user (UC) comes into contact with a person belonging to the categories to whom he has allowed the vision of the data, he can share, for each category, certain information which are however lent, for a prefixed time period, and automatically updated in real time on personal profile (PF) of then web site.

Claims

1. System for managing and sharing users'"'"' information and contacts within a computer network, comprising a memory, a program software, implemented on a Internet (RI) web server (FE), which manages and filters users'"'"' (UC) requests and which is configured so as to keep free connections towards a database (AD) and connections on demand towards said users (UC), said database (AD) being also able to provide requested information and/or data on different interfaces and each user (UC) knowing his/her own relationships and relationships that are established with other users (UC), through access interfaces (I1, I2) which allow or not to carry out connections (C) for reading information and/or data contained within respective supports or cards (BV) which said users (UC) hold, said information and/or data contained in said supports or cards (BV) being modifiable by said users (UC), characterised in that said information and/or data contained in said supports or cards (BV) are different depending on keywords or tags (TG), which are associated by said users (UC) to said supports or cards (BV), and depending on relationships existing between users (UC), said tags (TG) being provided in order to make visible said supports or cards (BV) to one or more categories of individuals identifying one or more profiles (ID) which can be disclosed to one or more contacts (CT) wherein said users (UC) are registered on said web server (FE) and

have access to information and/or data of other users (UC) who make them available,

are able to modify their own personal data,

are able to make searches of public profiles (PF) of other users (UC),

are able to make contact requests to other registered users (UC),

are able to have one or more contacts with website addresses, e-mail addresses, phone and/or mobile numbers,

are able to carry in and/or send information and/or data to programs or devices,

are able to send free or fee-paying messages to their own contacts (CT),

are able to receive messages on the web,

are able to add tags (TG) to their own contacts (CT),

are able to control the status of their own account and to add credit to said account,

are able to control the status of their own profile (PF) and to change said profile (PF).

2. System as claimed in claim 1, characterised in that not-registered users have access to information and/or data of supports or cards (BV) which are tagged by said users (UC) as public.

3. System for managing and sharing users'"'"' information and contacts within a computer network, comprising a memory, a program software, implemented on a Internet (RI) web server (FE), which manages and filters users'"'"' (UC) requests and which is configured so as to keep free connections towards a database (AD) and connections on demand towards said users (UC), said database (AD) being also able to provide requested information and/or data on different interfaces and each user (UC) knowing his/her own relationships and relationships that are established with other users (UC), through access interfaces (I1, I2) which allow or not to carry out connections (C) for reading information and/or data contained within respective supports or cards (BV) which said users (UC) hold, said information and/or data contained in said supports or cards (BV) being modifiable by said users (UC), characterised in that said information and/or data contained in said supports or cards (BV) are different depending on keywords or tags (TG), which are associated by said users (UC) to said supports or cards (BV), and depending on relationships existing between users (UC), said tags (TG) being provided in order to make visible said supports or cards (BV) to one or more categories of individuals identifying one or more profiles (ID) which can be disclosed to one or more contacts (CT) wherein said users (UC) are registered on said web server (FE) and

have access to information and/or data of other users (UC) who make them available,

are able to modify their own personal data,

are able to make searches of public profiles (PF) of other users (UC),

are able to make contact requests to other registered users (UC),

are able to have one or more contacts with website addresses, e-mail addresses, phone and/or mobile numbers,

are able to carry in and/or send information and/or data to programs or devices,

are able to send free or fee-paying messages to their own contacts (CT),

are able to receive messages on the web,

are able to add tags (TG) to their own contacts (CT),

are able to control the status of their own account and to add credit to said account,

are able to control the status of their own profile (PF) and to change said profile (PF).