Filtered peer-to-peer business communication in a distributed computer environment

• US 9,224,109 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2007
• Issued: 12/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Blue Yonder Group, Inc. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: JDA Software Group Incorporated (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: English, Jason R.
• Primary Examiner(s): ZUNIGA ABAD, JACKIE
• Application Number:
  US11/876,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20080040499A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,990 Days
• Field of Search: 709201-203
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/025 Coordination of plural reservations, e.g. plural trip segments, transportation combined with accommodation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/103 Workflow collaboration or project management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0257 User requested
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0611 Request for offers or quotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks

Abstract

A method for filtered peer-to-peer business communication in a distributed computer environment includes accessing offers associated with one or more offerors and requests associated with one or more requestors, each offer and each request including a set of filter components. Filter components of offers are compared with corresponding filter components of requests to determine whether one or more offers match one or more requests. A match is determined between an offer and a request if the filter components of the offer match the corresponding filter components of the request. In response, at least a matching portion of the offer and request is replicated and communicated to both the offeror associated with the offer and the requestor associated with the request to provide filtered peer-to-peer communication between the offeror and requestor.

Claims

1. A system for filtered peer-to-peer business communication, the system comprising:

a computer system accessing offers associated with one or more offerors and requests associated with one or more requestors, each offer and each request comprising meta-data; and

a bandwidth gate coupled with the computer system for comparing the meta-data, the meta-data comprising a detail component, the detail component comprises total minimum size of the request, bandwidth requirements of the request, and platform specific tags, wherein the computer system matches, without additional user input, the one or more offers and the one or more requests using the bandwidth gate based on whether the detail component of the one or more offers match the detail component of the one or more requests, replicates a portion of the matching offer and the matching request, and communicates the replicated portion of the matching offer and the matching request to at least one of the one or more offerors associated with the matching offer and at least one of the one or more requestors associated with the matching request.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a relevancy sorter coupled with the computer system for comparing the meta-data, the meta-data further comprising properties components of the one or more offers and the one or more requests.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the computer system further matches the one or more offers and the one or more requests using the relevancy sorter.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a source router coupled with the computer system for comparing the meta-data, the meta-data further comprising source components of the one or more offers and the one or more requests.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the computer system further matches the one or more offers and the one or more requests using the source router.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a channel selector coupled with the computer system for comparing the meta-data, the meta-data further comprising audience components of the one or more offers and the one or more requests.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the computer system further matches the one or more offers and the one or more requests using the channel selector.

8. A computer-implemented method of matching an offer and a request, the method comprising:

selecting, by a computer, one or more offers comprising meta-data;

selecting, by the computer, one or more requests comprising meta-data;

matching, by the computer, and without additional user input, the one or more offers with the one or more requests by using one or more filter components comprising a detail component, the detail component comprising total minimum size of the request, bandwidth requirements of the request, and platform specific tags;

replicating, by the computer, a portion of the matching offer and the matching request; and

communicating, by the computer, the replicated portion of the matching offer and the matching request to at least one of the one or more offerors associated with the matching offer and at least one of the one or more requestors associated with the matching request.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein matching the one or more offers with the one or more requests further comprises using a magnetic interaction paradigm with the one or more filter components.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein matching the one or more offers with the one or more requests further comprises using a multidimensional matching technology with the one or more filter components.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein matching the one or more offers with the one or more requests further comprises using one or more half empty data sets with the one or more filter components.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein transmitting one or more matches to one or more user computers comprises transmitting at least a portion of the one or more offers and at least a portion of the one or more requests.

13. A method of communication using a communication protocol, the method comprising:

providing one or more filter components coupled with a computer system;

providing access to the computer system to a plurality of user computers;

receiving information comprising meta-data comprising one or more filter components from a first user computer of the plurality of user computers;

receiving information comprising meta-data comprising one or more filter components from a second user computer of the plurality of user computers; and

communicating between the first user computer and the second user computer using the computer system by;

matching, without additional user input, the first user computer with the second user computer using at least one of the plurality of filter components comprising a detail component, the detail component comprising total minimum size of the request, bandwidth requirements of the request, and platform specific tags

replicating a portion of the matching detail components; and

communicating the replicated portion of the matching detail component to the first user computer and the second user computer.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising translating the language of the information provided by the first user computer.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising translating the language of the information provided by the second user computer.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the first user computer is an offeror and the second user computer is a requestor.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the first user computer is a requestor and the second user computer is an offeror.

18. The method of claim 13, wherein communicating between the first user computer and the second user computer comprises communication types selected from the group consisting of one to one, one to many, many to one, and many to many.