Enable user to establish request data specific connections with other users of network(s) for communication, participation and collaboration

• US 9,922,124 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2016
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2016
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yogesh Rathod
• Original Assignee: Yogesh Rathod
• Inventors: Rathod, Yogesh
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Torres, Ayesha Huertas
• Application Number:
  US15/011,470
• Publication Number:
  US 20160132608A1
• Time in Patent Office: 781 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A methods, systems, device, network, platform and apparatus for enabling user(s) to connect contextually with any other users of network(s) based on matching user created and/or dynamic & automatic generated request data and/or user data with user request(s) and/or user data of other users of network and enabling connected users to conduct plurality types of activities, actions, transactions, events, interactions, registering, accessing, messaging, communication, sharing, searching, collaboration and participating activities of each others.

Claims

1. A method for connecting a user to contextual users of network, the method comprising:

a) identify by the server system, user'"'"'s one or more roles, current activities, prospective activities that user wants to conduct, purposes, relationships, interacted or participated activities, contacts and entities, current or past locations and places, item names, attributes, ontology, profile fields and associated values, date &

time and conditions based on structured status, search query, structured request and user data for enabling user to contextually connect with other users of network;

b) identifying and applying by the server system one or more pre-defined or updated rules and functions via rule-based system and contextual pre-stored connections data based on identified user'"'"'s one or more roles, current activities, prospective activities that user wants to conduct, purposes, relationships, interacted or participate activities, contacts and entities, current or past locations and places, item names, attributes, ontology, profile fields and associated values, date &

time and conditions for enabling user to contextually connect with other users of network;

c) searching and matching by the server system, connectable connections or users of network based on identified user'"'"'s one or more roles, current activities, prospective activities that user wants to conduct, purposes, relationships, interacted or participate activities, contacts and entities, current or past locations and places, item names, attributes, ontology, profile fields and associated values, date &

time, conditions and identified and applied rules and functions;

d) serve by the server system, said searched and matched connectable connections or users of network; and

e) enabling by the server system, to auto connect or enabling user to select from said connectable connections or users of network and connecting with said selected connectable connections or users of network.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein, serve by the server system, for user selection or access contextual or connection specific or identified prospective one or more activities or purpose specific or said connected users specific one or more applications, features, options, user actions, interfaces, web services, web page, website, controls, objects, widgets, forms, data or media or content and any combination thereof based on identified user'"'"'s one or more roles, current activities, prospective activities that user wants to conduct, purposes, relationships, interacted or participate activities, contacts and entities, current or past locations and places, item names, attributes, ontology, profile fields and associated values, date &

time, conditions and identified and applied rules and functions for communication, collaboration, sharing, creating connections, social networking, conducting or enable to conduct one or more activities, actions, events, workflow, tasks, transactions, providing or consuming one or more types of user services and participation among connected users.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein, enabling user to prepare structured status and structured request by selecting or selecting from suggested one or more pre-categories and pre-stored and updated parts including name and types of roles, actors, current activities, prospective activities that user wants to conduct, purposes, relationships, interacted or participated activities, contacts and entities, current or past locations and places, item names, attributes, ontology, profile fields and associated values, identities, contextual, form fields and associated values or information, date &

time, conditions, preferences, actions, events, status, presence information, transactions, names, nodes, properties, objects, data types, programming syntax, structured syntax, schema, ranges, Boolean operators, keywords, phrases, grammar syntax, semantic syntax, structured query language syntax, requirement specifications, metadata, privacy, settings, rules, commands, groups, categories, taxonomies and types.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein, searching and matching by the server system, connectable connections or users of network based on structured status, search query, structured request, user data, store or updated or real-time identified request, requirement specification, structured query language (SQL) query, search query, templates, domain or field or subject specific forms &

associate data, wizard, keywords, category, taxonomy, ontology, semantic syntax, question, pre-identified or pre-stored or pre-configured type of relationships, activities, actions, events, transactions, locations, places, role, task, requirement, entity specific connections or connection possibilities or contextual users for connection, database or data table(s) field(s) and associate value(s), additional requested information from user, date &

time, schedule, auto identified needs or interaction or connection requirement base on rules, ontology, metadata, context data, system data, database, past connection logs, past bookmarked connected users, registered with connected users, created connections list, user reference for one or more connections, location, check-in place, status, user availability, online or offline status, user rank, number of points, user selections of one or more preferences, determined domain or subject or location or entity or place or event specific filled partial or full forms, privacy settings, user profile including name, age, gender, language, income range, qualification, education, role &

skills information, interest information, employment information or job profile, business information, and information about various interacted or related or participated or transacted entities, user data or user generated or provided or shared or communication or messaging data or auto identified user related data, user contacts &

connections, past logs, information or log of user activities, actions, events, transactions, senses, location &

updates and any combination thereof.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein, add points to user account based on connect with one or more type or category or context of users of network, number of times &

number of duration of participation, conduction of one or more activities, actions, transactions, tasks, workflow, sharing, messaging, ranking, reviewing &

communications, user'"'"'s participation with other users of networks, number of times user spent for communicating, messaging for other users of networks, number of users connected with users, total ranks received by user from other users of networks, number of times other users bookmarked user, number of times other users invite &

add user to their contact list, number of comments &

reviews provided by other users of network to user, number of times user is referred by other users, number of messages sent by users for other users, total amount of purchase transactions conducted by/via user(s), total number of clicks or impressions on user shared contents received by user, total number or types of actions on shared contents received by user from other users of networks, total number of &

duration of communication, connections, messaging &

collaborative activity sessions, points purchased or received by user(s) and plurality types of other factors.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein, deduct points from user account based on requesting of connecting with one or more users of network or one or more types of category or context of users of network, requirement or usage of number of times &

number of duration of participation, conduction of one or more activities, actions, transactions, tasks, workflow, sharing, messaging, ranking, reviewing &

communications from searched or matched or contextually identified or subscribed or selected or connected or purchased connections.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein, enabling user to search, match, invite, request to connect, select, purchase, subscribe, bookmark, bid, allow or dis-allow to access, apply privacy settings, preferences, rules &

policy to access, connect, re-connect, dis-connect, add, remove, block, unblock, report, update, show, hide, reconnect, pause, set status, refer, share, rank, sort and filter one or more connected users or connectable users or users of network.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein, configuring the server system for creating and updating of social graph of user(s) and/or network(s) and storing &

updating information about and information associate with connections between/among nodes including connected users, identities, named entities or objects, applications, services, profile objects, type of contents, wherein information about connections or log between/among nodes may include monitoring, tracking, sensing, identifying, detecting, recording, storing, indexing, processing, structuring, formatting connected users activities, actions, transactions, contacts, events, interactions, senses, responses, requests, messages, communications, shared contents, behavior, locations, user generated content or data.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein, providing searching functionality to users of network(s) to search &

match users of network(s) based on one or more search criteria and preferences and enable to select from searched users of network for establishing connection with them based on invitation and/or purchasing selected connections or subscribing connections for dynamically search, match, use &

access connections, wherein purchasing selected connections or subscribing access rights of connecting set of users may comprises using subscribed or purchased selected connections for particular number of times, for particular type of activities, for advertising, marketing &

conducting e-commerce transactions, access connection for particular period of time or duration and access as per one or associated, defined, customized rules, policies, agreements, permissions, access rights &

privileges, subscription models &

privacy settings.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein, enabling advertiser(s) to bid for presenting advertisement or connecting with users or customers or prospective customers for/base on particular keywords, categories, user request data, wherein server matches advertisement criteria including keywords, phrases, categories, location, language and connection requirements with user'"'"'s data &

request(s) data and prioritizing in connecting requestors or users or customers or prospective customers with advertisers or administrators or sales representatives of advertisers based on highest or updated or competitive bid(s) for pay per connection and pay per connected user'"'"'s action.

11. A system for connecting a user to contextual users of network, the system comprises:

a) the server system configured to identify user'"'"'s one or more roles, current activities, prospective activities that user wants to conduct, purposes, relationships, interacted or participated activities, contacts and entities, current or past locations and places, item names, attributes, ontology, profile fields and associated values, date &

time and conditions based on structured status, search query, structured request and user data for enabling user to contextually connect with other users of network;

b) the server system configured to identify and apply one or more pre-defined or updated rules and functions via rule-based system and contextual pre-stored connections data based on identified user'"'"'s one or more roles, current activities, prospective activities that user wants to conduct, purposes, relationships, interacted or participate activities, contacts and entities, current or past locations and places, item names, attributes, ontology, profile fields and associated values, date &

time and conditions for enabling user to contextually connect with other users of network;

c) the server system configured to search and match connectable connections or users of network based on identified user'"'"'s one or more roles, current activities, prospective activities that user wants to conduct, purposes, relationships, interacted or participate activities, contacts and entities, current or past locations and places, item names, attributes, ontology, profile fields and associated values, date &

time, conditions and identified and applied rules and functions;

d) the server system configured to serve said searched and matched connectable connections or users of network; and

e) the server system enabled to auto connect or allowing user to select from said connectable connections or users of network and connecting with said selected connectable connections or users of network.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein, the server system enabled to serve contextual or connection specific or identified prospective one or more activities or purpose specific or said connected users specific one or more applications, features, options, user actions, interfaces, web services, web page, website, controls, objects, widgets, forms, data or media or content and any combination thereof based on identified user'"'"'s one or more roles, current activities, prospective activities that user wants to conduct, purposes, relationships, interacted or participate activities, contacts and entities, current or past locations and places, item names, attributes, ontology, profile fields and associated values, date &

time, conditions and identified and applied rules and functions for communication, collaboration, sharing, creating connections, social networking, conducting or enable to conduct one or more activities, actions, events, workflow, tasks, transactions, providing or consuming one or more types of user services and participation among connected users.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein, user enabled to prepare structured status and structured request by selecting or selecting from suggested one or more pre-categories and pre-stored and updated parts including name and types of roles, actors, current activities, prospective activities that user wants to conduct, purposes, relationships, interacted or participated activities, contacts and entities, current or past locations and places, item names, attributes, ontology, profile fields and associated values, identities, contextual, form fields and associated values or information, date &

time, conditions, preferences, actions, events, status, presence information, transactions, names, nodes, properties, objects, data types, programming syntax, schema, ranges, Boolean operators, keywords, phrases, grammar syntax, semantic syntax, structured query language syntax, requirement specifications, metadata, privacy, settings, rules, commands, groups, categories, taxonomies and types.

14. The system of claim 11 wherein the server system configured to search and match connectable connections or users of network based on current or past structured status, search queries, structured requests, user data, store or updated or real-time identified request, requirement specification, structured query language (SQL) query, search query, templates, domain or field or subject specific forms &

associate data, wizard, keywords, category, taxonomy, ontology, semantic syntax, question, pre-identified or pre-stored or pre-configured type of relationships, activities, actions, events, transactions, locations, places, role, task, requirement, entity specific connections or connection possibilities or contextual users for connection, database or data table(s) field(s) and associate value(s), additional requested information from user, date &

time, schedule, auto identified needs or interaction or connection requirement base on rules, ontology, metadata, context data, system data, database, past connection logs, past bookmarked connected users, registered with connected users, created connections list, user reference for one or more connections, location, check-in place, status, user availability, online or offline status, user rank, number of points, user selections of one or more preferences, determined domain or subject or location or entity or place or event specific filled partial or full forms, privacy settings, user profile including name, age, gender, language, income range, qualification, education, role &

skills information, interest information, employment information or job profile, business information, and information about various interacted or related or participated or transacted entities, user data or user generated or provided or shared or communication or messaging data or auto identified user related data, user contacts &

connections, past logs, information or log of user activities, actions, events, transactions, senses, location &

updates and any combination thereof.

15. The system of claim 11 wherein add points to user account based on connect with one or more type or category or context of users of network, number of times &

number of duration of participation, conduction of one or more activities, actions, transactions, tasks, workflow, sharing, messaging, ranking, reviewing &

communications, user'"'"'s participation with other users of networks, number of times user spent for communicating, messaging for other users of networks, number of users connected with users, total ranks received by user from other users of networks, number of times other users bookmarked user, number of times other users invite &

add user to their contact list, number of comments &

reviews provided by other users of network to user, number of times user is referred by other users, number of messages sent by users for other users, total amount of purchase transactions conducted by/via user(s), total number of clicks or impressions on user shared contents received by user, total number or types of actions on shared contents received by user from other users of networks, total number of &

duration of communication, connections, messaging &

collaborative activity sessions, points purchased or received by user(s) and plurality types of other factors.

16. The system of claim 11 wherein deduct points from user account based on requesting of connecting with one or more users of network or one or more types of category or context of users of network, requirement or usage of number of times &

number of duration of participation, conduction of one or more activities, actions, transactions, tasks, workflow, sharing, messaging, ranking, reviewing &

communications from searched or matched or contextually identified or subscribed or selected or connected or purchased connections.

17. The system of claim 11 wherein the server system configured to search, match, invite, request to connect, select, purchase, subscribe, bookmark, bid, allow or dis-allow to access, apply privacy settings, preferences, rules &

policy to access, connect, re-connect, dis-connect, add, remove, block, unblock, report, update, show, hide, reconnect, pause, set status, refer, share, rank, sort and filter one or more connected users or connectable users or users of network.

18. The system of claim 11 wherein the server system configured to create and update social graph of user(s) and/or network(s) and storing &

updating information about and information associate with connections between/among nodes including connected users, identities, named entities or objects, applications, services, profile objects, type of contents, wherein information about connections or log between/among nodes may include monitoring, tracking, sensing, identifying, detecting, recording, storing, indexing, processing, structuring, formatting connected users activities, actions, transactions, contacts, events, interactions, senses, responses, requests, messages, communications, shared contents, behavior, locations, user generated content or data.

19. The system of claim 11 wherein user is provided with search functionality to search &

match users of network(s) based on one or more search criteria and preferences and enable to select from searched users of network to establish connection with them based on invitation and/or purchasing of selected connections or subscribing of connections for dynamically search, match, use &

access connections, wherein purchase selected connections or subscribe access rights of connecting set of users may comprises use subscribed or purchased selected connections for particular number of times, for particular type of activities, for advertising, marketing &

conducting e-commerce transactions, access connection for particular period of time or duration and access as per one or associated, defined, customized rules, policies, agreements, permissions, access rights &

privileges, subscription models &

privacy settings.

20. The system of claim 11 wherein, advertiser adapted to bid to present advertisements or connecting with users or customers or prospective customers for/based on particular keywords, categories, user request data, wherein server matches advertisement criteria including keywords, phrases, categories, location, language and connection requirements with user'"'"'s data &

request(s) data and prioritizing in connecting requestors or users or customers or prospective customers with advertisers or administrators or sales representatives of advertisers based on highest or updated or competitive bid(s) for pay per connection and pay per connected user'"'"'s action.