Social-marketplace system and method

• US 10,269,051 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2014
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fullglass, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Fullglass, Inc.
• Inventors: Salameh, Mark, Linsenbach, Devin
• Primary Examiner(s): Haq, Naeem U
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sutch, Jr., Norman Donald
• Application Number:
  US14/555,630
• Publication Number:
  US 20150149321A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,608 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0613 Third-party assisted
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

The present invention discloses a system and method for facilitating commerce between accounts of individual client computing devices with preexisting relationship and more particularly, a system and a method that provides a host computing platform to enable related client accounts of client computing devices to transact products, with an embodiment of the present invention associating the host computing platform with a network-based social-media platform.

Claims

1. A transaction system, comprising:

a plurality of client computing devices that are networked by one or more server computing machines of a first network and a second network;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network enable establishment of a relationship between two or more accounts of two or more client computing devices of the plurality of client computing devices of the first network based on a predetermined criteria, with the two or more client computing devices with related accounts established by the one or more server computing machines of the second network forming related client computing devices on the second network;

one or more server computing machines of the second network allow transaction between the related client computing devices only, while excluding non-related but networked client computing devices of the first network from transaction within the second network;

wherein;

the relationship of related client computing devices is updated by the one or more server computing machines of the second network when a related client computing device of the plurality of client computing devices connects to the second network in accordance with;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network transmitting to the first network a request of accounts of one or more client computing devices that are networked with the related client computing device on the first network;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network receives the networked accounts of one or more client computing devices on first network that are networked with the related client computing device on the first network;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network deletes existing related accounts of client computing devices on the second network that are related to the related client computing device;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network establishes a new set of related client computing devices on the second network for the related client computing device based on the received networked accounts of the related client computing device on the first network in accordance with;

the second network parsing through user accounts of the client computing device from the first network to determine a match with a client identification record on an electronic client record of the second network.

2. A transaction system, comprising:

a plurality of client computing devices that are networked by one or more server computing machines of a first network;

the one or more server computing machines of the first network enable establishment of a relationship between two or more accounts of two or more client computing devices of the plurality of client computing devices based on a first predetermined criteria, with the two or more client computing devices with networked accounts forming networked client computing devices;

two or more of the networked client computing devices are further networked on one or more server computing machines of a second network that is associated with the one or more server computing machines of the first network based on a second predetermined criteria to form related client computing devices;

one or more server computing machines of the second network allow transaction between the related client computing devices only, while excluding non-related client computing devices from transactions on the second network

wherein;

the association of networked client computing devices to form related client computing devices is updated when a related client computing device connects to the second network in accordance with;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network transmitting to the first network a request of accounts of one or more client computing devices that are networked with the related client computing device on the first network;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network receive the networked accounts of one or more client computing devices on the first network that are networked with the related client computing device on the first network;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network delete existing related accounts of client computing devices on the second network that are related to the related client computing device;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network establish a new set of related client computing devices on the second network for the related client computing device based on the received networked accounts of the related client computing device on the first network in accordance with;

the second network parsing through user account of the client computing device from the first network to determine a match with a client identification record on an electronic client record of the second network.

3. A method for transaction, comprising:

networking client computing devices on a first network;

establishing a relationship between accounts of two or more networked client computing devices on a second network to form related computing devices;

allowing transactions only between two or more networked client computing devices with established relationships on a second network while excluding other networked client computing devices from transaction

updating the established relationship between accounts of networked client computing devices on the second network when a networked client computing device of two or more network client computing devices connects to the networked client computing devices of the second network in accordance with;

one or more server computing machines of the second network transmitting to the first network a request of accounts of one or more client computing devices that are networked with a related client computing device on the first network;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network receive the networked accounts of one or more client computing devices on first network that are networked with the related client computing device on the first network;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network delete existing related accounts of client computing devices on the second network that are related to the related client computing device;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network establish a new set of related client computing devices on the second network for the related client computing device based on the received networked accounts of the related client computing device on the first network in accordance with;

the second network parsing through user account of the client computing device from the first network to determine a match with a client identification record on an electronic client record of the second network.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, comprising:

establishing relationships on a second network between two or more accounts of networked client computing devices on a first network based on a predetermined criteria, resulting in related client devices;

allowing transaction only between the related client computing devices with established relationship between accounts, while excluding networked but non-related client computing devices;

updating the established relationship of related client devices on the second network when a related client device connects to the second network in accordance with;

one or more server computing machines of the second network transmitting to the first network a request of accounts of one or more client computing devices that are networked with the related client computing device on the first network;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network receive the networked accounts of one or more client computing devices on first network that are networked with the related client computing device on the first network;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network delete existing related accounts of client computing devices on the second network that are related to the related client computing device;

the one or more server computing machines of the second network establish a new set of related client computing devices on the second network for the related client computing device based on the received networked accounts of the related client computing device on the first network in accordance with;

the second network parsing through user account of the client computing device from the first network to determine a match with a client identification record on an electronic client record of the second network.

5. A method for transacting, comprising:

receiving, at a network-based social-marketplace platform configured to provide marketplace functions and corresponding to a website, a request for a product from a client computing device for transaction;

forwarding a list of products of only related client computing devices that are related to the client computing device of the network-based social-marketplace platform, while excluding a list of products of non-related client computing devices;

updating the relationship of related client computing devices when a related client computing device connects to the network-based social-marketplace platform in accordance with;

the one or more server computing machines of the network-based social-marketplace platform transmitting to a first network a request of accounts of one or more client computing devices that are networked with the related client computing device on the first network;

the one or more server computing machines of the network-based social-marketplace platform receive the networked accounts of one or more client computing devices on the first network that are networked with the related client computing device on the first network;

the one or more server computing machines of the network-based social-marketplace platform delete existing related accounts of client computing devices on the network-based social-marketplace platform that are related to the related client computing device;

the one or more server computing machines of the network-based social-marketplace platform establish a new set of related client computing devices on the network-based social-marketplace platform for the related client computing device based on the received networked accounts of the related client computing device on the first network;

wherein;

the network-based social-marketplace platform parses through user accounts of the client computing device from the first network to determine a match with a client identification on an electronic client record of network-based social-marketplace platform.

6. The method for transacting as set forth in claim 5, wherein:

the client computing devices are determined to be related based on an electronic client relations record that is generated by the network-based social-marketplace platform.

7. The method for transacting as set forth in claim 5, wherein:

the electronic client relations record includes;

client identification information of a client account associated with client computing device; and

a related client identification information of related client account associated with a related client computing device.

8. The method for transacting as set forth in claim 7, wherein:

the related client identification information is generated from a user account of the client computing device on network-based social-media platform with which the network-based social-marketplace platform is associated.

9. The method for transacting as set forth in claim 6, wherein:

the related client identification information is obtained by electronic invitation.

10. The method for transacting as set forth in claim 6, wherein:

the electronic invitation is forwarded to other client computing devices from the client computing device.