Assembling personal information of a target person based upon third-party

• US 20020004736A1
• Filed: 02/15/2001
• Published: 01/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Action Engine Corp. (MobUI, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Action Engine Corp. (MobUI, Inc.)
• Inventors: Eisler, Craig G., Roundtree, Brian C.
• Application Number:
  US09/783,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20020004736A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/748 Hypervideo linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object in the context of video distribution systems H04N21/858
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/94 Hypermedia Hyperlinking G06F40/134
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/04 Forecasting or optimisation specially adapted for administrative or management purposes, e.g. linear programming or "cutting stock problem" market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities G06Q30/0202
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0203 Market surveys; Market polls
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

Gathering personal information of a target person based upon third-party information. A user submits a request for personal information of a target person along with a request purposes. A system server identifies persons and entities to contact for responding to the request, and it queries the persons and entities to provide personal information of the target person. Based upon received responses, the system compiles and returns to the requestor the gathered personal information possibly with a personal profile of the target person. The system can also query the target person to receive categories of permitted access to the target person'"'"'s personal information by the requestor.

Claims

1. A method for distributing and providing personal information based upon a user request, comprising:

receiving from a requestor a request for personal information relating to a target person, the request including a request purpose;

requesting the personal information of the target person from a plurality of information sources and based upon the request;

gathering the personal information based upon responses to the requesting; and

providing the gathered personal information to the requester.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the receiving step includes receiving a gift purpose as the request purpose.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the gathering step includes obtaining the personal information from the target person.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the receiving step includes receiving the request from a server and including the request purpose based upon date-related information.

5. The method of claim 1, further including:

transmitting a query to the requester, the query relating to submitting a request for personal information for the target person; and

receiving selection of the query as the request.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the requesting step includes sending messages requesting the personal information from a plurality of persons.

7. The method of claim 1, further including:

sending a request for the personal information to the target person; and

receiving from the target person an indication of permitted access to the personal information.

8. The method of claim 7, further including:

sending to the target person a request for the personal information along with an identification of the requestor; and

receiving from the target person an indication of permitted access to the personal information by the requestor.

9. The method of claim 6, further including identifying the plurality of persons based upon relationships with the target person.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the requesting step includes sending messages requesting the personal information from a plurality of entities.

11. The method of claim 10, further including identifying the plurality of entities based upon previously-gathered personal information of the target person.

12. The method of claim 1, further including querying the requestor to determine if the requestor wants to request additional personal information.

13. The method of claim 1, further including storing the personal information and associating the stored personal information with the target person.

14. The method of claim 1, further including obtaining the personal information from a database storing information related to the target person.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the providing step includes providing at least one of the following to the requester:

an identification of service providers to satisfy the request purpose;

an identification of services to satisfy the request purpose;

an identification of products to satisfy the request purpose;

or profile information relating to the target person.

16. An apparatus for distributing and providing personal information based upon a user request, comprising:

a receive module for receiving from a requestor a request for personal information relating to a target person, the request including a request purpose;

a request module for requesting the personal information of the target person from a plurality of information sources and based upon the request;

a gather module for gathering the personal information based upon responses to the requesting; and

a provide module for providing the gathered personal information to the requestor.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the receive module includes a module for receiving a gift purpose as the request purpose.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the gather module includes a module for obtaining the personal information from the target person.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the receive module includes a module for receiving the request from a server and including the request purpose based upon date-related information.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, further including:

a module for transmitting a query to the requester, the query relating to submitting a request for personal information for the target person; and

a module for receiving selection of the query as the request.

21. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the request module includes a module for sending messages requesting the personal information from a plurality of persons.

22. The apparatus of claim 16, further including:

a module for sending a request for the personal information to the target person; and

a module for receiving from the target person an indication of permitted access to the personal information.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, further including:

a module for sending to the target person a request for the personal information along with an identification of the requester; and

a module for receiving from the target person an indication of permitted access to the personal information by the requester.

24. The apparatus of claim 21, further including a module for identifying the plurality of persons based upon relationships with the target person.

25. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the request module includes a module for sending messages requesting the personal information from a plurality of entities.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, further including a module for identifying the plurality of entities based upon previously-gathered personal information of the target person.

27. The apparatus of claim 16, further including a module for querying the requester to determine if the requestor wants to request additional personal information.

28. The apparatus of claim 16, further including a module for storing the personal information and associating the stored personal information with the target person.

29. The apparatus of claim 16, further including a module for obtaining the personal information from a database storing information related to the target person.

30. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the provide module includes a module for providing at least one of the following to the requestor:

an identification of service providers to satisfy the request purpose;

an identification of services to satisfy the request purpose;

an identification of products to satisfy the request purpose;

or profile information relating to the target person.