WEB SITES THAT INTRODUCE A SELLER TO A UNIVERSE OF BUYERS, WEB SITES THAT RECEIVE A BUYER'S LISTING OF WHAT HE WANTS TO BUY, OTHER INTRODUCTION WEB SITES, SYSTEMS USING INTRODUCTION WEB SITES AND INTERNET-BASED INTRODUCTIONS
First Claim
1. A method of introducing at least one Buyer to at least one Seller, comprising the steps performed by an automated system of:
- via a website viewable by the Buyer and the Seller, in-taking from the Buyer, in computer-readable form, at least a description of a target item and a price that the Buyer is willing to pay for the target item;
generating an entry for the target item of the Buyer, and posting the entry on the website;
introducing the Buyer to the Seller;
wherein the in-taking, generating, posting and introducing steps are performed by one or more of;
a computer, a computer processor, a computer network, a machine or another non-human instrumentality, or a combination thereof.
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Abstract
An inventive website is used by a seller to find a universe of buyers, and by a buyer to be introduced to a seller without investing much time. The website in-takes a user'"'"'s description of his target item with agreeable price, which gets posted on the website. When a seller encounters a posting for which he wants to be introduced to the poster, he has the system report his interest to the poster and once the poster grants permission, the seller can be introduced to, and directly email, telephone, etc. the poster. The provision of the introduction can be conditioned upon payment by the seller or otherwise. An Identity Scoring system outputs a score indicating the likelihood that the opposite party actually is who claims to be.
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54 Claims
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1. A method of introducing at least one Buyer to at least one Seller, comprising the steps performed by an automated system of:
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via a website viewable by the Buyer and the Seller, in-taking from the Buyer, in computer-readable form, at least a description of a target item and a price that the Buyer is willing to pay for the target item; generating an entry for the target item of the Buyer, and posting the entry on the website; introducing the Buyer to the Seller; wherein the in-taking, generating, posting and introducing steps are performed by one or more of;
a computer, a computer processor, a computer network, a machine or another non-human instrumentality, or a combination thereof.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 53, 54)
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10. The method of claim, including the website'"'"'s in-taking, from a plurality of respective Buyers, descriptions for target items in a plurality of languages and/or alphabets, while also in-taking;
- from a plurality of respective Sellers, search queries in a plurality of languages and/or alphabets.
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21. An Internet-based method of introducing a Seller to a plurality of Buyers, comprising:
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on a website, in-taking from each Buyer of a plurality of Buyers, in computer-readable form, at least a description of a target item along with a price that the Buyer is willing to pay for the target item; from the description of the target item and the price, creating, by operation of a processor, a computer-generated postable entry; conditioning an introduction of the Buyer to the Seller until an event compensating a business entity associated with the website has occurred. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. An Internet-based buyer-seller introduction system, comprising:
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a website including at least one input area configured to receive from a Buyer at least;
(1) a description of a target item and a price that the Buyer is willing to pay for the target item;a computer-implemented entry-creator that, from the description of the target item and the price that have been received in the at least one input area, creates a postable entry; a computer-implemented contact information manager that (1) associates a contact information for the Buyer with the entry; and
(2) maintains the contact information for the Buyer in confidence until a Compensation-to-the-introduction-service Event has occurred;a computer-implemented posting manager that posts the entry to the website. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method of introducing at least one Buyer to at least one Seller, comprising the steps performed by an automated system of:
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via a website viewable by the Buyer and the Seller, in-taking from the Buyer, in computer-readable form, at least a description of a target item and a price that the Buyer is willing to pay for the target item; generating an entry for the target item of the Buyer, and posting the entry on the website; computing an Identity Rating for at least one of the Buyer and the Seller and maintaining the computed Identity Rating in a database as a displayable Identity Rating, the displayable Identity Rating being updatable; re-computing the Identity Rating and updating the displayable Identity Rating in the database to be the re-computed Identity Rating; introducing the Buyer to the Seller; wherein each step is performed by one or more of;
a computer, a computer processor, a computer network, a machine or another non-human instrumentality, or a combination thereof.- View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. An automated seller-side research method, comprising:
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via a website, in computer-readable form, in-taking a search query for a target item being researched by a Seller, the Seller'"'"'s search query having been input by the Seller at an input time; and within seconds of the input time, returning to the Seller a search result, wherein the search result includes;
an entry generated from a description of a target item that was in-taken by the website from a Buyer along with a price that the Buyer is willing to pay that was in-taken by the website from the Buyer, or a link to said entry. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39)
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40. A method of rating an identity claimed by an on-line user, comprising the steps performed by an automated system of:
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for the on-line user who has claimed the identity to the automated system, computing an Identity Rating and maintaining the computed Identity Rating in a database as a displayable identity Rating, the displayable Identity Rating being updatable; re-computing the Identity Rating and updating the displayable Identity Rating in the database to be the re-computed Identity Rating; wherein each step is performed by one or more of;
a computer, a computer processor, a computer network, a machine or another non-human instrumentality, or a combination thereof. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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46. A method of introducing at least one Buyer seeking to obtain an experience to at least one Seller, comprising the steps performed by an automated system of:
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via a website viewable by the Buyer and the Seller, in-taking from the Buyer, in computer-readable form, at least a description of a target item which is an experience and a price that the Buyer is willing to pay for the experience; wherein the in-taking step is performed by one or more of;
a computer, a computer processor, a computer network, a machine or another non-human instrumentality, or a combination thereof. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48, 49)
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50. An Internet-based method for a Seller to pursue selling an item without needing to post an entry for the item, comprising:
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via a website, in computer-readable form, in-taking a search query for a target item being researched by a Seller; returning to the Seller a search result, wherein the search result includes;
an entry generated from a description of a target item that was in-taken by the website from a Buyer along with a price that the Buyer is willing to pay that was in-taken by the website from the Buyer, or a link to said entry. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52)
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