Group networking utilizing screening methods

• US 7,756,918 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2002
• Issued: 07/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chua Chien Liang
• Original Assignee: Chua Chien Liang
• Inventors: Liang, Chua Chien
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomas; Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kim; Tae K
• Application Number:
  US10/519,234
• Publication Number:
  US 20050262197A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,940 Days
• Field of Search: 707/7, 707/9, 707/3, 709/202, 709/204, 709/205, 709/218, 709/219, 705/1
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A method to generate a group of entities from a plurality of participating entities, the method comprising: one of the participating entities expressing by indication which others of the participating entities they wish to meet; selecting to be a first member of the group an entity which has indicated at least one other of the participating entities it wishes to meet; adding a new entity to the group by selecting the new entity from the set of indications of the last member added to the group.

Claims

1. A method of generating a group of persons from a plurality of participating persons for enabling networking, said method comprising:

(a) each participating person selecting a set of indications, the set of indications consisting only of at least one other participating person that said each participating person wishes to meet;

(b) recording the set of indications in a database after selecting;

(c) processing the set of indications recorded in the database by a computerized system to form the group, the processing comprising;

(i) including as a first member of the group any participating person who has indicated at least one other participating person in the set of indications, thereby becoming a first last new member of the group;

(ii) including the group only one other participating person indicated in the set of indications of the first last new member of the group, the one other participating person thereby then becoming the a second last new member of the group after joining the group, the second last new member of the group superseding the first last new member of the group, so that there is only one last new member of the group at any point in time;

(iii) including in the group only one other participating person indicated in the set of indications of the second last new member of the group, the one other participating person thereby then becoming a third last new member of the group after joining the group, the third last new member of the group superseding the second last new member of the group, so that there is only one last new member of the group at any point in time; and

(iv) repeatedly including only one new person to the group from the set of indications of the last new member of the group until a new person to be included in the group is already included in the group.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of participating persons are already pre-selected in terms of having already indicated a common time and a common place to meet.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the set of indications is a list of other participating persons that a participating person wishes to meet.

4. A method of generating a group of persons from a plurality of participating persons for enabling networking, said method comprising:

(a) each participating person selecting a set of indications, the set of indications consisting only of at least one other participating person that said each participating person wishes to meet;

(b) recording the set of indications in a database after selecting;

(c) processing the set of indications recorded in the database by a computerized system to form the group, the processing comprising;

(i) including as a first member of the group any participating person who has indicated at least one other participating person in the set of indications, thereby becoming a first last new member of the group;

(ii) including the group only one other participating person indicated in the set of indications of the first last new member of the group, the one other participating person thereby then becoming a second last new member of the group after joining the group, the second last new member of the group superseding the first last new member of the group, so method working in such a way that there is only one last new member of the group at any point in time;

(iii) including in the group only one other participating person indicated in the set of indications of the second last new member of the group, the one other participating person thereby then becoming a third last new member of the group after joining the group, the third last new member of the group superseding the second last new member of the group, so that there is only one last new member of the group at any point in time; and

(iv) repeatedly including only one new person the group from the set of indications of the last new member of the group until a new person to be included in the group is already included in the group.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the set of indications is a list of other participating corporations that a participating corporation wishes to meet.