System for information delivery facilitating partner rating of users and user ratings of partners

• US 8,484,098 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2011
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Michael Bilotta
• Original Assignee: Michael Bilotta
• Inventors: Bilotta, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): ALLEN, WILLIAM J
• Application Number:
  US13/101,058
• Publication Number:
  US 20120226569A1
• Time in Patent Office: 797 Days
• Field of Search: 705 144- 1473, 705 261- 272, 705/319
• US Class Current: 705/26.7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0202 Market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0254 based on statistics
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0619 Neutral agent
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations

Abstract

A method for enabling a user to view information filtered to align with the user'"'"'s life state includes enabling the user to register and become a member of an information delivery system. The user provides the information about the user'"'"'s life state. This information may include at least demographic information, ethnic information, social information and psychological information. The user may grant partners permission to access the information about the user'"'"'s life. The granting of the permissions is performed and controlled by the user and may be limited to some information about the user'"'"'s life. The partners are also members of the information delivery system. The partners are evaluated using a set of criteria before they become members of the information delivery system. The partners may use the information about the user'"'"'s life to filter its information according to the information about the user'"'"'s life. The method also enables the partner to participate in a marketplace to procure the information about the user'"'"'s life, to rate the user according to the user'"'"'s behavior, and to enable search engines to filter search results according to the information about the user'"'"'s life.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

an information delivery server connected to a network, the information delivery server configured to;

(a) enable a user to provide information about a user'"'"'s life using a client computing system coupled with the information delivery server, wherein the information about the user'"'"'s life includes at least demographic, ethnic, social and

psychological information, and wherein the information about the user'"'"'s life is stored in a database coupled with the information delivery server, the client computing system connected to the network;

(b) enable the user to set parameters that control access to the information about the user'"'"'s life by a partner and volume and frequency of information to be received from the partner on behalf of the user, wherein the information received from the partner is to be aligned with the information about the user'"'"'s life, and wherein the partner is associated with a partner server connected to the network;

(c) enable the partner to rate the user based on whether behavior of the user when the user visits a web site of the partner is aligned with the information about the user'"'"'s life; and

(d) enable the user to rate the partner based on whether the information received from the partner is aligned with the information about the user'"'"'s life.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the information delivery server is further configured to (a) provide a marketplace to enable the partner to purchase the information about the user'"'"'s life and (b) provide a portal to present the information received from the partner to the user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the user and the partner are registered with the information delivery server, and wherein the information delivery server is further configured to (a) receive updated information about the user'"'"'s life from the user via a mobile computing device, (b) enable the partner to access the information about the user'"'"'s life to customize the website of the partner according to the information about the user'"'"'s life, and (c) present the information received from the partner to the user via an appliance or a device capable of enabling the user to view the information.