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U.S. Application: 15/838,234

Patent Title

Apparatus, methods, or software for data mining user information by providing services over the internet for connecting people.

Meta Information

Appl. No.: 15/838,234
Filed: December 11, 2017
Inventor: William Ho Chang et al

Technical Fields

Internet Communication, Data Mining

Abstract

Sample Claim

A method of data mining user information for connecting a first party with a second party over the Internet, the first party and the second party operating respectively a first station and a second station, each station being Internet enabled for transmitting and receiving data to and from a controller, the Internet being at least a packet data network, the controller operating, at least partly, as a service over the Internet to the first and second party, the method comprising:

(1) data mining, by the controller and at the first station, information on the first party operating the first station, based, at least in part, on data collected, from the first station by the controller from a history of transactions involving one or more transactions that are associated with the first party over the Internet;

(2) data mining, by the controller and at the second station, information on the second party at the second station, based, at least in part, on data collected, from the second station by the controller and from a history of transactions involving one or more transactions that are associated with the second party over the Internet;

(3) verifying, by the controller, identity of the first party at the first station;

(4) creating, by the controller, a proposed first party transaction specification, the proposed first party transaction specification specifying at least a proposed transaction between the first party and the second party, the creating of the proposed first party transaction specification employing, at least in part, the data mining information on the first and second parties collected by the controller in (1) and in (2);

(5) generating, by the controller, a reference code for supplying to the first party at the first station, the reference code being associated, at least partly, with the proposed first party transaction specification created by the controller in (4), and the reference code having a relationship, at least partly, to the second party;

(6) supplying, by the controller, the reference code generated in (5) to the first party at the first station over the Internet, the supplying of the reference code being based on the controller having verified the identity of the first party at the first station in (3); and

(7) receiving, by the controller, a connection request over the Internet from the first party, at the first station, for connecting to the second party, the connection request from the first party employing, at least in part, the reference code previously supplied by the controller in (6) to the first party at the first station; and
wherein a connection between the first party and the second party over the Internet is made without requiring the first party and the second party to provide a transaction specification to the controller specifying a transaction between the first party and the second party prior to the controller creating the proposed first party transaction specification in (4), and wherein the proposed first party transaction specification, which is created by the controller in (4), is not created by the first party at the first station and is not created by the second party at the second station.