Inventors:
Daniel Burnstein - Brookline MA, US
Carl Crawford - Brookline MA, US
James Karet - Worcester MA, US
Jay Lebed - Brookline MA, US
Jeffrey Starfield - Watertown AZ, US
George Wood - Scottsdale AZ, US
International Classification:
G06F015/16
Abstract:
An automatic telephone, Internet or intranet community formation system that utilizes spoken words or matching search terms. The invention utilizes wireless and wired voice communications, database and list serve technology to archive and match users based upon their search terms entered into a telephone system or a search engine, Internet, intranet, extranet, local area network, wide area networked, wired, wireless or standalone computer. A community formation system refers to a means of inviting one or more persons to communicate via voice, email or other method and join in a discussion. Invitations to join would be sent via an email, SMS, instant messaging, phone, web browser, email or fax communication. The user would have control over whether s/he wanted to be invited into a community, the age of desired matches, the closeness or breadth of the matches, the duration of the community, and the type of community—voice or text. Also, users have the ability to a.) conduct joint searches and b.) jointly and severally rate the content information, websites, or other subjects, and c.) to pick settings to establish his or her actual identity or to adopt an anonymous identity.
