Patent ID: 11966429
Assignee: ON TIME STAFFING INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 23:
24. A method comprising:
a) at a system server, accessing temporary forum data and permanent forum data that together relate to a plurality of individuals associating skills with a first set of individual identifiers;
b) at the system server, receiving first contribution data identifying a first individual identifier and a first contribution made to a third-party forum;
c) at the system server, identifying a contribution skill and a contribution point value for the first contribution data;
d) at the system server, establishing within the temporary forum data:
i) a first skill association between the first individual identifier and the contribution skill;
ii) a first point association between the first individual identifier and the contribution point value;

e) at the system server, receiving a query identifying a query skill from a search user device;
f) at the system server, searching both the temporary forum data and permanent forum data for individual identifiers associated with the query skill;
g) at the system server, returning search results to the search user device;
h) at the system server, identifying a time-to-live clock expiration associated with the first individual identifier and, as a consequence, deleting the first skill association and the first point association from the temporary forum data;
i) at the system server, receiving a request to restore data associated with the first individual identifier, and in response to receiving the request:
i) identifying credentials associated with the first individual identifier at the third-party forum;
ii) at the system server and using the credentials, requesting and receiving prior contributions previously made in association with the credentials at the third-party forum;
iii) at the system server, for each of the prior contributions, determining an identified skill and an identified point value, and establishing, within the permanent forum data, associations between the first individual identifier and the identified skills and the identified point values.