Patent ID: 9473447
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An electronic communication system hosted on one or more servers communicating with a plurality of user devices via one or more digital communication networks, the servers having one or more processors and memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processors, cause the servers to perform a method comprising: receiving user-input from an opening user via communication between a user device associated with said opening user and one or more of said servers, the user-input to include (a) opening dialog content, and (b) individual identification of one or more target responders; alerting the target responders to the opening dialog content by conveying information to one or more user devices associated with each of the target responders; making the opening dialog content available via request to a networked database; and accepting responses to said opening dialog content from user devices associated with the target responders, the opening user or one or more other users; making the opening dialog content and content from each of the responses available only to each of the target responders and the opening user, without revealing a contributor's electronic contact address to other target responders.