Patent ID: 9237123
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method to assist an end user of a first site to gather information about a business from other end users, the method comprising: facilitating, by a first computer system that provides the first site, user-selectable options to make individual selections, by a plurality of end users, of one or more businesses to retain information corresponding to the one or more businesses by the first computer system as associated with individual end users of the plurality of end users, wherein the individual selections correspond to indications of preference for the one or more businesses; processing, by the first computer system, indicia of selections made by each end user of the plurality of end users, the indicia being received by the first computer system via a network; retaining, by the first computer system, collections of business information in one or more repositories, each collection of the collections of business information: processing, by the first computer system, first information enabling identification of a first end user; processing, by the first computer system, second information corresponding to a selection by the first end user via the first site to request information regarding the business and/or a business category; responsive to the selection by the first end user via the first site to request information regarding the business and/or the business category, determining, by the first computer system, a set of one or more end users of the first site and/or of a second site based at least in part on identifying one or more prior activities of the one or more end users related to the business and/or the business category, wherein: directing, by the first computer system, a question formed about the business and/or the business category to the set of one or more end users; receiving, by the first computer system, a set of one or more answers to the question from at least one end user of the set of one or more end users; and responsive to receiving by the first computer system the set of one or more answers to the question, generating, by the first computer system, a notification for the first end user of the set of one or more answers to the question, the generating the notification comprising: