Patent ID: 7181407
Filing Date: 2007-02-20
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of providing help to people with disabilities, comprising the steps: a) organizing a network of people with disabilities and of volunteers for helping people with disabilities, each of the persons with disabilities and each of the volunteers having a portable, wireless communications device; b) establishing a first database identifying and having information about a plurality of people with disabilities and for each of the persons with disabilities, identifying at least one specific disability said person has; wherein the step of establishing the first database includes the steps of identifying and having information in the first database about each of said plurality of people with disabilities, and for each of said people with disabilities, identifying in the first database, c) establishing a second database identifying a plurality of volunteers, and for each of the volunteers, identifying at least one specific disability said volunteer is willing to assist; wherein the step of establishing the second database includes the steps of identifying in the second database the plurality of volunteers, and for each of said volunteers identifying in the second database, d) after the first and second databases are established, at least one of the persons with disabilities, using one of the wireless communications devices to transmit a request for help; e) in response to said request, using a matching server to obtain information about the person making the request from the pre-established first database and to use that information obtained from the first database to identify in the second database one of the volunteers who is willing to assist with the specific disability said at least one of the persons with disabilities has, f) after said one of the volunteers is identified, using the matching server to notify said one of the volunteers of the request for help via one of the wireless communications devices; and g) the matching server providing information to at least one of (i) said one of the volunteers, or (ii) the person making the request, to enable said one of the volunteers and the person making the request to physically find and meet each other.