Patent ID: 9070145
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method being implemented by an improved computer system programmed for rating of businesses in accordance with the method, comprising: prior to allowing each consumer to rate at least one business, causing, by a specially programmed computer rating system, via a computer network, to concurrently display at least one first graphical user interface to each consumer of a plurality of consumers on respective computing devices of the plurality of consumers, wherein the at least one first graphical user interface is configured to electronically obtain from each consumer from of the plurality of consumers at least: a) personal identifying information of such consumer to validate an identity of such consumer; and b) a confirmation that such consumer meets a plurality of requirements to be satisfied for rating a business, wherein the plurality of requirements comprise: c) responses to a plurality of pre-qualification verification questions which: wherein the plurality of consumers comprises at least one thousand consumers; validating, by the specially programmed computer rating system, each consumer based on the personal identifying information of such consumer; based on the validating and the confirmation, causing, by the specially programmed computer rating system, via the computer network, to concurrently display at least one second graphical user interface to each of a plurality of validated consumers on the respective computing devices of the plurality of validated consumers, wherein the at least one second graphical user interface is configured to display at least one consumer rating survey having a predetermined number of questions for rating the at least one business of the plurality of businesses, wherein the predetermined number of questions are divided into a plurality of groups, wherein each group of questions is correlated to a respective rating category of a plurality of rating categories, comprising at least the following rating categories: 1) service, 2) value, 3) ethics, 4) competence, 5) environment, and 6) price; wherein the predetermined number of questions of the consumer rating survey is at least twenty five questions; wherein the at least one second graphical user interface is further configured to allow each validated consumer of the plurality of validated consumers to select an anonymity level, identifying how much of the personal identifying information of such validated consumer to be disclosed with the rating; wherein the plurality of businesses comprises at least one thousand businesses; electronically receiving, by the specially programmed computer matching system, via the computer network, from at least one first validated consumer of the plurality of validated consumers, utilizing at least one first computing device, responses to the at least one consumer rating survey having the predetermined number of questions; analyzing, by the specially programmed computer rating system, for the at least one business of the plurality of businesses, the responses based, at least in part, on predictive analytics to calculate or recalculate a respective rating category score for each of the respective rating category of the plurality of rating categories, comprising at least the following rating categories: 1) service, 2) value, 3) ethics, 4) competence, 5) environment, and 6) price; and for the at least one business of the plurality of businesses, causing, via the computer network, by the specially programmed computer rating system, to concurrently output to at least one first group of the plurality of consumers, utilizing at least one third graphical user interface on respective computing devices of the at least one first group of the plurality of consumers, the respective rating category scores for the at least the following rating categories: 1) service, 2) value, 3) ethics, 4) competence, 5) environment, and 6) price.