Patent ID: 7925542
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for sharing wish list information between users, the method comprising the steps of: maintaining, with a computer, a plurality of wish lists in a wish list repository on a particular portal on a network for a plurality of users on said particular portal, each of said wish lists being associated with a specific user and comprising at least items offered for sale by a third party not associated with a wish list, said items being identified by an associated user as being desired by said associated user; making, with the computer, each wish list associated with each user of said plurality of users automatically viewable to said associated user and to other users of said plurality of users; wherein said plurality of users are buddies with said associated user in an instant messaging application and have access to said associated user's wish list through their buddy properties; attaching, with the computer, said items on said wish list to a wallet account of said associated user in a wallet repository on aid particular portal on said network; receiving, with the computer, gifts including receiving requests from multiple users of said other users than can automatically view said wish list to contribute funds to said wallet account towards a purchase of an item on an associated user's wish list as a gift for said associated user, wherein each of said multiple users has a wallet account in said wallet repository; said multiple users contributing, with the computer, funds from said each wallet account to said wallet account of said associated user towards said purchase; storing, with the computer, an indication of an amount of contributed funds in said associated user's wallet account; allowing for automatically and electronically executing, with the computer, a purchase of said item as a gift for said associated user upon said contributed funds equaling a purchase price of said item; updating, with the computer, said associated user's wish list to delete said purchased item from said wish list and said buddy properties.