Patent ID: 8955146
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for online information exchange between users, comprising: a first party platform on a network and collaboration site, the network and collaboration site being hosted on one or more server machines, the first party platform maintaining one or more private workflows, the one or more private workflows being accessible by registered first party users of the network and collaboration site and defining predetermined workflows through which the registered first party users of the network and collaboration site can collaborate, wherein information associated with identification of the registered first party users available to others of the registered first party users in at least some of the one or more private workflows is restricted according to first predetermined criteria; a second party platform on the network and collaboration site, the second party platform regulating access by registered second party users to the registered first party users of the first party platform and to posts in predetermined ones of the one or more private workflows of the first party platform; and a control logic embodied on the one or more server machines and communicatively coupled to the first party platform and the second party platform for registering the first and second party users and for controlling access to the network and collaboration site.