Patent ID: 6629083
Filing Date: 2003-09-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method for exchanging services between members in a group utilizing a network, comprising:establishing at least two groups, each said group having at least two members, each member having access to a communications device; determining a point value system for exchanging services between members within each said group; linking a host computer to each said member's communications devices, said host computer maintaining each said group's point value system; determining which members of each said group have the highest negative point account by said host computer; requesting a service by one of said members in one of said groups via said communications device from at least one of the other members in said same group; sending said service request to said member of said group with the highest number of negative points first; starting a timer, wherein if said member in said same group with the highest number of negative points does not respond before said timer elapses, said service request is sent to said member in said same group with the next highest number of negative points; accepting via said computer communications device and performing said service request by one of the other members in said same group; and automatically adjusting a point account maintained on said host computer for the member of said group performing the service and the member of said group requesting the service according to said point value system upon completion of the service.