Patent ID: 8346224

Claim:
A system for rating subscribers, comprising: a plurality of mobile phones, each of said mobile phones being associated with a subscriber and comprising at least one SIM card and each of said mobile phones being configured to communicate with a web-based database associated with the SIM card of said mobile phone and comprising a subscriber profile including subscriber attribute data and subscriber rating data; wherein said at least one SIM card in each of said plurality of mobile phones comprises unique attributes of said mobile phone; wherein when each of said plurality of mobile phones first communicates with said database, the subscriber profile associated with the SIM card of the mobile phone assocaited with that subscriber is created and stored in said database, said subscriber profile comprising at least one of said unique attributes of said mobile phone from said SIM card; wherein each of said subscribers and third parties may access said database and input data regarding a subscriber, said input data being received by said database and added to the subscriber profile; and wherein each subscriber is authorized to input it's associated subscriber attribute data and to only read subscriber rating data and each third party is authorized to input subscriber rating data associated with one or more subscriberss whom that third party has engaged and only to read subscriber attribute data.