Patent ID: 8131586

Claim:
A personalized consumer to business matchmaking system, the personalized consumer to business matchmaking system comprising: a business profile configured to contain business-relevant information, wherein the business-relevant information includes corporate-specific and corporate-desired data relevant to a particular business; a searching consumer's profile configured to contain searching consumer-relevant information, wherein the searching consumer-relevant information includes consumer-specific and consumer-desired data relevant to the searching consumer for desired businesses, and wherein the searching consumer's profile is compared against the business profile to derive a Searching Consumer to Business Match Score (SCBMS); a plurality of consumer profiles for a plurality of business evaluators, wherein the plurality of business evaluators has previously reviewed, rated, and/or evaluated the particular business and wherein the plurality of consumer profiles for the plurality of business evaluators is used to derive a Searching Consumer to Consumer Match Score (SCCMS) and a Consumer to Business Match Score (CBMS); a Consumer Status Score (CSS) calculator configured to measure a first business rating tendency displayed by the searching consumer against a second business rating tendency displayed by the plurality of business evaluators; a Business Rating Average (BRA) calculator configured to provide a BRA value for the particular business rated by the plurality of business evaluators; and a consumer rating calculator configured to provide a weighted value to the BRA value for the particular business given by the plurality of business evaluators by incorporating the Searching Consumer to Consumer Match Score (SCCMS), wherein the weighted value is called a Consumer to Business Rating (CSBR).