Patent ID: 8635215

Claim:
A method for brokering of at least one of know-how and skills in various formats between users on an electronic web service platform, wherein the method includes the steps of: remotely accessing the electronic web service platform by a first user and a second user; requesting registration data from the first user and the second user on the electronic web service platform, wherein real identity information of the first user or the second user is stored in a user database and the first user or the second user is kept anonymous to other users of the electronic web service platform based on user preferences associated with the first user or the second user; managing interest area categories, wherein the managing includes displaying of the interest area categories and enabling amendments of the interest area categories by an administrator; receiving an offer from the first user for the at least one of know-how and skills in at least one interest area category, wherein the first user is a provider and receiving the offer includes requesting a selection of the at least one interest area category and a definition of a format of the offer, the format including at least one of answering questions, chatting on a topic, providing data, documents, programs or tools and doing work under specified conditions; receiving a search from the second user for the at least one of know-how and skills in an interest category included in the at least one interest area category, wherein the second user is a consumer; determining dependencies between the second user and other consumers based at least in part on determining whether the second user and the other consumers formerly rated each other in interest areas similar to the interest area category; receiving ratings for the first user in the interest area category from the other consumers; weighting the ratings for the second user based on the dependencies, the weighting including giving significance to the ratings from the other consumers that formerly received positive ratings from the second user in the interest areas similar to the interest area category; calculating and providing a first rating associated with the offer and the search in the interest area category based on the weighted ratings and the received ratings for the first user, wherein the first rating corresponds to a quality of the first user's know-how or skills in the interest area category; selecting the offer from the first user by the second user based on the first rating; approving the offer of an exchange of credit points and of at least one of know-how and work to be done; conveying the at least one of know-how and work to be done from the first user to the second user and booking a transfer of the credit points; and accepting and storing a second rating given to the first user by the second user based on the at least one of know-how and work, wherein the second rating is assigned to the interest area category corresponding to the know-how.