Patent ID: 8744956

Claim:
A system for electronically sharing credit data, the system comprising: a user data store configured to store information associated with a plurality of users, the information including connection information that indicates a connection established between a first user and each of two or more of the plurality of users; a credit data store configured to store credit data associated with each of a plurality of individuals, wherein the plurality of individuals includes the plurality of users; a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, said computing system configured to electronically communicate with the user data store and the credit data store, the computing system programmed via executable instructions to at least: generate a user interface for display, the user interface comprising information identifying at least a subset of the plurality of users for which a connection has been previously established with the first user based at least in part on the information stored in the user data store, the user interface further comprising an element configured to enable the first user to select at least one of the users of the subset in order to request sharing of credit data with the selected user; receive a credit data sharing request associated with a selection by the first user of at least one of the users for which a connection has been established with the first user, wherein the credit data sharing request includes information identifying the selected at least one user and information identifying credit data of the first user to be shared with the selected at least one user; provide an electronic notification to the selected at least one user indicating that credit data has been selected to be shared with the at least one user; receive a request from the at least one user to review the credit data that has been selected to be shared with the at least one user; and in response to the request: retrieve, from the credit data store, the credit data of the first user to be shared with the selected at least one user; and electronically provide the retrieved credit data of the first user to the at least one user.