Method and apparatus for internet-based human network brokering

32 The computer-implemented method of claim 31 wherein said profiles include some or all of an individual's capabilities, history, values, interests, style, goals, projects, human networks, contacts, profiles of said contacts, employment history, education history, organizational activities, organizations, profiles of said organizations, or compensation requirements.

The computer-implemented method of claim 45 wherein said relationship management agent is further configured to automatically organize said contacts into categories.

A computer network comprising:

• one or more clients configured with client applications, said client applications each configured to permit users thereof to initiate search queries for potential targets specified by profile criteria including some or all of an individual's capabilities, history, values, interests, style, goals, projects, human networks, contacts, profiles of said contacts, employment history, education history, organizational activities, organizations, profiles of said organizations, or compensation requirements;
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• one or more servers communicatively coupled to some or all of said clients and to one or more of each other, and some or all thereof including a network broker configured to autonomously search for matches between said search queries and said potential targets of said search queries by comparing search criteria specified in said search queries with said profile criteria describing said potential targets and reporting instances of acceptable correspondence between said search criteria and said profile criteria where access controls associated with said profile criteria of said potential targets permit said reporting in light of access levels assigned to said search inquiries.

A set of computer-readable instructions embodied within a computer-readable medium, said computer-readable instructions comprising a method of autonomously brokering matches between search queries and potential targets of said search queries by comparing search criteria specified in said search queries with profile criteria describing said potential targets and reporting instances of acceptable correspondence between said search criteria and said profile criteria provided that access controls associated with said profile criteria of said potential targets permit said reporting in light of access levels assigned to said search inquiries.