Facilitating Consumers to Connect with Suitable Providers on World Wide Web (WWW)
AssigneeChatvana LLC
InventorsJaihari Vethachalam Loganathan, Jeelani Mahaboob Syed
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Abstract
An aspect of the present invention provides a convenient mechanism for connecting consumers with providers. In an embodiment, a server system receives a search phrase from a consumer specifying a set of requirements, and identifies a suitable provider matching the requirements. The server system creates a chat room as a response to receiving the search query, and facilitates both of the provider and the consumer to participate in created chat room. As the chat room is created automatically without additional (i.e., other than receiving search phrase) interactions with the consumer, the provided interfaces are convenient.
Claims18
A method of connecting consumers with providers, said method being implemented in a server system, said method comprising:
- maintaining presence information indicating that a plurality of consumers and a plurality of providers are presently logged in to said server system;
- receiving a search phrase from a first consumer of said plurality of consumers, specifying a set of requirements;
- identifying a first provider of said plurality of providers matching said set of requirements;
- creating a chat room for said search query, as a response to receiving said search query;
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- facilitating both of said first provider and said first consumer to participate in said chat room.
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing one or more sequences of instructions for causing a server system to connect consumers with providers, wherein execution of said one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors contained in said server system causes said server system to perform the actions of:
- maintaining presence information indicating that a plurality of consumers and a plurality of providers are presently logged in to said server system;
- receiving a search phrase from a first consumer of said plurality of consumers, specifying a set of requirements;
- identifying a first provider of said plurality of providers matching said set of requirements;
- creating a chat room for said search query, as a response to receiving said search query;
- and
- facilitating both of said first provider and said first consumer to participate in said chat room.
A computing system comprising:
- a plurality of provider devices to facilitate a plurality of providers to provide corresponding offerings;
- a plurality of consumer devices to enable a plurality of consumers to connect with providers of desired offerings;
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- a server system operable to:
- maintain presence information indicating which ones of said plurality of consumers and said plurality of providers are presently logged in to said server system;
- receive a search phrase from a first consumer using a first consumer device, specifying a set of requirements, wherein said first consumer is contained in said plurality of consumers and said first consumer device is contained in said plurality of consumer devices;
- identify a first provider of said plurality of providers matching said set of requirements, said first provider using a first provider device of said plurality of provider devices;
- create a chat room for said search query, as a response to receiving said search query;
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- facilitate both of said first provider using said first provider device and said first consumer using said first consumer device to participate in said chat room.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.