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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorJonathan F. Brunn
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A method for making group opportunity recommendations and reservations may include searching, by a processor, for an opportunity based on at least one shared interest of at least two members of a network. The method may also include transmitting, by the processor, the opportunity to the at least two members of the network in response to finding the opportunity based on the at least one shared interest. The method may further include providing, by the processor, a feature associated with the opportunity that allows each of the at least two members to accept the opportunity based on a condition. The condition may include at least one of accepting the opportunity by another of the at least two members, accepting the opportunity by at least one other designated member of the network, and accepting the opportunity by a preset number of the members of the network.
A method for making group opportunity recommendations and reservations, the method comprising:
The method of claim 10, wherein the at least one asymmetric opportunity comprises at least one of transportation originating in a different geographic location than the opportunity, transportation over a different route than the opportunity, a different fee structure from the opportunity, and a different accommodation than the opportunity.
The method of 1, further comprising generating a list of contacts in a social network with the at least one shared interest, the list of contacts with the at least one shared interest corresponding to members of the network with the at least one shared interest.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.